This one is probably most obvious steps you'd want to do, when you're about to publish your website/blog to receive some traffic. There are several ways to do this. As the Crawlers are automatically searching the web for new content/websites, the chances are good the search machine already indexed your website, if your website was linked from somewhere.
How to check if your website is index by a search engine?
It depends a little bit from search engine to search engine.
- Google.com:
Simply open Google Webpage and entersite:monetize-website.blogspot.com
in the search field (of course replace monetize-website.blogspot.com with your websites root)
If you want to see which pages are linking to your website, entersite:monetize-website.blogspot.cominstead. - Yahoo.com:
To check your website in Yahoo, go to Yahoo! Site Explorer and enter your URL at top of the page and hit Explore URL.
If you click on the "Inlinks" button, you can also see which pages link to your site - Live.com (MSN): It was a hell to find out it (it’s located in the Advanced search options), but it seems it similar to Google’s syntax, just enter
site:monetize-website.blogspot.com
in the searchfield.
However, i was unable to find a direct way to see incoming links, without having to sign up in the Webmaster Center. It seems to work similarly to Google’s Webmaster Tools.
You may notice some differences in the "inlinks" functions of the search engines, most of them may come from the facts that some engines handle links differently (i.e. following nofollow links or not).
How do I add my website to a search engine?
Your website is not in the index or not indexed fully? Time to change it. You can add your website to the search engines. Well “add” is the wrong term. You can “suggest” your webpage to a search engine, however there is no guarantee that the search engine will add your website to their index.
In order to add/suggest your website to a search engine, but before we do this, there is an important thing to know. There are two ways you can publish your website in the current search engines. The first is, to anonymously submit a website. For this version you don’t have to register with the search engine, the disadvantage is, you won’t have detailed statistics and options to check the state, stats, possible errors which influence your page rank etc. The second option is to register and claim the URLs you submit. For this you usually have to prove that you actually own this URLs and have to either upload a certain file to your webspace or and an meta-tag.
- Google.com:
After you have signed up for Google.com, you can go to “My Account” and look for “Webmaster Tools”. If you can’t find it in My Products you probably haven’t signed in for the Webmaster Tools. So select it from “Try something new” section.
Once there, you can add your website and verify it.
To add a website to Google without creating an account and sign for Webmaster Tools, you can go to can Add your URL to Google and simply enter your URL there. - Yahoo.com:
Similar as with Google. Either Create your Account and add your website to “My Sites” in the Yahoo! Site Explorer and verify that you own the sites too.
You can also submit your page without registering at “Submit Your Site”. - Live.com:
Microsoft also offers a Webmaster Center where you can register (or login if you already have an Live-ID).
And the register-free submission of your site.
It’s worth to sign up for the Webmaster/Additional Services as they can offer you important information about how your site is performing (like search terms) or show you if something is wrong (404 errors, broken links etc) so you can fix it and improve your page ranking.
Advantages of signing up for advanced webmaster services
The main advantages are that you get
- Detailed statistics
- Detailed error reports
- Top search queries
- Inlinks statistics
- See Feed Subscriber statistics
- Show position of your page when user looks for certain keywords
They will be very helpful tool later when you’re about to start some optimizations. It’s also very important to submit a sitemap or Feed (Google accepts RSS/Atom Feeds as Sitemaps), they will make it easier for the search engine to index your website and will also be notified when you upload a new post or site.
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