Getting your site crawled and indexed

Author: Joe Whyte

Getting your site crawled and indexed is a lot like baiting spider monkeys in South America. You have to use a few bananas! Banana’s being inbound links of course. My point here is that when you have a new site, other then submitting it to the search engines, there is no way for a search engine to know your site exists unless other websites link to it. The best form of inbound links will be relevant, high quality and high trafficked websites that rank for their search terms.

Here are some quick tips on how to find inbound links:

• Use tools like IBP and SEO elite to find relevant site’s and contact the site owners for inbound links.

• Get involved in webmaster forums like forum.lunarpages.com

• Do a Google search for a search term and click to the 4th page and contact the site owners for an inbound link.

• Add your site to popular directories like dmoz.com.

• Do a search for a search term that describes your site and ad a “add link” to the end of your search. I.E. web hosting “add link”

Submissions

It’s a good idea to submit your site to as many search engines as possible in order to let the search engines know you exist. Don’t get caught up with flashy ads from SEO companies claiming to submit you to hundreds of search engines MONTHLY or PERIODICALLY. Once you have made a submission then you are submitted and there is NO need for you to keep submitting yourself.

Sitemaps

Create a Google sitemap for your website. A Google sitemap will help Google find every single page on your site, cache and index them. Try using this xml sitemap generator for yahoo and Google sitemap creation. The more pages that are indexed increase the potential for more pages pulling up in the SERP’s.