Interestingly, there are only three (3) search engines you can add a website. The rest of the upcoming search engines pull from one or more of these main search engines.
Quick Check If Indexed Links
You can find the most up to date market shares over at statcounter.
Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Search Engine Market Share
Google Search
~91.8% Market Share
How To Add Your Website/Business To Google Search
You will need to sign in with your Google Account and head over to Google Search Console.
How To Check If Indexed On Google Search
Use the site: filter option with your domain name. In the example below, replace example.com with your website domain.
Domain Search URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:example.com
Google Alerts
Get an email every time new pages are indexed in Google. Read more on setting up your Google Alerts.
Bing Search
~2.7% Market Share
How To Add Your Website/Business To Bing Search
You will need to head over to Bing Webmaster Tools and create an account with Microsoft (3rd party logins allowed).
How To Check If Indexed On Bing Search
Use the site: filter option with your domain name. In the example below, replace example.com with your website domain.
Domain Search URL: https://www.bing.com/search?q=site:example.com
Yahoo!
~1.8% Market Share
How To Add Your Website/Business To Yahoo!
To submit your site to Yahoo, you don’t need to do anything.
Yahoo is powered by Bing’s index, so by submitting to Bing, your site will automatically be submitted to Yahoo.
How To Check If Indexed On Yahoo!
Use the site: filter option with your domain name. In the example below, replace example.com with your website domain.
Domain Search URL: https://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site:example.com
Baidu
~1.1% Market Share
How To Add Your Website/Business To Baidu
Both the opening of a Baidu Webmaster Tool account and the submission of a website can be done only in Chinese as there is not an option to change the language. However, this is not the main problem. Since June 1, 2017, the “Internet Security Law of the People’s Republic of China” doesn’t allow you to register an account unless you have a Chinese mobile number. You can no longer use your email to register on Baidu.
Create an account with Baidu then head over to https://ziyuan.baidu.com/linksubmit/url to submit your website.
You could also look into Shenma, 360 Search, and Sogou.
How To Check If Indexed On Baidu
Use the site: filter option with your domain name. In the example below, replace example.com with your website domain.
Domain Search URL: https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=site:example.com
Yandex
~0.5% Market Share
How To Add Your Website/Business To Yandex
Head to webmaster.yandex.com, where you can create an account manually or with a number of third party authentication services.
How To Check If Indexed On Yandex
Use the site: filter option with your domain name. In the example below, replace example.com with your website domain.
Domain Search URL: https://yandex.com/search/?text=site:example.com
Duck Duck Go
~0.4% Market Share
How To Add Your Website/Business To Duck Duck Go
There is no need to submit your site to DDG also there is no way to submit, as DDG automatically indexes your site form other search engines like Bing and Yandex.
How To Check If Indexed On Duck Duck Go
Use the site: filter option with your domain name. In the example below, replace example.com with your website domain.
Domain Search URL: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site:example.com
Searx
How To Add Your Website/business To Searx
Searx is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. Additionally, searx can be used over Tor for online anonymity.
Read more: https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/
Qwant
How To Add Your Website/Business To Qwant
Each day, Qwant’s web crawlers browse millions of pages on the Internet to index and automatically update its knowledge of the web. Your new website should therefore be naturally listed after a few days or a few weeks.
Read more: https://help.qwant.com/help/qwant-search/how-to-get-my-website-listed-on-qwant/
How To Check If Indexed On Qwant
Use the site: filter option with your domain name. In the example below, replace example.com with your website domain.
Domain Search URL: https://www.qwant.com/?q=site:example.com
StartPage
How To Add Your Website/Business To StartPage
Unfortunately, you can’t “submit” a website to Startpage directly, since StartPage do not maintain their own database of websites. StartPage do not index any websites themselves. Instead, StartPage submit search queries to Google and provide direct Google results to StartPage’s users privately. StartPage do not and cannot manipulate the final results we receive from Google in any way.
Adding Verification Codes to WordPress
Your SEO plugins should have an area for you enter in the verification strings to verify you own the website.
If not, add this code to your functions.php file in your theme editor:
function search_engine_meta_tags() {
echo '<meta name="yandex-verification" content="YOUR YANDEX CODE HERE" />';
echo '<meta name="msvalidate.01" content="YOUR BING CODE HERE" />';
echo '<meta name="google-site-verification" content="YOUR GOOGLE CODE HERE" />';
}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'search_engine_meta_tags' );
Be sure to replace YOUR CODE HERE with the correct codes.
After adding this code, you should clear your websites cache if you have it setup.
Facebook has a Webmaster Area?
Yes, and is for brand safety within Facebook.
“Facebook’s webmaster tool is designed to give domain owners greater transparency and technical control of links shared from their domain.“
Read More on Facebook’s Webmaster tools.
“… they’re often talking about preventing their ads from appearing within or alongside content that is not conducive to their brand…”
Read more on Facebook’s Brand Safety.
You can verify your domain here: https://business.facebook.com/settings/owned-domains/
And once verified, your webmaster tools open up here: https://developers.facebook.com/webmaster/
Adding Your Business To More locations
You can also expand your reach by adding your business to various online maps!
Read more at Adding Your Business To Maps.
