Balaji Ramanathan | Balaji Chennai SEO Expert

Getting “found” by Google

Google is currently making the transition from a monthly update process to a more or less “continuous” update process. 

Google’s Googlebot spider performs a “deep crawl” around the first of every month. Googlebot starts with the web pages that are already in the Google database, usually following each link on each page on the site.

The external links are then followed which will lead Google directly to your site. This procedure takes place without you having to submit your URL to Google at all.

Once Google has spidered and indexed your site, it won’t actually show up in the search listings until the next update (at the end of the month).

Depending on the current month’s schedule for spidering and indexing, it could take up to 6 weeks for your site to be added to the Google database and actually show up in the search results.

Of course just getting your site into Google is only half the battle. It does no good to get listed unless your site shows up near the top of the search results. That is where working on your site’s Page Rank (PR) comes into play.

Getting into Yahoo for free

While Yahoo has lost their dominance to Google, they are still the 2nd most used search vehicle on the web (and a close 2nd at that). Getting your site to show up in the Yahoo search results is imperative for a successful business website.

Yahoo search engine database is fed by a combination of a Google-style “free crawl” and a revamped paid-inclusion program.

The most efficient (and free) method of getting into the “new” Yahoo is the same as it is with Google – get some high-quality inbound links and Yahoo’s spider will find you on its own!