Editing Promote your websites (section)

== how search engine discovers your website ==
=== submit the website URL ===
Submit your URL to the search engines/登錄您的網址
* G! [http://www.google.com/intl/en/submit_content.html Submit your content to Google]([http://www.google.com.tw/addurl/?hl=zh-TW&continue=/addurl 中文Google]):  [http://www.google.com/webmasters/index.html Google Information for Webmasters] (last visited: February 7, 2006)
* MS: [http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WHWL Live Search URL Submission]

''Offline!''
* Yam & 
* Hinet: [http://reg.yam.com/register/register.asp 登錄網站]; 
* Y! [http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html Yahoo! Submit Your Site]/[http://tw.search.yahoo.com/free/submit?t=&fr=fp-tab-web-t Yahoo!奇摩]) was replaced with Bing.
* [http://www.dmoz.org/docs/en/add.html Submitting a Site to The Open Directory Project]

=== submit the sitemap ===
Submit the [http://www.sitemaps.org/ sitemap] file ([http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40318 About Sitemaps])
* G! [https://www.google.com/webmasters/ Google Search Console]([http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8476 Documentations]) -  Improve the visibility of your URLs on Google ex: [[Google Sitemap Template for MovableType]]
* MS: [http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmasters/ Bing™ webmaster tools] - formely [http://webmaster.live.com/ Live Search Webmaster Portal]([http://forums.microsoft.com/webmaster/default.aspx?siteid=79 Forum], [http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/ Blog], [http://help.live.com/help.aspx?mkt=en-us&project=wl_webmasters FAQ])
* Y! 
** Replace with Bing
** ''offline!'' [https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites Yahoo! Site Explorer]
* [http://www.sitemapwriter.com/notify.php Submit Sitemap to Google, Yahoo, Ask]
* [http://sitemap.baidu.com/ 百度站长平台]
* [http://zhanzhang.sogou.com/ 搜狗站长平台]


tell the search engine not to index ... [[Robots.txt]]
* [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40360 Creating a robots.txt file] or 
* [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93710 Using meta tags to block access to your site]

=== syndications ===
* Submit the site content to the [[RSS Server Side Aggregator]]


=== check the indexing status ===
* Using [https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=zh-TW Google Search Console]
* the same domain: Google search parameter site:{domain} ([http://www.google.com.tw/search?complete=1&hl=zh-TW&rls=GGGL%2CGGGL%3A2006-27%2CGGGL%3Azh-TW&q=+site%3Awiki.planetoid.info&meta=&aq=t ex])
* different domains: [[Backwards Links]]