How to Add an Address to Dogpile

Submiting a Web address to search engines feed Dogpile's search results.

Dogpile is what's known as a "metasearch engine." Unlike a traditional search engines, such as Google, metasearch engines don't use crawlers to gather direct information about the material published on the Web. Instead, metasearch engines work by passing a user's search query on to multiple traditional search engines then combine the results received from all these other sources into its own result listings. The Dogpile metasearch engine returns results from Google, Yahoo! and Bing. Therefore, the only way to add a Web address to the Dogpile metasearch engine is to submit the address to these other search engines.

Things You'll Need

• Internet access

Instructions

Submit a Single Web Address to Google

1. Go to the Google "Add URL to Google" webpage.

2. Enter the complete URL address in the "URL" box.

3. Complete the word challenge.

4. Click the "Add URL" button.

Submit a Single Web Address to Yahoo!

1. Go to the Yahoo! "Submit to Yahoo!" webpage.

2. Click the "Submit a website or Webpage" link.

3. Enter the complete URL address in the box. Click the "Submit URL" button.

Submit a Single Web Address to Bing

1. Go to the Bing "Submit Your Site to Bing" webpage.

2. Enter the complete URL address in the "Type the URL of your homepage" box.

3. Complete the word challenge.

4. Click the "Submit URL" button.

Submit a Sitemap to Google

1. Launch the computer's Web browser.

2. Type "http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=" in the address bar, followed immediately by the complete web address of the XML sitemap you'd like to submit to Google. For instance, if the sitemap you want to submit is located at http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml, type "http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.example.com/sitemap.xm" in the address bar.

3. Press "Enter."

Submit a Sitemap to Yahoo!

1. Launch the computer's browser.

2. Type "http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=" in the address bar, followed immediately by the complete Web address of the XML sitemap you'd like to submit to Yahoo! For instance, if the sitemap you want to submit is located at http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml, type "http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=YahooDemo&url=http://www.example.com/sitemap.xm" in the address bar.

3. Press "Enter."

Submit a Sitemap to Bing

1. Launch the computer's browser.

2. Type "http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=" in the address bar, followed immediately by the complete Web address of the XML sitemap you'd like to submit to Bing. For instance, if the sitemap you want to submit is located at http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml, type "http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.example.com/sitemap.xm" in the address bar.

3. Press "Enter."

References

• Bluefalconmarketing: Ping Sitemap

Resources

• Google: Add URL to Google
• Bing: Submit Your Site to Bing
• Yahoo: Submit to Yahoo!