Getting Your Site Indexed by the Major Search Engines

Part I

This is the first article in a six part series on how you can get indexed in the most important search engines on the Internet. These search engines include Google, Yahoo, MSN, Exactseek, and Alexa. These sites cover over 80 percent of the searches done on the Internet, so it's well worth the effort to prepare your site correctly and submit it to these search engines.

Before you do any kind of promotion on the Internet, you need to make sure that your site is properly prepared for the search engines, which is the primary way other will find you.

If you haven't optimized your site for the search engines, now is the time to do it. There are two tools that you can use that are absolutely free to optimize your website - keep in mind that your main focus should be on optimizing individual pages for various keyword terms on your topic.

Good Keywords - This tool will tell you what others are searching for, as well as how often the search terms are searched for in a month. For Windows.

Web CEO - This software suite will not only help you optimize your pages for the search engines, but it will help you find link partners, as well as keyword terms, and you can use it to submit to other lesser-known search engines. For Windows and MAC.

It is beyond the scope of this article to teach you how to optimize your site for the search engines. Web CEO contains step-by-step documentation that will teach you everything you need to know about search engine optimization.

What's important here is that you find out specifically what keywords and keyword phrases searchers are looking for when searching. If you optimize your site for the wrong keyword search terms, either no one will find you, or you will have so much competition you won't be able to get your site to rank very high.

Most searchers won't go beyond the first three pages of results. Rank below this, and you'll have a tough time being found.

Article Author: Jinger Jarrett

Jinger Jarrett is a full time freelance writer and internet marketer. She teaches one person businesses how to market their business online using completely free internet marketing tools and techniques. …

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