How to Submit a Web Page to Dogpile

The Dogpile search engine (dogpile.com) was created by Infospace using Metasearch technology. Dogpile organizes and presents the best results from different search engines such as Google, Bing, Ask and Yahoo!. Many users find that they receive better results than they would by visiting any of the component search engines individually. There is no direct method of submitting a Web page to Dogpile, as its results are based on the results of others search engines. In order to appear within Dogpile search results, a website must be indexed by one or more of the component search engines.

Things You'll Need

• Website for indexing
• Sitemap
• Predefined keywords

Instructions

Submit a Web Page to Google

1. Go to http://www.google.com/addurl/. Google typically adds and updates websites by crawling the web, but does allow webmasters to submit the URL of a top-level page to help trigger the "Googlebot."

2. Enter the top-level URL of your web page in the appropriate field.

3. Enter comments or keywords to describe your Web page in the appropriate field.

4. Enter the text of the "captcha" picture to complete the process.

Submit a Web Page to Bing

1. Go to http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx. Like Google, Microsoft's Bing search engine relies on a web crawler (MSNBot) to find and index pages on the Internet.

2. Enter the top-level URL of your web page in the appropriate field.

3. Enter the text of the "captcha" picture to complete the process.

Submit a Web Page to Yahoo!

1. Go to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit/ if your website is missing from the Yahoo! search index.

2. Log in with a Yahoo! ID.

3. Enter the top-level URL of your web page in the appropriate field; the Yahoo! crawler will automatically drill down through your website's structure.

4. Enter the URL, if applicable, for any appropriate RSS, Sitemaps or Atom feed in the separate field on the submission page.

Submit a Web Page to Ask.com

1. Follow the open-source Sitemaps protocol when developing your website. Ask advises that this is the only way to help ensure that you are indexed. The Ask search engine relies entirely on its Ask crawler and does not provide a direct procedure for submitting a URL.

2. Add your sitemap auto-discovery directive to robots.txt.

3. Submit your sitemap directly via the ping URL:

   http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A//www.the URL of your sitemap here.xml

Tips & Warnings

• All major search engines expressly state that submission does not guarantee the indexing of URLs.

• Likewise, Dogpile does not guarantee the indexing of all websites returned from its component search engines.

References

• About Dogpile
• Add Your URL to Google
• How to Submit a Website to Yahoo! Search

Resources

• Dogpile Web Search
• The Infospace Community