Getting Internet Traffic 1 : Submitting Your URL

Have you tried searching for your own site/blog using the various search engine such as Google, MSN Live, Yahoo etc. and found that some of the search engine didn't even have your site URL (Uniform Resource Locator,a text-based address used to identify specific resources on the Internet, such as web pages. - or in short, your website address) in the search result? Well, this is because your site's URL is not even in their database!

For any website to survive, it must have internet traffic. Internet traffic is a term used to describe how much visitors a site received daily. There are a lot of advantageous of having a high internet traffic. With more visitors, the chances of them clicking on the Adsense advertisements will be higher, which means you will get more money! In addition, Pay Per Post will be paying you more for each post you make about the advertisers, as you command high internet traffic. In addition, you can get more referrals for the various Paid-To-Click (PTC) or Paid-To-Do (PTD)

But before all these, you will have to make sure that the various major search engines out there has your website address in their database. If someone search for your site at search engine and no result appear, your site doesn't exits. Basically, each search engine will have it's own bot and it will crawl through the internet to update the website it's database and at the same time identify new websites so as to include them into it. However, it might take a long time before they even crawl through your site. To facilitate the process, you can take the first step by submitting your site's URL to them for them to crawl.

Below is a list of websites I compounded for your convenience, where you can submit your site's URL to the various search engines database and website directory - it is very easy and most importantly, it is absolutely free. All you need is to key in your site's URL (for example, this blog URL is http://deltaswat.blogspot.com) and your email address (some site requires you to verify your email address to avoid bots from clogging up their services).

1. Submit Express
2. Google's Add URL
3. Yahoo's Site Explorer
   
4. Scrub The Web
5. Official Search
6. Infotiger
7. Free Submit Website URL
8. Aesop
9. Websquash
10. Alexa
11. Exact Seek
• Create a free account before submitting your URL.
12. @Submit
• Instantly submit your URL to six different search engines. (Remember to deselect those search engine you have already submitted before committing a multi-submission, it will result you in being banned from the respective search engine!)
  

Some websites serve as a website directory, where they list down all the website and group them according to the relevant categories (foe example, this blog could be under blog > money & finance). Do take some time to add your site URL to these directories too. It can increase your website backlink (I will explain this term on my next post, stay tune).

1. Add URL
2. Add Site Link
3. URL Web Directory
   
• Search for the relevant categories first before clicking on 'Submit URL' on the right of the page.
4. Open Directory Project
• Search for the relevant categories first before clicking on 'Submit URL' on the right of the page.
5. TWB Directory
• Search for the relevant categories first before submitting your URL.
6. PooZL
• Search for the relevant categories first before submitting your URL.
  
7. iWebTool
• Register a free account before submitting
8. Hitalyzer (Submit site - web site promotion )
   
• Options to choose whether your URL will appear worldwide or only at selected country

I spend an entire day hunting down all these free website. Hope you will find it useful and have more traffic to your site and earn more money from it!