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How To Get Your Website Indexed?
Written by Hass67   
Monday, 06 April 2009 22:40
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..
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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.

In my opinion, there are only three search engines on the internet; Google, Yahoo and MSN. The other so called search engines have so little traffic that you can ignore them. Focus on Google, Yahoo and MSN. Google is the most important search engine. In fact, it is the search engine. If your website is not indexed by Google than forget about getting search engine traffic. Google gets more than 60% of the search engine traffic and its share of the global internet searches is on the rise. Ignore it at your peril!

Yahoo is the second more frequented search engine on the internet and it get around 30% of the search traffic. Yahoo can be a source of lot of free traffic for your site.

MSN gets around 10% of the search engine traffic and is also known as the Baby Search Engine. Somehow Microsoft has not been left far behind in the search engine competition. The good thing about Live Search is this that most of the people who go on it are not internet savvy so the conversion rate on it is 3 times better as compared on 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.

You can also get your site indexed on MSN by clicking on the Webmaster link on the bottom of each MSN search page. Submit your site. MSNbot will index your site in a few days. Just focus on these three major search engines. Rest of the search engines are not worth wasting your time.

About the Author:

Mr. Ahmad Hassam is a Harvard University Graduate. His hobby is internet marketing. Read about a unique Article Marketing Strategy. Learn Money Making Online Methods.