Basic concept: Getting indexed means making your website known to the search engine. Imagine a new website say www.mynewwebsite.com that is just created in the world. How in the world will Google, Yahoo, MSN or any other search engine know of the existence of this website? In fact, they won't know unless someone or something tells them. And when someone tells them of this new website (www.mynewwebsite.com), they will put it in their database and the website is now indexed.
How do you know if you are already indexed? To check if you are indexed in Google, go to Google.com, type in your website URL (ie. joomla-seo.blogspot.com) and check the search result. If your website appears in the search results, aloha! you are already indexed. If not, then you better follow the steps below to get yourself indexed. You can perform the same check for Yahoo, MSN and any other search engine.
So when you have a website, you will need to tell the search engines, you will need to get your website indexed. There are many ways to do it, here's some:
- Submit your url manually to the individual search engine.
To submit to Google, go to http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
To submit to Yahoo, go to http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
To submit to MSN Live, go to http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx
The simplest D-I-Y thing for every webmaster. - Put a link from an indexed website to your website. Especially if the website is a high-PR website, chances are that the bots and spiders will come to the website often and follow the link to get to your website. This is in fact one of the fastest way to get indexed.
- Alternatively, submitting your links to directories, forums and other websites will help getting your website indexed too. This principle works the same as point 2.
- For indexing in Google, you can submit your website through Google Sitemap at http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/. This is just another way of getting indexed.
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