I started a new site 10 days ago. As any other webmaster would do, I went to various "submit your site" websites and attempted to submit my website to the promised 100's of search engines.

I got confirmation for some... nothing for others.... eventually I got tired of it. Whenever I went to google or alexa and typed my url in, nothing happened.

So I went and did some snooping around, and found a way to submit my site and get it indexed very fast.

I read about this problem online and I found out it takes a few weeks before the bots from Google or Alexa get sent to your page to index it.

For google:

Go to http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl and submit your site url eg (http://www.onebillionviews.com)

Then go to www.google.com and search for your full url

You will get a message something like this : your search had no results ..try clicking on the link directly.. and wil provide you with your url as a link

Click on it

Wait an hour or so ... be patient :).

Then search for your url again on google and voila :).

Your site is indexed by google. It shows as the only result with your url (obviously) but it's a nice feeling.

For Alexa

Go to http://pages.alexa.com/associates/sitereport.html and submit your page url and email for review. A bot gets sent out to your url and looks at your content, your links and so on.

You'll get a report (usually within a day) on your email about your site (broken links, sites that link to yours).

And a week after, you'll see your ranking on Alexa (hence you'll be indexed too.)

I hope this article was helpful to you as it was helpful to me at the time!