How to Get Your Website to Show up on the Search Engines

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Check your index status.

   You can find out if your site's been indexed pretty quickly by doing a couple of simple searches.
   
   While your first thought may be "Google it," there are actually 2 primary search engines:
   Google and Bing.
   
   Note that Bing actually comprises Bing, MSN, and Yahoo.
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   Step 2: Go to Google.com and search for your URL.

   If it does not appear, it has not been indexed yet. , It's possible one will show as indexed, and the other not.
   
   Searching for your site's content as opposed to its URL could give you misleading results.
   
   For example, if you have a site about juggling, you do a search for "juggling" and don't find your site on the first few pages, you might assume it hasn't been indexed.
   
   But consider that "juggling" returns nearly 7 million results, and you will see that it's possible you are indexed, just not in the top 50 results.
   
   Or even top 5,000!
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   Step 3: Repeat with Bing.

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