If you have a new site your trying to get indexed and not having much luck try a couple of things... Link to it from a forum signature. This has always paid off for me. However some forums will need you to contribute to the forum before allowing you to do this. Get links from free directories. Submit your site to DMOZ and the other 1000s of directories out there. Use Google and Yahoo sitemaps. This can often help a site to get completely indexed. Somethings not to do are... Spam forums Spam blogs Spam guestbooks Good luck with your websites.
Hi Congrats on the 2000...Keep the tips coming Just like to add - the links that you get should not all point to your homepage and you need to link to your inner pages as well
Try linking to your sitemap from your forum signature. I haven't tried it but it could help get a site indexed.
If you think about it you would be linking to the page that should have a static link to all pages on your site. So is should help to get the site indexed. I would try it if I had a site that wasn't fully indexed.
Good post and congrats, Gazelle! I'd recommend submitting to Yahoo! via the FREE option as well (if your site qualifies). The last three sites I submitted were accepted within a week.
I should mention that I submit the sites before ads are placed on them. ...and they're 'non-commercial'
I've recently done this and had amazing results. New site was listed within a couple hours and immediatley deep crawled. 200+ pages indexed.
Sorry to post twice in a row, but there is a little trick to getting indexed in yahoo without having to wait for a very long time or paying. Take an RSS feed or sitemap from your site and add it to your "MyYahoo" as a feed. Yahoo will start crawling the site It's worked every time I've done it, but it's been a few months since I tried last.