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Submission Wizard
Please read the Submission rules and frequently asked questions BEFORE submitting your site. The information in these sections may prevent your site from being banned from the search engines.
To start the submission wizard, click the Wizard button on the toolbar. You can also start the Wizard via the Window menu.
- Enter a URL
Enter the URL to submit.
Most engines specifically request that only the index page of the site is submitted. eg. http://www.example.com
Submitting multiple pages from the same URL is regarded as spamming the search engines.
For example, http://www.example.com/page1.html, http://www.example.com/page2.html, http://www.example.com/page3.html etc
The search engines will spider (crawl through all the pages on your site) and index the pages automatically.
To add the URL to the current project, select the first option.
To create a new project, select the second option.
Click the Next button to continue.
- Enter the URL details
Enter the URL title, brief description and long description.
To import this information from a URL's meta tags, click the Import button and enter the URL to import from.
- The title should be a brief one line description that summarizes the page or its content. Avoid using the URL or keywords as a title.
- The brief description should be a one line description (250 chars or less) that summarizes the page or its content.
- The long description should be a longer description (500 chars or less) that summarizes the page or its content.
For a description of each field, see the URL details section.
Click the Next button to continue.
- Enter site and login details
Select a site type from the list.
- Select Commercial if your site is business related or is selling or promoting a product and/or service.
- If your site is not commercial in nature, select the non-commercial option.
- If your site is promoting MLM (Multi level marketing - also known as network marketing) select the MLM option.
- If your site is gambling related i.e. casino, bots, online gambling, gambling tips, betting etc. select the Gambling option
- If your site is adult related i.e. sex, nudity, pornography, promoting adult products and/or services etc. select the Adult option.
Select the main language used on the site from the language field.
Enter a username and password for your submission. Some engines require this information and it can be used to edit a listing on a search engine at a later date.
Click the Next button to continue.
- Enter keywords for the URL
Enter up to 15 keywords, with the most important keywords listed first.
To import keywords from a URL's meta tags, click the Import button and enter a URL.
Click the Next button to continue.
- Enter submission email address(es)
Enter a valid email address in the Email field.
Most engines require an email address to be entered as a requirement of submission. The email address may appear in the listing on some directories. An invalid email address may result in the site not being indexed. We recommend creating a yahoo, hotmail, gmail or other free web based email account for use with submissions. Some engines send a confirmation email, and if a response is not received, then your site will not be listed.
You may use a different email address for the engines that send confirmation emails. Enter the email address in the Confirmation email field. Even if a confirmations email is entered, it is advisable to check both emails accounts to ensure that any stray confirmation emails are replied to.
Click the Next button to continue.
- Select a category
Select the most appropriate category for your site. A brief description of each category along with category selection guidelines is available in the category description section of the manual.
The most relevant category should be listed first, as this category will be used for submissions. If an engine does not accept submissions in the top category, the next category in the list will be used, and so on.
Click the Next button to continue.
- Enter contact details
Enter the contact details for your submission. Some directories will display this information in your listing. Compulsory fields are listed in red.
Click the Next button to continue.
- Select engines for submission
Select the engines to submit your site to. To submit to all the available engines, click the Select All button.
Tick the "show FFA link sites" to display the FFA/link list sites. This option is not recommended. A link list (or Free For All) is a web page that contains a list of links to web sites. The link list can hold a specific number of links. When this limit is reached and a new link is submitted, the oldest link drops off the list. In return for listing your link, the link list owner will send advertising emails promoting their products/services to your email address.
Click the Next button to continue.
- Acceptable use policy
The acceptable use policy will then be displayed. Please take the time to read this, as improper use of SubmitWolf may result in your licence being suspended.
Click the OK button to continue or cancel to revise the submission.
- Spam warning
If you have selected engines that send a large number of emails to the submission address, the spam warning will be displayed.
Click the Cancel button to go back and change the engine selection. Click the OK button to continue with the submission.
- License and engine update check
SubmitWolf will then contact the upgrade server to check that the latest engine updates have been installed.
If you are using the non enterprise version of SubmitWolf you will be prompted to use one of the domain licences for the submission. You can use up to 5 different domains with the non enterprise version.
- Submission complete!
SubmitWolf will submit your site, and display the connection status window. For more information about this window, see the Connection status section of the manual.
After submission, SubmitWolf will display selection of submission reports that you can view.
- Submission results - displays the engine list with the submission date, number of submissions and submission status fields e.g. submitted, failed, skipped etc.
- Report - displays custom report builder with the options of displaying the submission details, submitted engine status, and/or the full engine report.
Select the reports to view, then click the Finish button. The report details are described in the Reporting and maintenance section of the manual.
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