Only a short post this week, and actually a follow up to last weeks SEO Tuesday, as a lot of that was about getting into Google, Yahoo and MSN.

How Do I Check If My Site Is In Google?

Just type your website address in the Google search box. If Google knows about your site, it will tell you. If your website doesn’t come up as a result, you need to submit your site to Google. Another way to check if a page is in either of the search engines is to lift a piece of unique text from the page, put it in a search “in quotes”. Your page should come up.

How Do You Submit A Site To Search Engines?

You do not need a seo agency to submit your site to Google. You don’t pay to get into any of the big search engines. As I have said many times in the past, the best way to actually get into Google and the other top search engines is for the search engine spider to find your site through a link that is already on another website which Google already has in it’s index. A link from a blog, forum or other website. Any link will do as long as Google sees it as a link. For example, if you have a web design company, join a web design forum that allows you to put a link to your website in a signature. When it comes to links, think how relevant the page is your wanting the link from to your website. Many think relevant links are very important.

You could of course think about submitting your site to directories like Yahoo or (if you can stand to wait years if you are unlucky) DMOZ or asking other sites in your niche to link to you.

But if you are very lazy, you could just tell the search engines about your site. Not that I ever recommend this sort of thing:

Did you know when you link to a Hobo SEO post we have search engine friendly links back to your site if approved? Our comments are also search engine friendly you know (once you've commented on a few posts)! Do you need any more encouragement to get involved in the conversation ;)