Submitting Your Site

Posted on November 2, 2006 - Filed Under Search Engine Optimisation

There are many, many search engines and lots of tools are available to help you submit your site automatically. However, some search engines don’t like automatic submission tools and your site may be penalised if you use them. Submission by hand, at least to the 3 most important engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) is well worth the effort. Better still is to allow your site to be found nauturally by search engines. You can do this by promoting your site around the Net on chatrooms, forums and on other sites. The search engines will follow (spider) the links to your site and soon enough you will appear on the search engine results pages, often referred to as SERPs.

If you want to see if your site is indexed on a particular search engine, you can use the search term:

site:www.citychallengeuk.com

and this will return all the pages that an engine has indexed. This works on all major search engines (Google, MSN and Yahoo).

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