FAQs on Search Engines
Q. What is the most effective way to get my site listed in Google?A. Submitting your site to Google's "Add URL" page can take 8-10 weeks to get your site listed. However, if Google does find your link on its own (i.e. through a link on another site) it will index your site much faster. We have been able to get our customers listed in Google in as little as five days. Another option would be to do a Yahoo! submit. Since Yahoo! and Google have a close relationship, Google automatically spiders sites accepted into Yahoo!. However, there is a drawback as the Yahoo! directory results are not pulled if you do a search in Yahoo!. Instead, Google produces the search results. If you can afford the $299.00 annual submission fee, your site will get instantly spidered and you will receive a boost in Google's PageRank system.
Q. How often does Google update its index?
A. Google updates their index hourly, which is why you are able to search on breaking news stories. However, only sites which Google deems as "most important" are included in these hourly updates. The rest of the sites are updated every few days or weeks. Google does one major update to their index per month and it occurs at ... more
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