Is submitting your site to yahoo & Google still relevant

[Nightwing]

Good Morning from Sh@t its still raining wetherby UK...

I want to just make sure the process i go through when a new site is launched is nort overlooking some fundamentals.

Most sites we launch are not brand new, do allready have a link heritage and have been indexed by Google. With that in mid i do not submit a sites url thru the following links:

www.google.com/addurl
search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx

Am i right in saying you should really only bother with this if the site a newbie ie no history no link heritage and the site is enering cyberspace for the forst time.

And i wonder if for example you launched a new site made sure the xml site map was in place and it had a few inbound links anyway it would be indexed anyway.

So is the practice of submitting your url to search engined relevant anymore?

Any insights welcome

[intSchools]

It is not necessary for you to add your URL to these sites unless you have ZERO links - even then it isn't a guarantee. If you have even just a few inbound links then the search engine bots will crawl and index your site.

In regards to how long that will take - it depends on the inbound links. If they are from large sites that get updated regularly then chances are the bots will crawl your site relatively quickly.

Hope this helps!

[Nightwing]

Brill thanks

[intSchools]

No worries!

[nurzhyk]

Another possible way is adding your site in Google Webmaster Tools and submit your sitemap.xml in Optimization->Sitemaps section. You will see count of submitted urls and indexed urls.