Having a website is the first step. If you are interested in getting free search engine traffic for your website, then you need to get it indexed by the major search engines; Google, Yahoo and MSN.
There are SEO services online that claim that they can get your website indexed by hundreds of search engines. But they charge you good money for doing this. To tell you the truth, most of these services are not good. You can get your site indexed for free.
Google, Yahoo and MSN are the three major search engines that get almost all the traffic. Rest of the search engines really dont count. You need only focus on these three search engines. There are only three search engines that are important for your SEO. Googles share of the search engine traffic is more than 60%. It is the best and the most used search engine on the internet. Focus on Google the most because this is the search engine.
Yahoo gets around 30% of the search traffic online. This is the second largest search engine. Getting indexed on Yahoo is also important for you. Yahoo can give you a lot of traffic for free.
MSN gets around 10% of the search engine traffic and is also known as the Baby Search Engine. Somehow Microsoft has not been left far behind in the search engine competition. The good thing about Live Search is this that most of the people who go on it are not internet savvy so the conversion rate on it is 3 times better as compared on Google.
For getting your site indexed on Google. Open a Google Webmaster Tools account. Submit your site as well as its sitemap. Wait for a few days. Googlebot will come and crawl your site and get is indexed. It is as simple as that. People try to portray as if getting indexed by Google is difficult. But with Google Webmasters Tools, rest assured, Googlebot will index your site in a week.
Yahoo takes time to index your site. Use Yahoo Explorer to submit the URL and RSS feed of your site to tell Yahoo about your site. Expect to see your site in the Yahoo index in about a month. During this time, try to build at least a few hundred links to your site so that Yahoo considers it important to index your site.
On each Live search page, on the bottom, there is a link that says: Webmasters. Click on it and submit your Site List to MSN. MSN will index the site.
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