Getting indexed in
Internet search engine is very important if you want everybody to know
existence of your web site. Imagine,
Internet is like
earth, and you web site is like a shop on earth. Unfortunately, unlike
real world, your shop is not visible; nobody's shop is visible. It is only visible after we enter
shop. So how would anybody know about your shop? In order to let everybody knows
existence of your invisible shop, you have to tell eveybody about your shop's address.In
early of 1996, I have developed a homepage, which I dedicated to a kind of music I really like. The homepage is hosted on Geocities(home of
longest URLs' homepage repository) free hosting service at that time. It is almost impossible for anybody to visit my site by accident because of
long URL. I tried to let everybody know
existence of my homepage, send emails, sign guestbooks, join forums, but I forgot( or I did not know that we have to submit our URL to)
search engines. The homepage got very few visitors, until I gave up and just let it be. And now, for your information,
homepage still exist, but I have already forgot
password. I do not know how many visitors it got per day now because
web counter service is also missing.
However, submit your web site's URL to
search engine is not enough to start getting visitor. It will take about two month for your site to be indexed in
search engine. You also need other plan or strategy to promote your web site. This article is only about getting indexed in
search engine. Here is some links to add your web site's URL to
Internet search engine or public directory.
Dmoz.org, The Open Directory Project To be indexed in this directory is
priority. It is
key to be indexed and to get a high rank in other search engines. There are thousands of search engines available in
Internet today. Many of them such as Google, Altavista, Yahoo and Netscape get
listing from dmoz.org.
The Open Directory Project is
largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of
Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. The Open Directory was founded in
spirit of
Open Source movement, and is
only major directory that is 100% free. There is not, nor will there ever be, a cost to submit a site to
directory, and/or to use
directory's data.