why doesn't my own website come up in search engines, when i type the domain name in?

Question

ive made a free website through microsoft live beta for my partners business, but when i type in the domain name in any search angine it doesnt find it , like it doesnt exsist.What am i doing wrong? any advise but be very grateful

Answer 1

You have to submit your site everywhere where is possible first and put few links on your site pointing to another recognisable ones. Good Luck! P S it will take some time

I am not agree with Number one answer: avoid paying, especially pay per click. I did try everything and the most sensible was submission by myself and very cheap advert at some blog website. All that expensive good for nothing adv sites are don't worth one single penny spend on them

Answer 2

Hi there,

You absolutely do NOT have to pay to be in the organic search listings. I think some of the other answers have your questions mixed up with pay per click, when you do a search usually the top two or three answers on the page in a blue or yellow box are paid and all the listings on the right hand side.

The engines have not found your site. You need to get your website link on a another site that does get spidered quite often to get listed in a timely fashion. You also should take some time to learn about organic search engine optimization if you plan to take this site even further.

Good luck,

IMH
http://www.searchmarketinglab.com
http://www.marketingtips.com/searchmarketinglab

Answer 3

You do NOT have to pay the search engines to get listed. You just have to give them a little time to find you. The only way they'll find you is if you get some other sites linking back to you. You can do that a couple different ways:

1. ask the owner of another site that is already listed to add a link to your site.
2. post some comments in forums and discussion groups and include a link to your site in your signature file (don't spam!)
3. write an article and submit it to ezinearticles.com
4. start a lens on squidoo and link to your site

If you do #2-4 you should be listed within a day or two

Answer 4

metas are an important part of S.E.O ( search engine optimisation ) but the problem with most search engines is there is not 'much' point in submitting your site, because as soon as you have just 1 incoming link, most will find you - places like google dont rate you by the metas or popularity of your site ( metas are just there to describe your site to potentual visiters ), they rank by 'quality' 'on subject' links

Answer 5

Small Business Marketing Strategy: Target the up-and-coming search engines

While Google still rules the roost when it comes to Internet search engines, and Yahoo is firmly entrenched in second spot, a number of new start-ups are hoping to give them a run for their money. And a good small business marketing strategy would be to check them out and see how you can make them work for your site!

Some of the new up-and-comers include:

Powerset (www.powerset.com): A "natural language" search engine

Hakia (www.hakia.com): A "meaning-based" search engine

Wikia(www.wikia.com): A "community-based" search engine

ChaCha(www.chacha.com): A "social networking-based" search engine

Snap (www.snap.com): A search engine that offers visual previews

It's a smart small business marketing strategy to continue optimizing for the Google, Yahoo, and MSN search engines as they are by far and away the most popular -- but niche search engines could provide new opportunities to reach your market. Be sure to check them out!

Answer 6

ignore all those that say you have to pay to get into a search engine - even if you pay - that is to review the site there is no gaurantee that the search engine will include the site.

You have not posted the URL so I can't tell you specifics.

To get into the search engines, their spiders have to find you. Best way to that is to get links from other sites that in your chosen search engine.

If you have only just put the web site up - it takes time.

Answer 7

First of all, you have to make sure you have appropriate meta tags. Search engines can't find you if they don't know what they are looking for. Secondly, you need to submit your website to different search engines. This does not cost money, although you can pay money for highlighted listings at the top or side of the page.

Answer 8

If you are concerned with only Google search then its probably in the sandbox awaiting :o), unless you have some good authoritative links going to your site. You will be in the "SandBox" for awhile unless you start link building and networking while this is one example there are many other things that can help you start to rank and get you out the BOX

Answer 9

It has not been submitted yet. The major search engines also may not accept it because it's free.

Answer 10

Microsoft may not be allowing search bots to crawl the free pages. Try MSN or check with them!!