How Do Search Engines Find My Website?


	How Do Search Engines Find My Website?

CarpetDog

8-24-2007 1:36 PM

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seo, search engines, index, directory

CarpetDog says:

A good outline of how search engines find websites

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/55bf6b7e-dede-4447-85c4-78f196afbb21/F537B7CC-CC6D-445C-B3C6-AE51DDABEE20/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.getyoursiteindexed.com/2007/08/24/how-do-search-engines-find-my-website/" href="http://www.getyoursiteindexed.com/2007/08/24/how-do-search-engines-find-my-website/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.getyoursiteindexed.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getyoursiteindexed.com/2007/08/24/how-do-search-engines-find-my-website/"><P>Believe it or not, you don’t actually have to directly submit your site to a search engine. More often than not it will come and find you from links on other sites.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getyoursiteindexed.com/2007/08/24/how-do-search-engines-find-my-website/"><P>They find you either from links on another site (this is called ‘organic’ traffic) or a direct submission to the search engines database using an ‘add url’ link on their site. You can also use a service or a piece of software that submits you to several (or thousands) search engines at once. Please do watch out for some directories as they tend to either send you spam themselves or sell your email address to others to spam you.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getyoursiteindexed.com/2007/08/24/how-do-search-engines-find-my-website/"><P>What types of places are there to submit my website?
Directories (free and paid). Search Engines. Individual sites. Free For All (FFA) pages.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.getyoursiteindexed.com/2007/08/24/how-do-search-engines-find-my-website/"><P>This Article was written by Steve Dorrington (AKA <A title="CarpetDog" href="http://www.carpetdog.co.uk">CarpetDog</A>). Steve regularly contributes to the <A title="Get Your Site Indexed" href="http://www.getyoursiteindexed.com">Get Your Site Indexed</A> blog. He’s also written an ebook called The <A title="The 48 Hour Plan" href="http://www.48hourplan.com">48 Hour Plan</A> – How to get your website indexed in 48 hours or less.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F537B7CC-CC6D-445C-B3C6-AE51DDABEE20/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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