When you set up a new website or blog you may need to submit the url to the search engines. Google, Yahoo and most of the major search engines supply you with a page where you can suggest the URL of your website. However this won't get your site indexed more quickly as they don't automatically include every site in fact you'll rarely get all your pages indexed by all the search engines.
Before I explain some of the best ways to get your websites url indexed, I'd first like to give my opinion on the mass directory submission services that exist that promise to submit your websites to thousands of directories. Please don't waste your money, if you have too much money please send some to me and I'll invest it much more wisely in stocking up my wine cellar There are only a handful of search engines that are worth being listed in the rest are a complete waste of time and you'll just end up getting your email addresses spammed with infinite offers from these other directories, I on the other hand will never bother you while enjoying the proceeds of my new wine.
Many of the experts SEO professionals insist that you should never submit your url to any of the major search engines and you should get it indexed in other ways. Although I tend to agree with them using their submission page certainly won't do you any harm, if you search for submit url google/yahoo/msn etc you'll find all their pages. However you can easily submit and never actually make it into the search engines - it is much more preferable for them to find you.
All the major search engines are constantly looking for new content on the web, they revisit many sites thousands of times a day, checking content, following links, looking for new sites. But you should always remember that they exist to supply content and information to the people using their search facilities, Google is not going to be interested in indexing your site which is under construction, so make sure you have some content in your site before you start promoting it.
So how do we get our website indexed quickly by the search engines, well we must try and establish a presence for our url so that the search engine spiders will come visiting. For this we need links pointing in at our site, if you are creating a blog getting indexed is less of a problem most of the major blogging platforms will automatically 'ping' the search engines to inform them of new content. If you keep updating and using your blog it should get and stay indexed without any effort. This is not the case for websites however and it is not unusual to wait several months for indexing in many search engines.
To encourage the search engine spiders to visit we need to set up some little routes for the spiders to follow. The quickest and simplest way of doing this is by using social bookmarking sites. These online favourites management sites are much loved by the search engines and users alike so if you sign up with a big one like reddit, stumble or technorati then add a couple of your urls pretty soon your site will get spidered. As long as you have some useful content on your website that should be it you'll be in the indexes.
To check if you're listed just submit your url to the search engines in the search box and see if it comes up with any results. If it doesn't list your site in the search results you're not listed on that search engine.
However that's not the end of it remember that you'll need to get as many pages as possible listed in these indices for maximum traffic just having your home page listed is not enough. Make sure you create a site map and place it on your website, remember to update it when you add new content. Then sign up for Google's Webmaster tools where you can manually submit your sitemap to inform of new pages.
I use social bookmarking sites extensively to promote both my web sites and my customers, not only are they excellent for getting pages indexed fast, the links from all these sites promote your own web site and bring in direct traffic. However it can get really time consuming to logon to these sites and add individual urls.
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