So you have a new website, and it still not showing up on Google. What should you do?
If your web designer did a good job, she already included keywords and website description to your webpages. These information are hidden from you and other visitors, but seen by search engines. These are important information that your webdesigner should have to ask for, before finishing the website. She should have uploaded a sidemap.xml file to your server. ( A XML Sitemap is a file by which helps a search engine, including Google, find & index all the pages on your site.)
What is next? How Google will find your website?
Google is pretty good finding new site, but many people believe to submit their website URL to search engine directly. It is a tool that is used to let the search engines know that there is new website.
It is important to submit your site’s pages to all of the major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Bing) because even though the other engines have less traffic than Google, they still have millions of users. When you submit a URL or domain name to the search engines, it could take anywhere from two to four weeks to get indexed. Sometimes your page will not get indexed after you submit it, if that occurs, wait four weeks and then resubmit the page again.
Google’s URL submit is very quick and easy. Just go to Google’s web page for URL submitting, type in your URL, type in the message that ensures Google you are an individual not a software robot and click “add URL.”
Yahoo!
Since 2010, Yahoo search has been powered by Microsoft’s Bing search engine. When you submit your site to Bing you will also show up in Yahoo’s search results. See below on how to submit your site to Bing.
Bing
Bing allows you to submit your URL, just like Google and Yahoo!. Go to Bing’s site submission page, type in the URL of your homepage (this is different than Google and Yahoo!). MSNBot will follow the links from your homepage to all of the pages on your site.
Time is your friend!
It takes time for different directories to find your website. If you have an official business address on the website, Yelp.com, and Google map will find it pretty soon and put your business in their website with the information that they find on your website. Search for your business name and see in which web directories it shows up and claim and change the info on them.
Google Analytics
Install Google Analytics to measure how many visitors you have and how did they find your website, what keywords they used, etc. It is amazing too and it is free!
