A question that pops up every now and again from people is “what’s the best way to get my new indexed in the search engines?“. There is no magic formula, no snake oil or special product necessary. All you need to do is take at least 1 of the steps highlighted below.
- Get a good inbound link into your site. Use your existing sites (if you have one) or beg, borrow or ask a friend. If you are nice maybe I would help you out. Remember search engines won’t find your site easily if it’s not linked. They need way of discovering your website. Thankfully there is a 2nd way, where you can tell them directly that you have a new site (see next option).
- Take advantage of the the Free FluffyLinkUlator, which has details about the submission pages for the search engines (google & yahoo!) and for DMOZ.org (a respected directory).
submit to the search engines
And for people thinking of paying someone a few hundred €’s for links from directories, don’t bother. For a fraction of the price you can submit to thousands of them yourself with Louie’s Directory Submission Service. Personally I am not the greatest fan of investing silly amounts of time generating these types of links, due to the limited benefit they bring. But for a new website, it can be an easy way to start to get some inbound links, and start to receive some traffic.
Next Steps
Once you have done this, and your site is appearing on Google/Yahoo ! it’s time to organise a sitemap, get access to their webmaster consoles to see check your site’s status. More on that anothertime !
