SEO For Dummies, 7th Edition

Chapter 15

Getting Your Pages into the Search Engines

IN THIS CHAPTER

Submitting your pages to the search engines

Creating, submitting, and pinging sitemaps

Working with Google and Bing webmaster systems

Using Google Search Console’s tools

Submitting to secondary search engines

You built your web pages. Now, how do you get them into the search systems? That’s what this chapter and Chapter 16 explain. In this chapter, I talk about how to get your pages into search engines, and in Chapter 16, I explain how to list your site with search directories.

You can attempt to get the search engines attention, to encourage them to find out about and index your site, in essentially three ways:

• Links pointing to your site
• Sitemap submissions and submission requests
• Simple link-submission pages

The most important of these is the first — links pointing to your site lead the search engines to it. They are an essential tool in convincing the search engines that your site is important (see Chapter ...