Howto Make the Search Engine Searches You

Here's the instruction on how to submit your websites to the popular search engines.

Microsoft Bing
Get your Windows Live ID ready, and visit to this site:

• http://www.bing.com/webmaster/WebmasterAddSitesPage.aspx
• Fill out your website’s complete URL
• (Optionally) Insert the your sitemap URL in second line.
• Finally, input email and select if you want news updates for webmasters.

Google
Same here, visit to this site:

• http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
• Log in with your Google ID.
• Enter your site’s URL address
• You may also add a site map and get it verified. This involves adding some code to your site to confirm the ownership.

Have you submitted your blog or website to these or other search engines? Which has brought you the best results? Share them with us in the comments!

Reverse Lookup with Bing

I learn this unique feature at Microsoft latest search engine, Bing.

You may perform reverse lookup with an IP address for a main site and generate a list of sub-site with Bing search engine.

For example, you enter "ip:216.34.181.45" (without the quote). This is the IP address for SlashDot main. It will results in 310,000 answers with a list of sub-site that hosting at the same public IP address.

This is a great feature as it can allow a pentester to find out how many websites are hosted at one particular IP address during reconnaissance. Cool!