Three Fast, Easy Ways to Get Into Google, Yahoo or MSN : An Introduction

If you’re having trouble getting your site noticed by the search engines, you aren’t alone, and you may not be doing anything wrong, per se. It may be a matter of doing more of the right things than discovering some grievance you probably have not committed.

It used to surprise me that in the age of social media on the Web, and open resources such as blogs, that there are still people who need help figuring out how to get search engines to find their sites. It’s so easy to forget that there are new people on the Internet each and every day.

Then there’s the fact that for a given term, there are only 30 choice spots, with the majority of traffic going to the top five.

If you’re having problems getting search engines to notice your site, don’t despair. There are ways of being included in search engine databases until you can afford to have a professional do the job for you.

The first step to being indexed is getting spidered. When someone mentions the word “spider” in the context of search engines, they’re referring to the web robots that crawl the internet, traveling from link to link in their quest to find content suitable for inclusion.

So how do you get spidered?

Many people would say to submit your site to the search engines, but for about three years now, it has been my experience that direct submission should be the last thing you try rather than the first, and that some submission processes are better than others.

As far as search engines, you really should only bother with the top three or four at first, depending on your site. Web directories are a different story.

Coming up next, the fastest way to get spidered.