TBO Media Ltd

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post to dispel a few myths around Google, and what needs to happen when you have a brand new website built.

Q. Do I need to submit my website to Google?

No. Google is smart. Very smart. So smart in fact, you do not need to ‘submit’ your website to them, chances are they already know about it…

Google is a fully automated search engine that uses software known as “spiders” to crawl the web on a regular basis and find sites to add to our index. In fact, the vast majority of sites listed in our results aren’t manually submitted for inclusion, but found and added automatically when our spiders crawl the web.

- Taken from Google Webmaster Central

Q. What about the other search engines?

Yahoo and Bing however, do require a manual submission to get included in the index. The process is extremely simple and takes no longer than a few minutes, here are the links:

http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ (You will need a Yahoo account)

http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx

Q. How long does it take to get included in Google’s index?

Done correctly, you should see your website in the search engine index in about a week, although the past dozen sites we have built have been noticed in about 3days.

Remember – this differs from ‘keyword ranking’ which takes considerably longer, depending on the keyword.

Q. How do I know if my website IS in the Google index?

A quick and easy way is to put: ‘site:http://www.tbomedia.co.uk‘ into the search box and hit enter. No results? No indexed site for you…yet. This also works for Yahoo and Bing.