Getting Indexed

Getting Indexed

Once your site is listed in a search engine then you are “indexed”. To be indexed you can ask other sites that are already indexed to have a link pointing to you, get listed in a directory (detailed later) or manually submit your site to the search engines (only needs doing once)

There seems to be little or no logic to the time frame of being indexed so treat the search engines as temperamental beings and you will keep your sanity. Some sites will be listed in a matter of days others will take months.

You may notice that I continually talk about Goggle mostly even though there are other major search engines out there. This is because figures show that Goggle handle 47.3% of searches and Yahoo is next with 20.9 % with MSN at 13.6%.

What the search engines say

I will post in the next days extracts for webmasters or website owners for site ranking and positioning. These were all taken direct from the search engine sites but not all from one page. Where possible we have tried to include all relevant information in a fluid style but as you can imagine with search engines wanting to keep algorithms secret, they don’t give too much away. If you are brand new to website and Internet marketing then there are a few pearls of wisdom in there. If not then the rest of this blog offers more valuable information.