how long does it take to get my website to show in searches?
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its normally 3 to 4 weeks but sometimes quicker the best way to check they are there is to put your whole web address in the search box and not just key words
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The first step is to submit your site in the search engines. But that will not make your site appear high in the search terms you want because search engines look for several factors in giving top rankings to sites.\n\nSearch engines look at the following factors in ranking websites, though in varying degrees of importance:\n\n- Age of the Content \n- Keyword density \n- How it fares in the results \n- Site structure \n- Backlinks\n\nIf you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com's "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm \n\nWebmasterWorld.com http://www.webmasterworld.com has different sections that cover various aspects of search engine optimization, and each section is participated in by respected webmasters and even search engine employees (e.g. there's a GoogleGuy that responds to Google topics)\n\nOther resources that can help you get top ranking in the search engines are:\n\nGoogle Press Releases http://googlepress.blogspot.com/ \nMatt Cutts Blog http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/  (Matt is a Google software engineer)\nDigitalpoint Yahoo Forums http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6\nSearchEngineWatch's MSN Forums http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8\nSEO for Google http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/google.htm\nSEO for Yahoo! http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/yahoo.htm\nSEO for MSN http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/msn.htm\nTying It Together: SEO For The Big Three http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/seo.htm\n\nAs for tools to help you get top rankings in the search engine, here are some of the best in the field today\n\nTotal Optimizer Pro http://www.totaloptimizer.com/\nKeyword density tool http://googlerankings.com/ultimate_seo_tool.php\nGoogle Sitemaps (to help Google index your pages faster) https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/siteoverview?hl=en
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Unless you pay for the listing, yahoo takes its time, until one of its crawlers comes and visits your site. Also, when you list your URL it means that they will go over it and eventually categorize it in their directory whenever they get to it. Look in your site management tools for visitation of crawlers. Once you have been visited by the "inktomi Slurp" Crawler, your site will start appearing in search results, similarly Microsoft's crawler is " MSN Bot"
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First of all, try getting your website listed in directories like Yahoo! Directory and DMOZ. Not only will more people be able to find your website, but it will increase your search ratings.\n\nUse your web address as your signature if you post on any forums. In Yahoo! Answers, include your web address in your profile.
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on most search engines it has to get a track from a certain source..and there may be things slowing down that source...  \n\ne.g. i use bearshare and normally it only takes a few seconds but there are times when it will take days, so i find a new source
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It's depends on your site and also on Search engines you are submitting your site to. Google approx. take 60 days to list your site submitted on Google. to Submit your site at google use "http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl" . I find Yahoo is pretty fast to list newly added site as comapred to Google. May be yahoo has less number of site queued to be listed as compared to Google.\n\nIf you have some specific question ? can be answered in detail. It's not very clear from your question.
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You need to get your site listed in the directory.\nI think the number of sites linking to yours will also effect your ranking.\n\nCheck out the link for more details.
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It can take anywhere from 3-4 weeks to 3-4 months for a site to be indexed by search engines.\n\nThere are things you should be aware about like good content, good structure, use of META tags in the HTMLs head section.  Choosing appropriate keywords and having relevant content to the keywors that you have chosen.  Inbound links from relevant sites and outbound links to relevant sites.  These are all contributing factors in your websites visibility.\n\nYou can also submit for a fee or for free into an appropriate category in the Yahoo directory.  You can also submit to various other directories.  These also increase your site's visibility.
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If your question is that you are unable to find your website when you try to search in search toolbar of Yahoo or Google, then answer is:\nYou need to submit your website at Yahoo and Google search submission page. After you have submitted then Yahoo and Google will include in respective website database. Once included, your website can be see in Yahoo and Google search. Submission can be made manually or using some tools.
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The first bit of advice I'll give you is to create a *much* simplified version of your site. Very few people are going to spend more than a few moments at your site when every single link leads to a 5-second flash animation. I got tired of waiting *very* quickly and I imagine other people will as well.
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When a webmaster tells us that his or her site has fallen out of our search results, we often find that it's still included. To quickly determine whether your site is still in our index, just perform a Google site search for its entire URL. A search for [ site:www.google.com ], for instance, returns the following results: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:www.google.com. If your site is displayed as a result when you perform a Google site search for your URL, then it's included in our index.\n\nWhile we're always working to include more content in Google, sites can occasionally fall out of our search results. Our spiders regularly crawl the web to rebuild our index, but keeping tabs on billions of pages is tough work, and we may miss a few. Due to the addition of new sites and updates to the content of existing pages, some pages may appear to no longer return for particular keywords. When this happens, it's generally the case that we haven't lost the page entirely, but simply that other pages now rank higher than it does for that particular keyword. Please be assured that these changes are automated, and that our crawlers don't intentionally discriminate against particular sites. Our aim is to represent the content of the internet as fairly and accurately as possible.\n\nWe understand that these changes can be confusing. If your site is well-linked from others on the web, it's likely that we'll add it again during our next crawl. While we can't guarantee that any page will consistently appear in our index or appear with a particular rank, our webmaster guidelines offer helpful tips for maintaining a crawler-friendly site. Following these recommendations should increase the likelihood that your site will show up consistently in our search results.
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First, cheat and look for your site by name to ensure it's even "in" the index.  Then, there are programs out there that you can buy that'll "scroll through" those 40+ pages for you and let you know where you're at.  Submission Wizard is one such program, but I know there's many more.
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you need to register it with the search engine.  After that it could takes months for it to register on the search.  Its not instant.
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search engines are like fishing nets. you can't always guarantee your site will show up at the top, just like you can't guarantee what kind of fish you'll get. spiderbots are constantly rescanning the web, postings are constantly appearing and disappearing, and these all affect your ranking.\n\nyour competitor may have had their domain registered longer, may have more things being written about them on the web, or may have more sites linking to theirs. \n\nthe other thing is there's often a substantial time delay in putting a site up (or modifying/optimizing it for search) and seeing a change in the results. \n\nthe only deals i've ever heard of that weren't scams were SPONSORED LINKS. i wouldn't trust anyone that said they had some "inside edge"... the big engines are public companies whose stock prices would be hurt if they did illicit side deals. \n\nmy recommendations: keep at it, make sure your content is easily searchable (in other words, more text than graphic or flash), make sure you follow the engines' guidelines for submission to a T, and see if you can get other sites (blogs, epinions, etc.) to have links back to your URL. generally speaking, the more people hosting links to your site, the higher your ranking will be.\n\nhope this helps.
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You have to register your website for it to show up on search engines. You can submit it for free at the following link - \nhttp://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html\n\nI'd suggest doing the same thing for google and any other search engines. The "spider" software goes out and searches for new content, but only after the site has been submitted once.
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if your site is like about cars, then you have to mention the word car at least 50 times because when your site gets spidered by search engines that will show up higher ranking.\n\nBut that doesn't always work anymore.\nTry joining  DMOZ.org and becoming an editor for the category your interested in.\n\nThat way you can see how the sites are ranked.\n\nAlso put a counter on your site that shows which search engines are sending traffic your way. Then you can concentrate on improving the searches.\n\nstef
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It can take weeks for your URL to be added