Get Your Website Indexed By Search Engines
Search engine traffic for your site should be your long term goal. But search engines can only know about your site if it is in their index. Get your site indexed by the search engines as early as possible if you really want to get your site ranked on these search engines..
Many SEO services online will charge you something like $50-$100 for getting your site indexed by hundreds of search engines. The truth is, most of these services are not good. You need not waste your money on these SEO sites. You can get your site indexed by the major search engines for free.
There are only three search engines that are important for your SEO. Google gets more than 60% of the total searches on the internet. So, it is very important for you to get your website indexed as early as possible. The earlier the better, because Google takes into account the age factor of the website also while ranking it.
Yahoo gets around 30% of the search traffic online. This is the second largest search engine. Getting indexed on Yahoo is also important for you. Yahoo can give you a lot of traffic for free.
MSN is the youngest search engine among the top three and is also called the Baby Search Engine. MSN share of the search engine traffic is less than 10%. Somehow MSN could not compete with Google and Yahoo in the online world and has been left behind. Most of the people who go on MSN, are not internet savvy, so you should expect very good conversions on it. Studies show that MSN converts 3 times better as compared to Google.
For getting your site indexed on Google. Open a Google Webmaster Tools account. Submit your site as well as its sitemap. Wait for a few days. Googlebot will come and crawl your site and get is indexed. It is as simple as that. People try to portray as if getting indexed by Google is difficult. But with Google Webmasters Tools, rest assured, Googlebot will index your site in a week.
Yahoo takes time to index your site. Use Yahoo Explorer to submit the URL and RSS feed of your site to tell Yahoo about your site. Expect to see your site in the Yahoo index in about a month. During this time, try to build at least a few hundred links to your site so that Yahoo considers it important to index your site.
On each Live search page, on the bottom, there is a link that says: Webmasters. Click on it and submit your Site List to MSN. MSN will index the site.
