Getting Your Pages Indexed – No Need to Submit to Search Engines!

November 24, 2008 by Butterfly Filed under: SEO

I still see a lot of people offering submission services, and I still get a lot of people asking me if I can submit them to he search engines as part of my SEO service, so I’m writing this article just to point out to those who’re not yet aware – that you don’t need to submit your site to the search engines.

Everything else about SEO is pretty useless if you don’t get your web pages on the search engines, so of course you need to be indexed on Google and the other main search engines, but you don’t need to submit to get indexed. In fact, submitting would take a lot longer than the way you’re about to learn.

Just get a backlink to your new website, from a website which is already indexed, and the search engine bots will follow your link next time the page is crawled.

Simple eh?

But :

The better link popularity of the site linking to you, the quicker the backlink is likely to get you indexed. (check the google pagerank tool for a PR2 or higher website, to get indexed within a week or so)
Ensure that it’s not a no-follow link. Some links, especially within blog replies, are set to nofollow, you don’t want them – it means the crawlers will not follow the link to find your site. You can use tools such as the SEO for firefox addon for the mozilla firefox browser, to highlight nofollow links.

& don’t forget, you need your sub pages to be indexed too. Building a sitemap & registering this with Google, is a good way to ensure that all of your sub pages are indexed, but just having a good navigation system on your website will also do it.