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Statistics
show that more than 85% of internet users find
web sites with the help of the search engines.
Therefore, it is important and crucial to make
sure that your website has been visited and
indexed by main search engines. It is quite
similar to have a new book (your new site) in
a library (Internet), without an indexing card
or indexed in the libray computer system (indexed
by engines), the book (your site) will probably
be not found by most of library visitors (internet
users).
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This
article introduces you the ways to find out
if the search engines know your web site and
what the search engines know about your web
site. Let's focus on Google, Yahoo, MSN search
engines only since they are the major search
engines in today's marketplace, and a new site
will be highly possible to be found by one of
them or all first.
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1.
Search engine awareness check: |
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Go
to the Google
, Yahoo
or MSN
website and type in your website's URL, www.yourdomainname.com,
in the search box and do the search by clicking
the Search buttom. The search
results should appear in less than a second.
What the research
results tell you:
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If
your website's domain name or URL is listed
in the search results, your site has been
indexed.
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If
just the domain name or URL is listed, it
tells you that your site has been indexed
but not crawled by the search engine spider.
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If
your domain name (or your web site title)
and several lines of descriptive text (the
description of the site content) indicate
the website has been crawled by the search
engine spider to determine the website's
content.
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2.
Indexed pages check
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Go
to the Google
, Yahoo
or MSN
website and type in site:www.yourdomainname.com
in the search box and do the search
by clicking the Search buttom.
What the research
results tell you:
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It is a list of the
pages of your website indexed by the queried
search engine. At the top right of the search
results screen shows ' Results X - Y of
about Z from www. yourdomainname.com for
' . The value for Z indicates the total
number of pages indexed by the queried search
engine for your website.
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From
the list, you can identify which pagehas
beed indexed and you may consider some actions
on the non-yet-indexed pages in your site.
Keep
in mind that it takes a while for a search engine
to find a new page, and also that the spider,
also called the crawler or bot (for robot) visits
a web page, reads it, and then follows links
to other pages within the site.
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3.
Inbounds link check |
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You
may have heard or participated in "link
exchage" or "reciprocal link exchage"
to improve the search engine ranking for your
website. It is important to do so because the
number of inbound links is a very important
factor in the ranking algorithms of the major
search engines. There are many softwares on
the internet for you to check the inbound links,
however using particular search engine to do
the job is more important, the reason is quite
straightforward, only those inbound links found
by the search engine will be counted in its
ranking calculation. The commands is:
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Go to the
Google
, Yahoo
or MSN
website and type in your website's URL, linkdomain:www.yourdomainname.com,
in the search box and do the search by clicking
the Search buttom.
What
the research results tell you:
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The results
from Google and MSN search engines will list
all the inbound links from other website only,
but Yahoo will list inbound links from other
websites as well as links within your website.
Some articles
said to use a different comand on Yahoo such
as "linkdomain:www.yourdomainname.com
site:www.yourdomainname.com"
to exclude the links from your own website,
but I found no difference on my computer.
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It
is quite normal if you found a different result
from different engines. Recently, Google began
displaying limited or no results from the 'link'
command. The general conclusion from the search
engine optimization community was that Google
felt disclosing the link information might possibly
share too much information regarding their ranking
algorithm and its impact on a specific website.
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From
these three simple checks you should be able
to find out your website visibility to the thr
top search engines and possile visibility to
most of internet users. Proper actions must
be taken if you are disappointed or not satisfied
by the findings or you hope to increase the
visibility of your website to internet users.
How to do it? Follow
the
tips to promote your website in the article
listed below.
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