How do I get my site on a search engine?

Electric Studio · Feb 22nd, 2008, 08:22

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Originally Posted by Ed

It really is only necessary to submit a site map if your navigation is extremely poor on your website. As in, it is so bad that Google or Yahoo could not index it.

Ed.

The advantage of working with Google, rather than againts, is all the statistics they then can give you back, like how many pages they have indexed, if they can't find any pages, how often they crawl your site, what keywords was used to find your site.

It's also very helpful to help you track any improvements as the result of chnages etc. The more you give Google, the more you get back, so i would always recommend submitting a sitemap, no matter how good you think your navigation is.

MikeHopley · Feb 22nd, 2008, 11:33

Google sitemaps may help your site be crawled more quickly, since they are a method of notifying Google of new content.

Google will find your pages eventually, unless your code is horrible (e.g. javascript links).