I am trying to submit a new url to Google, but after I press "Add Url", it only takes me to a blank white page.. Any idea whats wrong?
Maybe disabled since submitting your site to Google doesnt do much. *edit I just tried it and it didnt give me a blank screen though. Are you using http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl ?
You dont want to submit to them unless you have no other site to link to you. Submitting tends to take a while and generally throws you right in the sandbox
I tried submiting digitalpoint, google, yahoo, godaddy and many popular urls but still, same white blank page. Maybe its my browser?
Yeah, its my browser. I was using IE on my other computer then I download firefox, its fine now. Thanks.
Do you have any proof of your sandbox statement or are you just guessing based on what people are saying?
It would be weird if submitting your URL would lead to the sandbox *effect* (as there really is no true sandbox), as that would mean google would penalize for using a form they put there in the first place. However, if you have to submit your URL to get listed you won't be high in the serps anyway, so why bother.
Actually submitting to google is not a big deal, since google is a crawler base search engines. So, even if you submit your site but their crawler does not pickup your site you won't be indexed. Submit you site to some human based search engines like ask jeeves or DMOZ and google will list your site(depending on your content) eventually. After you get listed by google you will get listed by other search enginse too like MSN, Yahoo, Lycos, ,Altavista, Metacrawlers and so on.