How to get your New Website Indexed in Search Engines
This post will detail the actions you should take when trying to include your new website within the search engine results of Google.co.uk, Yahoo.co.uk and Live.co.uk.
1) Submit your New Website through “Add URL” Interface
The three main search engines listed above each have their own “Add URL” page which will allow you to suggest your website URL so that next time their bots crawl the web searching for new web pages to index then your website will be on the list:
2) Create a Sitemap.xml
Search engines now universally recognise XML sitemaps as a standard way to supplement the data found through crawlers finding your website. To allow crawlers that support sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the sitemap you should firstly add a sitemap link within your robots.txt, for example:
Sitemap: http://www.bal4.co.uk/sitemap.xml
You can then also submit your XML sitemap through Google’s Webmaster Tools and Yahoo!’s Site Explorer.
3) Obtain Inbound Links to your New Website
The quickest and most beneficial way to have your new website indexed with the search engines is to gain as many inbound links to your website as possible. This will help your site be found by search engine bots especially if they are finding your website through a link from a popular website that is regularly crawled and re-indexed.
Some Final Suggestions
The main thing you should remember about search engines is that they need to find your new web pages through links, so by creating and structured navigation and including sitemaps on your website you are giving the search engine bots every chance to dig deeper into your website. Search engine bots do have problems with reading some forms of navigation such as JavaScript drop downs, Flash and HTML form menus, so it is always best to keep it simple and provide alternatives if the previous items must be used. Gaining inbound links to your website will help the search engine bots index your web pages quicker and more regularly which will help keep your results in the search engine listings fresh and relevant.
Tags: SEO Services, XML Sitemaps
July 9th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Nice article, very useful for newbies. I’d add one more thing, add a robots.txt file with the URL of your sitemap attached to it.
July 9th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
There is no need to submit your URL to search engines, let the search engines find you!
Get some links from some authority sites, some of these are easy to obtain, think Digg, etc and you’ll site gets picked up on the same day and your site will be showing up in the index within 1 or two days.
Your inner pages will be showing up gradually.
July 12th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Nice article. To get good number of backlinks and make your website valuable in the eyes of search engines, I would suggest you to use Direct Link Ads or in that case, any text link building companies which does the job for you.