greetings, jeckle!
As the owner of a new website, you are understandably anxious to get
your site noticed by people searching the Internet, and the best way
to do that is through Search Engines.
Unfortunately, because of the sheer volume of the millions of webpages
that now exist, getting your site to show up in Search Engine results
is a slow and somewhat capricious process.
The Googlebot does a massive crawl every 4 to 6 weeks, indexing the
entire web. This has been dubbed "The Dance" because website Page
Rankings and Search Results tend to bop around a bit while it is going
on, yielding strange, unexplainable variations from one moment to the
next.
When webmasters submit their site's URL, it gets added to a list of
"make a special point to go out and check this site" URLs. These URLs
will be indexed first by the "Freshbot" which does a "fresh crawl"
most every day; hopefully, you will notice results within less than a
month of submission because of this. The Freshbot is a separate spider
designed to do only partial crawls -- of just the sites on the list of
submitted URLs and other pages the Googler has deemed worthy of more
frequent indexing -- so it theoretically gets through its list much
faster than the regular Googlebot gets through the whole World Wide
Web, then starts over again. The Freshbot index gets merged in with
the Googlebot for searching.
Furthermore, while the Googleys are not terribly forthcoming about the
secret algorithms used by the Googlebots, it has been noticed that the
country-specific Google Home Pages will frequently show different
results for the same search, due to differences in how the Googlebot
indexes sites with country suffixes such as .uk, .fr, .ca, .ie, etc.
Once you submit your site to Google, it will take a little while to
start showing up in Search Results. Your site should start showing up
anywhere from one to three months after you submit it, possibly after
the next Dance, but almost certainly by the completion of the Dance
after that.
So what you need to do is be a little patient and hang out for awhile,
until the Googlebot has had a chance to get your website installed in
its index.
In the meantime, there are some other things you can do to help your
website:
1) Submit it to a DMOZ (Directory Mozilla Open Directory Project)
category at http://www.dmoz.org (if you haven't done so already). You
can submit it using the generic Submit URL at
http://www.dmoz.org/add.html ; however, it's a lot easier if you first
find the Category that best fits your site, then look for the
blue-lettered "Add URL" hyperlink in the upper right-hand corner --
that will fill in the right Category for you.
2) Submit your site to other Search Engines (if you have not done so
already):
HotBot:
http://ldbreg.lycos.com/cgi-bin/mayaLogin?m_PR=29&m_CBURL=http://insite.lycos.com/searchservices/lite?step1.asp
AllTheWeb:
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php
AltaVista:
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new
Zeal (LookSmart/MSN free submission w/free registration)
http://www.zeal.com/users/register.jhtml
3) Learn more about how the Googlebot and other Search Engine Spiders
work by visiting Webmaster resource sites. Probably the best one of
these is WebMasterWorld, at
http://www.webmasterworld.com
You can use their Search function to look for forum discussions on
subjects of interest to you, such as "Page Rank" and "Freshbot", or
you can just browse through the forums, clicking on postings with
interesting Subject lines.
Another good resource is the forum Search Engine World:
http://www.searchengineworld.com
I encourage you to visit these sites and learn more about making your
site attractive and friendly to Search Engines.
Before Rating my Answer, if you have any questions about this
information, please post a Request for Clarification, and I will see
what I can do for you.
I hope that this Answer has provided you with exactly the information
you needed -- Best Wishes for increased traffic to your website!
Regards,
aceresearcher |
