Every website owner has that dream of seeing their website appearing in search results when they search for it in search engines. But most of them are green about how to submit the sites to search engines for visibility. Let us take you through a complete guide to submit your website to search engines.
What are Search Engines?Â
First things first, search engines refer to the mediums/platforms where one can go and type in their query on the internet and they get results. So, currently we have many search engines that include Google, Bing, Yahoo and many others.
Install the Required Plugins
In this case, you will have to go to your WordPress dashboard and install an SEO plugin called Yoast or Rank Math or All in One SEO or even your plugin of your choice. This will help you to run the first tests to see how compatible your website is.
Again, this is where the codes that you will feed in the root directory of the website will come from, as all those search engines are always configured there within.
Install Site Kit or Monster Insights
Site Kit or Monster Insights are tools used to display the traffic that comes to you website, these pick data from Google Analytics which measures all types of traffic that goes to the site. This will help you to understand that your website picks traffic and is well monitored.
Search Console
Then you have a task of opening a search console account under the email that is associated to your website. You will have to then go back to Yoast under Site Features and extract the what we call sitemaps. Under the XML Sitemaps.
Submit sitemaps
Go back to your Yoast dashboard and check for search engines on the list and past them one by one as you confirm whether they have worked. After this, your search console will have started to pick your website traffic as displayed in Google analytics.
After all that is done, go back to the website and open a new tab, type in your domain and search for your website. When you see that Analytics has picked you as a visitor, just know you are all set to roll. For Search Console, Site Kit, Monster Insights they start picking figures after 48 hours at least.
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And by the end of a few days, you will notice that your website appears in search engines when only its name is typed in them and you will be good to go now.
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