WorldSubmitter Info
World Submitter is SBI!'s automated system that submits your pages to all of the major Search Engines. It then monitors them at the Search Engines and reports the results to you here in the Search Engine HQ.
There's only one action that you must do...
Ping the engines with your sitemap URL, or submit the URL manually to the engines.
If you haven't done this yet, do so now. Click here for the easy step-by-step process, which should only take a few of minutes to complete. This is very important.
Pinging and/or submitting does not guarantee, of course, that you'll rank highly with the engines. Make sure that you use Analyze It! while building your pages to help you score as highly as possible for each page's specific Keyword.
What Does World Submitter Do?
Most of the benefit of Search Engine submitting, tracking, and reporting comes from four global engines that provide their own crawler-based technology (Google, Yahoo!, Bing (Live Search) and Ask). So SBI! reports on the status of your pages at these engines in three major reports in the Search Engine HQ.
WorldSubmitter creates a sitemap XML file. It contains a list of all your site's pages. Once you ping or manually submit the sitemap URL to the major engines (which you just did -- if you haven't yet, click here to do it now), the spiders visit the file regularly to learn about changes to your site (new pages, modified pages, and deleted pages) and take this information back to the Search Engines.
The information is used to tell the spiders whether to visit your pages, and which pages to visit (ex., new pages not already spidered). These visits are listed in the Submit-Spider-List Report in the Search Engine HQ. You can get this report at any time, for any page, simply by clicking on the desired page in the Page Name column in the large table in the SE HQ.
No need to worry about "over-submitting" by accident. You can edit and re-build your page 100 times per day, if you like. WorldSubmitter updates your sitemap file once a day. And it also "pings" each engine to let it know about the update.
When WorldSubmitter updates the sitemap file for each page that you add or edit, it enters the date into the Date Submitted column of the Submit-Spider-List Report. That way, you know each page is in the file, ready for all spiders to notice it.
You can even use WorldSubmitter, through Priority Build It!, to adjust the sitemap file to inform the Search Engines which pages are more important relative to all the other pages on your site. Click here for more information.
The date of submission that you see in the Submit-Spider-List Report is always the date of the most recent change to the sitemap file, for that page.
What about reporting on the spiders and listing?
SpiderWatcher checks your site's log files regularly, looking to see which of the major engines' spiders have visited, and which of your pages they "took back to their mother ships."
Once SpiderWatcher spots a bot in your log files, it enters the date that the engine visited that page into the Date Spidered column of the Submit-Spider-List Report. It does this for the four major engines.
So you will know which engines are noticing you. This is very important news. Next...
After a page is spidered by an engine, ListChecker starts checking with that engine every ten days or so (not too often -- don't want to upset the engines!). It verifies if the page is in the database yet. When it is, it reports the date that it found the page listed.
ListChecker searches in large batches to a maximum of 300 pages listed in each engine (rather than one by one, which would increase the load on each engine unfairly). So it will report many pages as listed on the same date -- that really means the date that SBI! noticed your pages as being listed or dropped, which is more than accurate enough for its purpose.
In all cases, the dates reported for submissions, spidering, and listing are always the most recent date for each. So, if a spider revisits at a later date, SpiderWatcher will report that latest date, overwriting the previous one.
Back to checking when your page gets listed...
ListChecker watches for when each engine lists each of your pages (that have been spidered) -- or in the words of the pros, when you have been "indexed." At this point, the pages are officially in the engine's database, but not necessarily yet ranked. When it can find your URL in the index of an engine, it reports the date that it found it in the Date Listed column of the Submit-Spider-List Report.
The date does not change unless the page is dropped, at which time you'll see a Dropped link. That date will remain the same until the page is relisted, when you'll see the date the page was dropped and the date the page was relisted.
Bottom line? You have nothing to do after you submit your sitemap to the Search Engines. SBI! takes care of all the tedious, complicated stuff.
Pinging and submitting does not guarantee that you'll rank highly with the engines. Use Analyze It! to help you score as highly as possible for each page's Specific Keyword, at as many engines as possible.
If Google never lists any of your pages, there may be another issue. Check Wayback Machine to see if your domain name has ever been used before you registered it. If it has, use Google Webmaster Tools to "Request reconsideration" to let them know that you now have the domain name and to remove any ban that they may have on the domain name. Be absolutely certain that you have a great site with no broken links before you do that, or you may waste your one chance to get listed.
If you're the first to use your domain name, continue to add more content to your site. Eventually, Google will index your pages.