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Submitting to Google

The absolute best way to get listed with Google is to get links to your Web website from other websites. Indeed, this is the best way to get listed for free with all the major crawlers listed on this page. Crawlers follow links, so if you have good links pointing at your Web website, the crawlers are more likely to find and include your pages in their databases.

Here's the good news: if you submitted your website to the major directories and got listed with one of them, then Google and other crawlers will almost certainly pick up the URL that was listed. This means you may not need to do additional work to get listed with crawlers.

Aside from link building, Google provides an ADD URL page that lets you submit a URL directly to its crawler. However, there's no guarantee that Google will actually include a URL submitted to it this way.

In addition to the , Google offers other options to submit a large list of URLs (a sitemap file) and verify ownership of your website within Google Webmaster Central for faster indexing, free of charge.

Once you have completed one of the options above, you really don't need to submit more than this. The only reason for submitting some of your inside pages is to give Google an alternate route into your website in case there is a problem reaching your home page.

If you have a brand new Web website, it will probably take about a month before Google lists your web pages naturally. Because of this, you might consider making use of its paid placement program Google AdWords.

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