Cheap Search Engine Optimization

Now the fist step in getting on the search engines is to obviously get indexed by the search engines. In order to get indexed you need to have one of the many search engine bots crawl and spider your website.

How do you get your website indexed?

All you need is to somehow lure a search engine bot onto your website so it can spider your entire site. Once the bots reach your site and spider all the pages, you will shorty thereafter see your pages getting indexed. Now you will probably have horrible rankings, but you are indexed and that is what is important about this first step. You can work on building your rank later. On to the next question...

How do you get search engine bots to spider your website?

This is where you have to be careful. If you do this wrong or in what's called a "black-hat" fashion, then you can very easily get banned from certain search engines. You do not want your site to get banned for obvious reasons. So this is how to avoid getting banned...

Do NOT use a search engine submission service. Although there are some legitimate companies out there that do your search engine submissions, there are probably 10 times more "bad" search engine submission companies out there. Some use black-hat tactics which will get your site banned, some will submit your site numerous times, sometimes so much that the search engine will ban your site, and some companies just do not have the right knowledge to even be offering a service like this. So my advice to you... Save your time, money and website credibility and just do not use any search engine submission services.

Another thing that you do NOT want to do is to continuously submit your site to the same search engine. Sometimes when you submit your site, it sits in a queue for sometimes up to a year before they even bother to look at it, so if you submit your site once a month by time the year roles around they will see it there 12 times and just plain ignore it. Just the fact that it takes so long for them to look at your submission I wouldn't even recommend using any of the search engines' submission pages. So what can you do to successfully get indexed?

My biggest recommendation would be to allow the search engine bots to find your page "naturally". This will offer you the best and fastest indexing on the search engines. Now to get a spider to your site "naturally" is actually quite easy. In essence all you really need to do is get a a website or webpage with a lot of traffic and a high page rank to somehow link to your site. Naturally when this "high-authority" site is linked to you and the search engine bots spider that particualar page or site, it will follow the link to your site, and just like that you have search engine bots spidering the pages of your website.

My Personal Recommendation...

What I find to be the easiest way to get indexed is to write an article on a high traffic article directory. I use ezinearticles.com but goarticles.com is a good article directory as well. All I usually do is write an article with all the keywords that are relevant to my website and submit it. Now the most important part of this is to have a link to your website in the resource box that these article directories allow you to write in. A resource box is a little snippet at the end of your article which usually talks about the author and they allow you to put a link in it. Create a link to your site. Once it is approved and added to the article directory, it will just be a matter of time before the search engine bots start to crawl all over your webpages. The maximum time I have seen has been 2 weeks. Usually it is less than that. Anytime I have a new website or webpage I want indexed, I just take about 20-30 minutes to write a nice decent article, add my website link to the resource box, submit it, and wait for my website to get indexed. It's that simple.

This is an article I wrote about SEO(Search Engine Optimization). It was originally titled Search Engine Optimization for Dummies but the article directory though that wasn't "professional" enough so in the article directory it is titled "Search Engine Optimization for Site Owners". It is the same great content however. This is by no means an all out guide on SEO, but it is a definite start. Implementing some of these ideas and tactics will definitely boost your search engine rankings. Here is the Article:

Search Engine Optimization For Dummies

Once again you can repost or republish this article as long as you follow the guidelines of the article directory.