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How to Submit Journal Index Articles

Like the saying, "all roads lead to Rome," ideally you want all complementary links--or roads--on the web to lead to your article. You therefore need to submit your journal article to all the main search engines, directories and free-for-all links. You can accomplish this by either submitting each page manually to each search engine via that search engine's submission page, or you can use an open-source automatic submission tool to save time and enable you to submit your site to hundreds of search engines and directories.

Things You'll Need

  • Automatic submission tool software
  • Computer
  • Unique domain name
  • Unique URL address
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Instructions

    • 1
      Free automatic submission software is available at Queen's University Library.

      Manually submit your home and hallway pages (the pages that are links to all your site pages), or use an open-source automated submission software tool (available at Queen's University Library in the Reference section) to all the major search engines like Google, Infoseek and Lycos, as well as magazine and journal directories.

    • 2

      Submit your article manually to each individual search engine, like Lycos or the Open Directory Project, by visiting their respective submission pages and submitting your home page. Please refer to resources 2 and 3. If using an automatic submission tool, submit your home page simultaneously to as many search engines at a time as the software you chose will allow.

    • 3

      If submitting manually, wait 30 minutes after submitting the home page to a search engine, and then submit the first hallway page. If using automatic submission software, submit the first hallway page to the search engines to which you submitted your home page.

    • 4

      If submitting manually, wait another 30 minutes, and submit a second hallway page. If using an automated software application, submit the second hallway page to all of the search engines that the program allows simultaneously.

    • 5

      Re-submit all of your home and hallway pages to all the major search engines once a month to ensure that they remain indexed.

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