How To Get Search Engines Index Your Website?

Search engine traffic for your site should be your long term goal. But search engines can only know about your site if it is in their index. Get your site indexed by the search engines as early as possible if you really want to get your site ranked on these search engines..

There are SEO services online that claim that they can get your website indexed by hundreds of search engines. But they charge you good money for doing this. To tell you the truth, most of these services are not good. You can get your site indexed for free.

Google, Yahoo and MSN are the three major search engines that get almost all the traffic. Rest of the search engines really dont count. You need only focus on these three search engines. There are only three search engines that are important for your SEO. Googles share of the search engine traffic is more than 60%. It is the best and the most used search engine on the internet. Focus on Google the most because this is the search engine.

Yahoo is the second more frequented search engine on the internet and it get around 30% of the search traffic. Yahoo can be a source of lot of free traffic for your site.

MSN is the youngest search engine among the top three and is also called the Baby Search Engine. MSN share of the search engine traffic is less than 10%. Somehow MSN could not compete with Google and Yahoo in the online world and has been left behind. Most of the people who go on MSN, are not internet savvy, so you should expect very good conversions on it. Studies show that MSN converts 3 times better as compared to Google.

For getting your site indexed on Google. Open a Google Webmaster Tools account. Submit your site as well as its sitemap. Wait for a few days. Googlebot will come and crawl your site and get is indexed. It is as simple as that. People try to portray as if getting indexed by Google is difficult. But with Google Webmasters Tools, rest assured, Googlebot will index your site in a week.

Yahoo takes time to index your site. Use Yahoo Explorer to submit the URL and RSS feed of your site to tell Yahoo about your site. Expect to see your site in the Yahoo index in about a month. During this time, try to build at least a few hundred links to your site so that Yahoo considers it important to index your site.

You can also get your site indexed on MSN by clicking on the Webmaster link on the bottom of each MSN search page. Submit your site. MSNbot will index your site in a few days. Just focus on these three major search engines. Rest of the search engines are not worth wasting your time.

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