Making Sure Your Website Gets Indexed By The Search Engines
If you have the patience to wait around long enough, your web site will end up getting indexed by search engines. Or will it?
If you follow good SEO practices, like the ones you learn on this site, you probably have web pages that won’t trip spiders up, and your content is most likely unique and keyword rich.
So, if you're all buttoned up and ready to go, what else could you possible need to do?
There's Always Something You Can Do To Increase SEO Results
Why not help the search engines out by making it easier to find your site in the first place, and then handing them a map to your pages once their little spider friends arrive?
Want Better SEO Results? Hang Out a Sign
Well, not a real sign, of course; but you do want to raise your visibility by getting your site listed in highly respected locations that Google and other search engines love to visit.
Here's a short list to get you started:
- DMOZ.org
- Yahoo Directory
- Google Local Search
- What-U-Seek
- MSN Search Index
- Intelseek
- WebSearch Guide @ About.com
There are plenty more, but these will get you going.
Now That Search Engines Have Been Invited, Hand Them A Map
A site map that is. Site maps are pages you create that contain links to the web pages you want the search engines to find. An XML-based site map seems to work best.
Once a curious search engine spider finds your site map, it will follow every link it sees.
For best results, your site map should use the corresponding page's Title Tag as the link's anchor text. Then add a brief description of the page on the next line. Repeat until every page has been listed.
With a little bit of effort you can speed up the SEO process and help make sure your website gets indexed by the search engines.
