seo and wordpress stuff for all & sundry
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Ok, this site got indexed on Google about 15 hours ago but so far not yet on Bing or Yahoo, to check if a site is indexed go to the search engine and type in:
site:mynewsite.com
If it’s indexed all your pages display, so this site took approx 1.5 days to get on there, thats good, i have other sites still not indexed yet.
You will not need to submit links to any other search engines, that battle has been fought, all the others feed into the big three; Yahoo, Google and Bing – here is a link to show how the search engine relationship chart exists – so after submission you need to sit and wait until you get indexed – there are a couple of other things to do while you wait, getting sorted with analytics and sitemaps and robots; has to be something from a John Carpenter film.
Indexing is a wait and see scenario there is no fixed time that the search engines will inde you, it can well vary between a couple of days to a couple of months, one thing that will help is if another site already indexed has a link to yours.
Ok, couple more manual submits, for Yahoo go here and for the Open Directory Project aka DMOZ go here, for DMOZ a real person is going to check you out so make sure you are who you say you are! You will have to sift through the directory and select an appropriate category, please note that not all categories have a “suggest URL”, if your’s doesn’t have one you will need to select another category.
Yahoo also has a Directory which you can list your business which is reviewed by a real live person, you can do this here but it will come at a cost of $299 (non-refundable).
To pay this sort of money at the start i feel is really not worth it especially that the submission at Google is free and will give you a lot more search results considering they dominate the search engine landscape.
To manually submit your new site to a search engine you can do Bing here and Google here, i have heard that doing this sometimes makes the process take longer but haven’t heard why? Look forward to any comments on this.
Will discuss Yahoo and Open Directory in a future post but these 2 are the more important starting points.
Actually it is preffered to get your site up to SEO scratch before you do this as then you will get indexed correctly at the start – rather than waiting for a re-index.
