Submit Your Website To Google? You Don’t Have To….
By Gerard McGarry on 27th March 2007, filed in Search Engine Optimisation. You can leave a response below. Tags: Google, SEO, Website Promotion
I’ve noticed that there’s a common misconception among new website owners that you have to submit your site to Google in order to get listed. I can’t remember the last time I’ve done this.
Here’s the truth about getting your site listed on Google: all you need is another site to link back to you.
How Google Works
Google is a crawler-based search engine. Sounds creepy, but what this means is that Google’s technology ‘reads’ the web by following links on web pages. It then makes an index of the information it finds and uses that index to return results whenever you do a Google search.
In reality, if another public website links to you, like a trade directory or a business partner, then Google will become aware of your website through that link. Simple as that.
I think that submitting your site to Google is a bit of a placebo. Instead, concentrate on getting quality links to your site. This has more long-term effectiveness as Google counts every link to your site as a vote of quality, and the link itself will provide visitors with another way to find your site.
Yeah likewise. I can’t remember the last time I submitted to any search engine on behalf of a client.
It’s definitely in the ‘links’. Get a decent link from a high PR page and you’re ‘in’.
I’ll be sneaking a peak at your wordpress tutorial shortly… Can never have too much info eh?!