Hi smack,
It seems you're looking for instructions for getting your website
noticed by the search engines!
The easiest way to do that is to let the search engines know you're
there, and submit your site for inclusion once you've finished
building it. This is easily accomplished by visiting the submissions
pages for varying indices, and entering your URL.
I'll start with the submission instructions for several top search
engines:
Google
For Site Owners: Submit your site
://www.google.com/addurl.html
Yahoo!
How To Suggest Your Site
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/
AltaVista
Basic Submit
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new
AllTheWeb
Free Site Submit
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php
Another way to get noticed by the search engines is to submit your
listing to the Netscape Open Directory Project (DMOZ):
DMOZ
How To Add A Site To The Open Directory
http://www.dmoz.org/add.html
These are a good start for you. Keep in mind that submitting your
site does not mean you will be included immediately, or even at all.
Google, for example, only updates its index every 4 weeks or so. You
may very well submit it tomorrow, but not see it turn up in search
results until the end of next month:
"We add thousands of new sites to our index each time we crawl the
Web, but if you like, you may submit your URL as well. Submission is
not necessary and does not guarantee inclusion in our index. Given the
large number of sites submitting URLs, it's likely your pages will be
found in an automatic crawl before they make it into our index through
the URL submission form. We DO NOT add all submitted URLs to our
index, and cannot predict when or if they will appear."
Submitting Your Site
://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html#A2
How else can you get listed? It certainly doesn't hurt to ask a few
people to link to you, especially if they have a solid PageRank:
"Google finds sites through a process known as "crawling" the web.
This involves robot software that follows hyperlinks from site to
site. Google currently looks at more than 3 billion URL's during the
crawl. The process may take several weeks to complete.
When a URL is submitted to Google, we look for it in our next crawl.
If you've already submitted your URL, your site could easily appear in
our new index, which will go up when the current crawl is completed.
However, if no other site links to yours, it may be difficult for our
crawler to find you. Conversely, if many sites link to your page,
there is a good chance we will find you without your submitting your
URL."
[...]
"If we have not picked up your site and it has been several months,
then it is likely that our spiders are not able to find your site. If
you increase the links pointing to the page, Google will likely find
your site in the future."
Getting Listed
://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html#B1
How do you get linked? Do a search on the same terms you expect to
find your site listed under, then contact the top ten or twenty
webmasters and ask if they would be interested in exchanging links
with you. Everybody loves free publicity, and it's the rare webmaster
who refuse a link exchange.
For more information about getting (and staying) listed, Google offers
several resources for webmasters:
Google Information for Webmasters
://www.google.com/webmasters/
Google Webmasters' FAQ
://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html
User Support Forum
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=google.public.support.general
Additonally, you might be interested in the phenomenon known as the
Google Dance, the shifting and changing results that occur while the
Googlebot is on the prowl and Google is updating the index:
Google Update History
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2657.htm
Google Dance Machine
http://google-dance.miniunternehmen.de/
It's All About Google - SEO Today, February 26, 2002
http://www.seotoday.com/browse.php/category/articles/id/173/index.php
There's also a terrific article at Search Engine Watch that explains
the submissions process very well:
Intro To Search Engine Submission
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/submit.html
Pay particular attention to:
Submitting to Directories
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/directories.html
Submitting to Crawlers
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/crawlers.html
Checking Your URL
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/checkurl.html
Good luck with finishing your site and getting listed!
If you need further assistance, please don't hesitate to ask for
clarification. I'll be glad to help.
--Missy
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