How to submit your startup website with Submit Express
TL;DR
Submit Express is a US search marketing agency that keeps a free website submission form online and promises to send your URL to "70+ top search engines". The form is free, but it asks for your name, email, business phone and country, and the engines it names are small or long closed. For Google and Bing, the free Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools do far more.
What is Submit Express?
Submit Express sells SEO, Google Ads, link building and reputation management. Its free submission tool works as a lead form for the agency. The footer reads © 2026 and the latest blog post is dated 19 January 2026, so the company and the form are still online.
What does "submitting to search engines" mean in 2026?
Twenty years ago, engines had public "Add URL" forms. Today, Google finds pages by crawling links, reading your XML sitemap and through Google Search Console, where you submit a sitemap and request indexing for single URLs. In 2023 Google switched off its anonymous sitemap ping endpoint, because most of those unauthenticated submissions were spam. Bing works the same way through Bing Webmaster Tools and accepts IndexNow pings for new URLs. Both consoles ask you to verify that you own the site, so a third-party form cannot do this work for you.
Who should submit to Submit Express?
- Founders who want one extra free ping to small engines and directories, after Google and Bing are set up.
- Skip it if you expect Google traffic from it: the page headline mentions Google, yet Google does not appear in the list of engines the form names.
- Skip it to avoid sales calls: the form requires a business phone number.
How much does Submit Express cost?
The submission form is free. The page also pitches a Premium Search Engine Submission Service, claiming that "more than 90%" of submitted sites have ranking problems. Submit Express publishes no prices; paid work goes through a "Request a Quote" form.
How do you submit your site with Submit Express?
- Open the Submit Express free website submission page.
- Enter your URL, email, name, business phone (at least 10 digits) and country, then type the security code from the image.
- Untick the newsletter and contact boxes you do not want and click Submit Now.
- Follow the rules printed on the form: submit only your home page, once a month at most, and no more than 5 submissions per 24 hours.
On submit, the form's script also opens a "Special Offers" window from another domain and passes it your URL, name, email and phone. Use a work address you are happy to see on marketing lists.
Tips to get more out of Submit Express
- Set up the free consoles first. Verify your domain in both and submit your sitemap; those engines send real visitors.
- Read the engine list before you submit. It names small engines such as ExactSeek, Scrub the Web and Entireweb, plus old names like Kartoo and goto.com that closed or were renamed long ago.
- Expect no backlink. A submission sends your URL to engines and creates no link to your site, so the DA of 54 belongs to submitexpress.com and passes nothing to you.
Our verdict
Submit Express still runs its free form in 2026, but it reaches engines that send almost no visitors and collects your phone number in return. Spend those two minutes in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools first, and treat Submit Express as an optional extra at most.
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