Soliciting Search Engines for Traffic
If you’re brand new to website ownership, your site is launched and you’re not getting any visitors or website traffic…
It’s time to tell the search engines your website exists. These numbers are not exact by any means, but depending on your market, 40-60% of all search engine traffic that is sent by any website will come from Google. Yahoo will send another 30-40% and MSN will follow closely behind Yahoo. There are a number of smaller search engines that both humans and the search engine robots use to create listings and links, but these are the big three.
Perhaps the easiest way to generate and ensure a steady stream of traffic is to create your content on a weblog (blog) that you add content to often and that generates an RSS Feed.
Your RSS Feed is your easy pass to search engine submissions. Once a search engine spider or robot knows about your feed, it will follow the links within to your full pages of content and any links from those pages as well.
Do this once and you need never worry about getting listed in the search engines again. (Of course one day you’ll want to learn about how to get higher positions on the big three, but for now let’s just get them to notice you.)
The easy way to alert Google, Yahoo and MSN of your site/feed is to visit each and create ’start’ pages on each of them. A Google homepage, an msn account and ‘my Yahoo’. This is all free and each one just takes a few minutes to set up. Even if you are ‘new’ this will take no longer than a few hours.
The trick is to add your own site’s rss feed url to each of the home, start, or account pages you’ve created. This forces the search engine spiders to follow the feed links. This is remarkably easy to do - once your page has been created, look for the tab that says something like ‘add content’, ’submit an RSS feed’, or ‘watch a site’. This is where you enter the url for your blog’s RSS feed.
Remember, the more you update/add content to your site, the more links will be created and therefore more visits from the spiders and bots.
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