How to get listed in the major search engines?
When you own a website and you have optimised it well for search engines for your keywords, you will find that most of your traffic comes from search engines.
But how do you get listed in those search engines?
The search engines will need to find you. And the easiest way for that is to add a link to a site that Google spiders regularly.
Some sites that Google spiders a lot (because the content changes all the time) are social bookmark sites. Examples are:
Bookmark your site at one of these sites and Google will most likely pick it up. However, you will also want to list your site in one of the other search engines. Yahoo and now Bing are getting increasingly popular and it’s also very important to get listed in these.
Webmaster tools
All 3 search engines have what they call Webmaster Tools where you can register your site and your sitemap if you have one. It’s a very good idea to register for this, as not only do you notify the search engines of your site, you can also monitor any errors (broken links, page not found errors) that they pick up. You will need to have access to your website to authenticate that you are the owner of the website and if you want me to do this for you then please contact me.
Here is where you find the webmaster tools for each search engine:
Google Analytics
In order to monitor if you have been successful and are getting traffic from all search engines be sure to add Google Analytics to your website. It’s free and it’s one of the best website analytics around. You will find out where your visitors are coming from, which sites referred them, which keywords they used to find you and which search engine they used. You can even track how many conversions (for example product purchases) you got.
If you want to get help getting your website indexed, setting up analytics, or if you need help with search engine optimisation of your site then feel free to contact me.
