What Happens When I Submit my URL to a Search Engine

What Happens When I Submit my URL to a Search Engine?

1. The search engine’s spider visits your site immediately and decides when to make a real visit.
2. A couple of weeks (maybe 6) later, the spider comes back and records the information from your site, filling its database (one darn big database if you ask me). Unfortunately, the algorithm (and everything about it) is secret, so we can’t do anything but guess how many pages of your site the spider will actually visit (referred to as crawled) or how many of your pages make it back to the database. Usually, on the first time around, it will be only a few pages – or only the home page.
3. The spider revisits your site to grab any changes you’ve made. Once a page is in the database, the spider will go back to new sites based on how often you make changes and it will start to look at more pages. We will cover the ways to make the spider search more often later. Once your first page is in the database it is a good idea to make a link from that page to your site map – it is very important to have your site map spidered.
4. When people use a search engine, they type keywords into a search box on the search engine’s website. They are submitting a query. The search engine, depending on algorithms, will pull up all of the sites relevant to that query.

It’s thought that Google’s algorithms are also programmed to place emphasis on sites that are listed a manmade directory. However many top SEO’s argue this holds less weight today. It is a good idea to get listed in as many directories as possible. This simple piece of software can save you a lot of time and effort: Directory Inclusion.