Sesudah menerbitkan content pertama di website Anda, segera lakukan submit ke Search Engine. Karena search engine menjadi sumber utama traffic. Jika ada rencana ikut program PPC (Pay Per Click, seperti Google Adsense, ketahuilah pengunjung via mesin pencari adalah pengunjung berkualitas dan berpeluang lebih besar melakukan klik.
Submit website dan blog
Lakukan submit secara berkala, misalnya sebulan sekali tetapi jangan terlalu sering sebab beresiko dianggap spam. Awali submit blog ke search engine utama seperti Google, Yahoo dan MSN baru kemudian ke search engine lain. Bagaimana caranya?
A. Submit website di Google
- Buka http://www.google.com/addurl
- Isikan data pada formulirnya
- URL --> isikan URL blog. Misalnya http://breakdown-free-cover.blogspot.com
- Comments --> isikan KEYWORD blog
- Optional -–> isikan code yang tertulis pada kotak yang tersedia
- Klik Add URL
- Jika semua langkah benar, akan diakhiri dengan :
Thank you, Your site URL has been succesfully added to our list of URLs to crawl
B. Submit blog atau Website di Yahoo
- Kunjungi : https//siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit (tidak bisa akses!) Penggantinya kunjungi : http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html lalu klik link “Submit Your Site for free”
- Klik Submit website (webpage), input URL blog, eg. http://breakdown-cover-cheap.blogspot.com/
- Klik Submit URL
- Klik My Site pada menu di kolom kiri untuk melihat status website
- Klik kotak status warna kuning di website bersangkutan, muncul jendela ini :
Authentication - http://breakdown-cover-cheap.blogspot.com
To authenticate your site ownership, you can either add a META tag to your homepage, or upload a verification file to your site, follow the instructions below!.
How would you like to authenticate your website?
- Alternative A : by uploading a verification file to my site.
- Download an authentication key (DO NOT change the file name or content):
If you have a problem with downloading the authentication key,
please create a text file named y_key_4fbd15660b71920b.html, and put the string 7f6ea61e4ab77b92 into the file.
- Upload the verification file to your site.
Please upload the key file that you downloaded, or created yourself, at the root level of your site directory. The expected file path is :
http//breakdown-cover-cheap.blogspot.com/y_key_4fbd15660b71920b.html.
- When the file is uploaded, please click the button below to let us know that the authentication key is in place. We will authenticate your site within 24 hours.
Ready to Authenticate
- Download an authentication key (DO NOT change the file name or content):
- Alternative B : by adding a META tag to my homepage.
- Copy the META tag listed below and paste it in your site's homepage :
<META name="y_key" content="7f6ea61e4ab77b92" />
The META tag must be within and near the beginning of the first <HEAD> section of the page and before the first <BODY> section.
- Copy the META tag listed below and paste it in your site's homepage :
When the META tag is added, please click the button below to let us know that the META tag is in place. We will authenticate your site within 24 hours.
Ready to Authenticate
Misalnya Anda pilih alternatif B :
Ready to Authenticate
Misalnya Anda pilih alternatif B :
- Copi tag ini <META name="y_key" content="7f6ea61e4ab77b92" />
- Kemudian PASTE pada halaman EDIT HTML website Anda di 2 tempat yaitu :
[1] persis di bawah <head> dan
[2] persis diatas </head>
[2] persis diatas </head>
Atau diilustrasikan seperti dibawah ini :
<head>
<META name="y_key" content="7f6ea61e4ab77b92" />
;;;;
;;;;
<META name="y_key" content="7f6ea61e4ab77b92" />
</head>
<META name="y_key" content="7f6ea61e4ab77b92" />
;;;;
;;;;
<META name="y_key" content="7f6ea61e4ab77b92" />
</head>
Lalu SAVE untuk memastikan META Tag ditempatkan pada file HTML website Anda.
Terakhir Klik link Ready to Authenticate.
Untuk memeriksa status aktive website pada Search Engine Yahoo. Klik My Sites pada menu di kolom kiri halaman Yahoo Sites Explorer.
C. Submit blog atau website di MSN / Bing
- Masuk ke situs http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSDD2
- Isikan text sesuai karakter disediakan
- Masukkan URL Blog misal : yogya-batik.blogspot.com/ ATAU http://yogya-batik.blogspot.com/
- Klik Submit URL -----> Selesai
Atau submit ke berbagai SEARCH ENGINE UTAMA melalui http://www.submitstart.com/
That's all we know