We all want search engines to crawl our sites (well at least those of us that want the most traffic we can get). To get the search engine's to notice your site, try any or a combination of these tactics.

Option #1: Use links - Having another site link to you will make spiders that visit the first site come to your site as a result of the link. Many owners of sites related to yours are happy to post a link to your site on their links page. Some might require what is called “reciprocal linking”. This basically means that if they place a link to your site on their page, they want you to return the favor by posting a link to their page on your site. Doing so may not help much with your rankings but if your not listed yet it should help get you noticed.

Option #2: Use keywords to get spiders to come to your site - Search engine spiders absolutely love sites with good, well-placed and well-used keywords and key phrases. In other newsletters, we have covered the correct use of keywords and key phrases, so you might already be familiar with it. If not, we’ll briefly touch on it right now. Keywords are words that are used frequently on a site that search engines look for. The key to correct usage of keywords is to make them fit naturally throughout a piece of content and not look like spam. Before writing your content for your site, take some time to research this.

Option #3: Install a blog on your site - Blogs are extremely popular and quickly listed by search engines. Places like Google are known to index(or list a site/blog) far faster than they list regular web sites. Blogs are listed by search engines like Google within days of being created, whereas it can take weeks and months for search engines to notice a site.

Installing a blog on your site is really easy. All you have to do is install a program such as WordPress on your web site and then use that to make blog postings. If you run a sports site, for instance, you could try posting twice a week on the blog about sports news. Doing so will help your site as a whole get noticed quicker by search engines.

Creating a blog on your web site is quicker than ever before. Do it today and watch how quickly and effortlessly your site gets listed on search engines!

Option #4 (least recommended): Submit your URL manually to search engines - Search engines like Google and Yahoo all have options for you to manually submit your site. Before submitting, however, it is important to make sure of the following:

1. All pages on your site are complete. Search engine spiders won’t touch incomplete sites.

2. Your site is not full of spam and/or excessive use of keywords. Yet again, spiders are programmed to avoid spam sites, which means your site can be skipped over if it contains lots of spam.

When you submit the site, make sure to submit it only once to each search engine. Submitting multiple times to the same search engine will get you no where. In fact, they might keep your site from ever having a chance at being listed on the search engine.

If you apply the options above to your web site, you shall get listed quicker. Good Luck.

Terry Detty, 42, enjoys all aspects of internet marketing and getting out for a breath of fresh air occasionally. Also enjoys a variety of other subjects such as internet marketing -- time tracking software and email marketing

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