When will my website be listed in the search engines?

Every now and then we will be posting frequently asked questions regarding online marketing with answers that can help clear up any confusion people might have. The question below arises out of the need of users to know when their newly created and designed websites would be listed in the search engines.

When will my website be listed in the search engines?

All search engines have different policies when it comes to adding websites to their indexes. Some search engines allow you to manually submit a request for inclusion, while others require you to wait until their “spiders” have “crawled” your website.

If you have a completely new website and would like to be included in Google’s or Yahoo!’s index without waiting for their spiders to crawl your website, you can visit these links, http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl / http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html, and manually add it yourself. However, there are sometimes long waiting periods until you are finally listed…it could take anywhere from 4-6 weeks until Google or Yahoo! updates their index with your search listing. There is also no guarantee that your website will get listed.