When will my Website be Listed in the Search Engines?

Whenever we build and design new websites our customers often ask us how long it will take until their new website is listed in the search engines. Getting listed is known as getting “indexed” -- just like an index in a book. Of course when you have a new website, especially if it’s your first one, you are eager to start seeing some traffic from the search engines…and often times get frustrated when your website doesn’t get indexed right away. Keep in mind that the search engines perform scheduled scans of the Internet to find new and interesting websites to include in their listings. If yours doesn’t get listed right away there’s no need to panic because there are a couple things that you can do yourself to expedite the process.

SUBMIT YOUR WEBSITE TO 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.

CREATE GOOGLE WEBMASTER ACCOUNT
Google Webmaster is a good tool to use in keeping track of the technical aspects of your website -- and best of all, it’s free! This is a great tool when it comes to letting Google know what pages your website has, and how many pages your website has. You can assure that all of your webpages on your website get properly indexed into Google by submitting a Google Sitemap.

To get started, you need a Google Account. If you don’t have one, you can sign up here. Once your Google Account has been created, you can activate your Webmaster account here: http://www.google.com/webmasters.

For some of you, you might need a little help from a programmer to install a verification code onto your website. This is to ensure that you have the authority to maintain the account linked with the website.

Once you have set up verification, you can then create a free Google Sitemap here: http://gsitecrawler.com/. Once you have created this, you must name it "sitemap.xml" and FTP it to your index file.

Once uploaded, you then need to go back to Google Webmaster Tools and submit the newly created sitemap to Google. Google will scan this on a regular basis and ensure that all of the pages you want indexed, are indexed.

Securenet Systems Announces New Radio Streaming Services Package

Securenet Systems Announces New Radio Streaming Services Package

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Diego Baeza
dbaeza@securenetsystems.net
Director of New Business Development

Securenet Systems
356 SW 12th Avenue
Deerfield Beach, FL 33442
(866) 568-9402

Deerfield Beach – February 17, 2009 - Securenet Systems, Inc., www.securenetsystems.net, a streaming services company in South Florida, announced that is has launched a new radio streaming services package for radio operators and station managers. The service is used widely by terrestrial and Internet stations world-wide for managing their streaming broadcast players and accessing associated services and support. Securenet Systems’ radio streaming package is newly equipped with ad replacement capabilities which allow the operator to easily replace commercials or shows on the live feed with different spots, add blackout features, and synchronize spots with banners for extra advertising impact. Scheduling ad replacement is simple and the operator has immense flexibility with setting up, monitoring, and tracking online ad sales. Ads can be randomly rotated or assigned specific scheduling.

Some other features of the new radio streaming package consists of audio or video pre-roll that allows the play of a specific audio or video file before the station stream kicks in, the ability to black-out content that cannot be licensed for online streaming, royalty tracking and accounting, synchronized banner ads to assign to play with a particular spot and banner sales tracking that tracks impressions and click-throughs. Each station is provided with two players; one for live streaming and one for on-demand streaming. The customizable players allow for the upload of ad banners and links and provide listener stats showing listener habits and traits. The radio streaming packages can accommodate the small market station, or provide for unlimited listeners in larger markets and all packages come with the same power-packed features.

Securenet Systems is located in Deerfield Beach, Florida and is one of the largest hosting and radio streaming companies and a leading provider of comprehensive business Internet services, serving the radio streaming market in over 200 countries and every US state. Securenet Systems offers a wide range of Internet services including high-speed website hosting, custom website design and programming, online marketing and search engine optimization, and radio streaming. We also offer an Affiliate Reseller Program that is available worldwide.
For more information on Securenet Systems’ new radio streaming services package, or to get a free demo on the radio streaming features, please visit www.radiostreamingservices.com, call toll-free (866) 568-9402 or email info@securenetsystems.net.

Google Penalizing Itself

Google Japan was recently penalized by Google for spamming the search engines. Google Japan, http://www.google.co.jp/, launched a new feature to their search engine and tried to get the word out about it. However, they ended up getting the word out the wrong way. They paid bloggers to write about this new feature and link it to Google Japan. Paying people to write/link to your website is not allowed in the internet world. When you get caught, you get penalized. When Google found out about this, they dropped Google Japan’s PageRank down to a 5, previously at 9! Basically, Google penalized itself. Yahoo! Japan is actually Japan’s #1 search engine and directory. Google Japan thought they could extend its reach by spamming, something Google despises! However…this backfired. Weird to think that Google would penalize its own search engine!?

According to the Nielsen NetRatings, Yahoo! Japan holds 44% of Japan’s internet searches while Google Japan holds 41%. Apparently that 3% meant a lot to Google Japan and they resulted to spamming.

See what great lengths people, and companies, go to just to be ranked better or have a higher status in the internet world? Many times, this is done without any respect to search engine optimization rules. This is why it’s important to read up on what to do and what not to do. Using the wrong techniques that are considered “illegal” can cost you big time. You never want to risk putting your website at jeopardy. In the case with Google Japan, they paid people to link to them. If you look at Google’s guidelines, paying for links and buzz is not allowed. It looks like Google is trying to set an example - you will get caught - especially since it’s penalizing its own baby!

How Google Alerts can Help You Find Copiers… and Cheaters!

Google has a free tool that allows you to monitor any search term on the Internet. Whenever Google picks up the search term you specify, you will receive an email with a link showing you where the search term can be found. For example, if you spend hours creating a report and publishing it onto your website, that content is owned by you and cannot be used/copied by anyone else claiming it to be their original content. For your benefit, you can use Google Alerts to alert you whenever your content is found on another website.

You first need a Google account. If you have one, perfect… If not, you need to create one by going here: https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&hl=en. Once your account is created and you have received a confirmation email from Google, you can start using and managing your Google Alerts.

Sign into your Google account and then go here: http://www.google.com/alerts.

Inside the box to the right is where you create your Google alerts. The most popular alert people set up is their domain name. Type in your domain name inside the “Search terms:” field. Leave “Comprehensive” selected. You can choose to have alerts emailed to you once a day, as it happens, or once a week. I find that receiving the alerts once a day is best, so that your inbox doesn’t get flooded with alerts from “as it happens.” Once you have entered in the information, click on “Create Alert.” This will take you to a page where you can manage all of your alerts. You can edit alerts, delete alerts, and add more alerts.

To add another alert, click on “New Alert” all the way to the right. You will then be allowed to type directly on the “manage your alerts” screen. For example, if you have recently created copy material on your website and want to make sure no one is stealing your worthy information, you can paste parts of your text into the search term area, even if it’s long. Anytime this text is picked up on another website, Google emails you with a link to the page your content is on.

By utilizing Google Alerts you can find out who’s stealing your content. Large companies use this tool when they create copyrighted material.