Search Engine Ranking
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In addition to the tips listed below, you might also be interested in reading more about how to make your website more visible to the world. More information can be found in Promoting Your Website.
Search engines use different methods to rank your site. Usually search engines rank the quality of your meta tag information, the occurrences of keywords on your web site, as well as the number of external links (sites linking to your site).
A combination of these rules leads to complex algorithms used by the engines. Many if not all engines also employ sophisticated "Spam Detection" routines, so be very careful not to try and fool the engines. If you spam, you will find out the hard way that it's just not worth it by low performance of your link or even your entire web site being removed and blacklisted from the engine.
How long does it take to get listed on the Search Engines?
After you have submitted your website to the search engines or have optimized it, the delay between submission and indexing differs from engine to engine. Some engines list your site immediately while hand-edited directories such as Yahoo may take several months.
Search engines receive thousands of submissions a day. Depending on the type of procedure for reviewing and indexing web sites, it can take some time for the search engine to check your site and then categorize it into their database. Certain directories can take up to three months to carry out checks of submitted websites and add them.
Another possible reason is that your site is not search engine optimized. To achieve good rankings, you need to have good meta tags and there are many other factors that will impact on your search engine listing. Study up on each engines rules or hire a professional SEO (Search Engine Optimizer) to ready your site and also consider having them promote it as well if you are really relying on search engines for driving traffic to your web site.
