Getting Indexed by the Search Engines
Your website doesn't exist until it is indexed by the search engines. The leading search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing, are constantly crawling web pages to make sense of them. The crawlers are computer scripts, often referred to as spiders that are created to make sense of what a particular web page is about.
The quickest and best way to get your website indexed is to have other websites link to your website. The more websites link to your website the quicker will your website picked up. Contrary to popular belief search engine submission is not the best way to get your website crawled. External links, not submissions, will get your website crawled. Some search engines charge for submission, but it is not recommended to pay a search engine for submission.
To make indexing easier for the search engines, create a site map for your website. The site map is an xml file that outlines the structure of your website, making indexing fast and simple. Google offers Google Webmaster Tools, for which an XML Sitemap feed can be created and submitted for no charge to ensure that all pages are found, especially pages that aren't discoverable by automatically following links. You should get your web developer or web design professional to help you with this task.
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