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Getting Your Site Seen By Search Engines
When people search for you on Google, does your site show up on page 1 -- or on page 20 -- of the search engine results?
Since 84% of internet traffic goes through search engines, being ranked highly by search engines will send you a huge number of prospective customers.
The Major Search PlayersLet’s start off with the major search engines, the ones that most people use. Google is the most widely used search engine, getting between 55-65% of all searches. Yahoo Search and Microsoft Bing lag far behind with a total of 15-20% each.
While there are thousands of search engines, it’s always a good idea to start with submitting your website to the three largest. Why? Because 95% of all searches go through either Google, Yahoo or Bing.
For Google, you can submit it here:
http://www.google.com/submityourcontent/#
For Bing, you can submit it here:
https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/legacy/submitsitepage.aspx
Because Yahoo uses Bing's search engine, you don't need to submit it separately to Yahoo.
Use Google's Webmaster Tools and Bing's Webmaster Tools to see the status of your submission, any errors the search engines found when crawling your site, and some great statistics about the speed of your site.
Other websites to list with!
- Citysearch
- DexKnows
- Kudzu
- Local.com
- MapQuest
- MerchantCircle
- MojoPages.com
- SuperPages
- Switchboard
- WhitePages
- YellowBook
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