Adding your site through Google's "Add Site" Page

... what did you write in the "Comments" box?

[internetheaven]

I came across the Google Add your Site page today, haven't seen it in almost a year now. Just out of pure curiosity, what did you lot actually put in the "Comments" box?

[webdoctor]

Did anyone here actually submit their site to Google?

Or to ANY search engine?

I thought the "submit your site to 10,000 search engines" rubbish was dead and buried... :-)

How about getting some good inbound links, and let the spiders find you that way?

[ska_demon]

I always put 'Thanks' in the comment box. You never know who might read it and a Thank You is always nice.

Ska

[rainborick]

Google's addurl does still generate a crawl. A new site still won't stay in the index for more than a couple of days from just this submission without a link out there somewhere. But I also use it sometimes when a client has the www. problem, or if an important interior page has fallen out of the index and I need it back before the normal crawl cycle might find it again.

[SniperRyan]

I use it when we update one of our more obscure pages, or if we get a new article published somewhere.

I usually write something like, "Noticed this wasn't in your index. Have a nice day."

As ska_demon said, you never know who's reading.

[internetheaven]

I thought the "submit your site to 10,000 search engines" rubbish was dead and buried... :-)

Google's addurl does still generate a crawl. A new site still won't stay in the index for more than a couple of days from just this submission without a link out there somewhere.

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! This supposed to be a friendly little bit of banter about the comments people have put into the "Comments" box. I wasn't arguing the merits of submitting your URL to Google. I just had a mild case of curiosity after seeing the page again and I just wondered WHY Google has a comments box? I always just used to put "Well, I think its a great site". I wondered what others put or even if there were some sort of guidelines established by Google but that I've never read.

[abates]

The one time I used it was when a couple of my index pages had disappeared from their index, and I put something to that effect in the comment box: "index page disappeared from index".

A day or so later the missing pages were back. :)

[mirrornl]

"ty"