How to Add My Domain Name to the Dogpile Search Engine

Adding your website's domain name to Dogpile involves submitting the site to other search engines.

The Dogpile search engine is what is known as a “meta search engine.” The search results generated by meta search engines come from other search engines. Typically, with a basic search engine, such as Google, a webmaster submits her website's domain name to the search engine, then the search engine sends its “spiders” to crawl the site’s pages for information about the website’s content. With a meta search engine like Dogpile, however, the only way to add your domain name to Dogpile’s search results is to submit your site to the basic search engines that Dogpile draws its results from.

Instructions

1. Submit the website’s domain name to Google. See the Resources section of this article to go to Google’s URL submission page. Type your website’s complete homepage web address (including the prefix protocol, such as “http://”) in the URL box. Complete the word challenge. Click the “Add URL” button. Google is one of the search engines that Dogpile draws its results from.

2. Submit your website’s domain name to Yahoo! See the Resources section of this article to go to Yahoo’s “Submit Your Site” web page. Click on the “Submit a Website or Webpage” link. Type your website’s complete homepage web address (including the prefix protocol) in the "Submit URL" box. Click the “Submit URL” button. Yahoo! is also one of the search engines that Dogpile draws its results from.

3. Submit your website’s domain name to Bing. See the Resources section of this article to go to Bing’s “Submit your site to Bing” web page. Type your website’s complete homepage web address (including the prefix protocol) in the box located directly beneath the instruction to “Type the URL of your homepage.” Complete the word challenge. Click the "Submit URL” button. Bing is yet another one of the search engines that Dogpile draws its results from.

4. Build up links to your website. Dogpile search results are also drawn from the Ask search engine. Ask does not have a URL submission page. Ask spiders automatically crawl the web, finding new websites by following links from other websites. Therefore, the more external links you have on other websites pointing to your website, the greater your chances of Ask spiders finding your website and by extension, being included in Dogpile search results.

Tips & Warnings

• Your website may already be showing up in Dogpile search results but at a low ranking. If you want to check if Dogpile is registering your site, use the “site” operator in the Dogpile search box. Go to the Dogpile website. Type “site:” (without the quotes) followed by your website’s domain name. For example, site:example.com. Click “Go Fetch.”

References

• Dogpile: FAQs
• Dogpile: About Us
• Search Engine Watch: Submitting To Search Crawlers

Resources

• Google: Submit URL
• Yahoo: Submit URL
• Bing: Submit URL