You’ve created a website and finally launched it in cyberspace. So how to get your website listed on a search engine?

How do you make people take note of your online presence among the millions of websites already online?

Firstly, you need to get your website ranked on a variety of search engines so that people can locate your website. The only reason you have a website is to have visitors come see what you have to offer right?

Thus, getting ranked as high as possible on the search engine is extremely important. I would go for the top 10 spots for this particular reason. Myself…

…I am lazy when it comes to looking for information online and I always want everything fast and proficient. I’m not going to go through tens of hundreds of thousands of sites just to find what I’m looking for. So I guess it must be the same for you or any other internet user.

Again, how to get your website listed on a search engine?

You can either do nothing and let the search engines find your website. They use “spider bots” by the way hence the term “get your website spidered”.

Or you can submit your website to search engines and other web directories yourself.

I prefer combining both methods together. This way, the search engine spiders will be on auto-mode and place your website into their list by exploring your website’s keywords on webpage or perhaps in your website’s meta tags.

Use keywords that people are looking for. Phrases that people type into the seach engines to find information. Always start with a general keyword and then add specific words and phrases around it.

Try to use varying ways to spell your keywords, if relevant; and do not worry about making use of initial capital letters on fitting names. Who knows? Someone may be typing it that way on the search engines to find you.

Whenever you are set to get your website listed on a search engine, you can choose to sumbit your website on your own or by using a submission service to the work for you.

When you use such a submission service, your website will also land on lesser known search engines besides the Big 3 i.e. Google, Yahoo and MSN. This can only be beneficial for you.

Here are some recommended places to submit your website on your own:-

Google - www.google.com/addurl/
Yahoo - http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
MSN - http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx
ExactSeek - http://www.exactseek.com/add.html

If you choose to use a paid submission service I recommend you to use this:-

SubmitItFast - www.submititfast.com

What are you waiting for? I’ve shown you how to get your website listed on a [TAG-TEC]search engine[/TAG-TEC]. Now just do it!