To determine if you website is being indexed (or included) in the search engines is to have another website link to you. This website needs to be indexed in the search engines and the more link value (important/popular) the website has will determine (1) how fast (2) how it affects your own search engine rankings.
For example: If CNN.com links to a new website that website may be indexed within hours. But if JoeNobody.com links to you it may take weeks or months to get indexed, but have little or no affect on your search engine rankings. Think of search engine optimization as a big popularity contest; the more links (or popular) you are online the higher your search engine rankings will be.
Steps To Get Indexed (or listed) in Google, Yahoo, and MSN fast:
1. Check to see if you are already indexed
2. Submit to web directories, article directories, and social bookmarking sites.
Step 1: Type this into Google, Yahoo, and MSN:
site:amtutoring.com
site:
A M Professional Tutoring Services Inc.
This will tell you how many pages are being indexed by that search engine. I tell clients to type both of them in because if the results are different you need to take further steps to correct it.
In AmTutoring case the results I find are:
Google: 6
Yahoo: 1
MSN: 1
Step 2:
Before I go in to step two let me ask you the question, do you know how & why your website is indexed in the search engines currently? Remember the only way your website gets indexed is (1) you submit your website to each search engine (2) or someone else links to you.
Do you know why?