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How to Get Your Website On a Search Engine?

The fastest way to get your website on a search engine is to build a backlink to your website. What is a backlink? A backlink is a link from another website (which is already in the search engine index) to your website.

Search engines find websites by crawling through links. So a link on another website acts as a gateway through which the search engine can reach to your website. Once the search-engine reaches your website, your website will automatically be included in the search engine’s index. So let us find out how to build a backlink.

How to Build a Backlink to Your Website?

There are many ways by which you can build a backlink to your website or blog. Here are a few simple ones:

1.) Submit an article: There are many websites out there that accept article submissions. In fact, this website (Outofstress.com) in itself accepts article submissions. To submit an article, just register here. After registering (which only takes a few seconds), write an article on your favorite topic and include a link to your website at the end of the article. Once your article is approved (happens within 1 day), it will be made live on this website and your website will get a high quality backlink from here. This is a good way of getting a high quality backlink to your website. High quality backlinks will help your website get picked up by a search engine quicker.

If you are unclear, read more about how to submit an article here.

2.) Commenting on a dofollow blog: Adding a comment on a ‘dofollow blog’ is another easy way of getting a backlink to your website. What is a dofollow blog? It’s a blog that does not add a ‘nofollow’ tag to your website’s URL in the comment. Search engines do not follow links that have a ‘nofollow’ tag.

There are thousands of blogs on the internet, but not all are dofollow blogs. So how do you find a dofollow blog? Just google the term ‘dofollow’ blog and you will come across many websites that list URLs to dofollow blogs. (A URL by the way is nothing but a website’s address.) If you are too lazy to do that, you can visit this website to find some dofollow blogs: www.dofollow.info

Find a few blogs that you really like, read their articles and comment on a few articles that you like. Make sure to add your website’s address in the comment form.

3.) Submitting your website to web directories: Another way of securing a backlink is to submit your website to web directories. Web directories are websites that list your website URL for free. The only drawback of this method is that it might take a few weeks before your website is reviewed by the directory staff and approved.

Just google for the term ‘web directories list’ and you will come across websites that offer free listings of web directories. Do not submit to more than 10 directories to start with.

Just make sure that you submit your website to the right category so it gets approved faster.

If you do all the above steps, your website will be indexed by search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing very fast. In-fact the more the links, the faster your site will get included in a search engine.

These are some simple ways on how to submit your website URL to a search engine for free. In addition to these three ways, there are many other techniques like link exchange, paid directories, advertising etc. through which you can get your website on a search engine. If you would like to know more, just leave a comment.

How Do You Know If Your Website Is In A Search Engine?

Use the following command to find out if your website is in a search engine. Just go to a search engine like Google.com or Yahoo.com and search using the following command:

Site:Sitename.com

Make sure to replace ‘sitename.com’ with your website’s address.

If your site is in the search engine, then the pages of your site will be listed in the results. If you see no listings, then your site has still not been picked up.

How Long Will it Take for Your Site To Be Picked Up By A Search Engine?

It can take at-least a couple of weeks after you have developed these links for your website to be included in a search engine like Google. Other search engines like Yahoo are a lot slower. But remember, the more the backlinks, the faster your site will get included. But do not overdo it as that could affect your site negatively.