Search engine registration
Every page on your Web site that includes indexable text has the potential to act as an entry point for both crawlers and visitors. Many pages will rank very well in moderately competitive queries without any external linkage and without the benefit of internal link anchor text. On-page factors decide more than 99% of all query results in Ask, Google, Live, and Yahoo!
XML Sitemaps help sites generate crawling activity, which is a major benefit for new websites. You can drastically reduce your need for external links if you ping the major search engines with XML sitemaps. You don’t get the benefit of inbound link anchor text with XML sitemaps but you don’t have to wait weeks or months for the search engines to crawl your pages either.
- Get a Google account
- Get a Yahoo! account
- Authenticate site in Google webmaster tools
- Authenticate site in Yahoo! Site Explorer account
- Submit sitemap to Google
- Submit sitemap to MSN
- Submit sitemap to Yahoo!
- Google local
Only if appropriate (if your business is local oriented)
