Attract Visitors to Your Site: The Mini Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald

Author:Matthew MacDonald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Tip: For more information about search engines, including who’s on top and who owns who, check out http://www.searchengineland.com/.

It’s not too difficult to get Google to notice your site. By the time your site’s about a month old, Google will probably have stumbled across it at least once, usually by following a link from another site or from the ODP. As described in the box above, Google takes outside links into consideration when sizing up a site, so the more sites that link to you, the more likely you are to turn up in someone’s search results.

If you’re impatient or you think Google’s passing you by, you can introduce yourself directly using the submission form at http://www.google.com/addurl/ (see Figure 1-7). Most popular search engines include a submission form like this. Just make sure you keep track of where you’ve submitted, so you don’t inadvertently submit your site to the same search engine more than once.

Rising up in the rankings

You’ll soon discover that it’s not difficult to get into Google’s index. But you might find it exceedingly hard to get noticed. For example, suppose you’ve submitted the site http://www.SamMenzesHomemadePasta.com/. To see if you’re in Google, try an extremely specific search that targets just your site, like “Sam Menzes Homemade Pasta.” This should definitely lead to your doorstep. Now, try searching for just “Homemade Pasta.” Odds are, you won’t turn up in the top 10, or even the top 100.

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