Getting your web site at the top of the rankings is highly competitive. When you're just putting up your web site there are some basic things you should know about how search engines spider and index your web site. Unless the search engines find your web site right away and index it, there is no way the general public will know that it is there.

Your web site be a dead duck in the water if you don't get noticed and ranked by the search engines. And, it's through their spiders that your web site gets indexed and ranked.

After you have created your web site and chosen the products or services you want to provide to your visitors, you will be ready to get your site listed with the search engines. In developing your marketing strategy, it is important to include a plan to get your web site spidered and indexed quickly. To get your site indexed you must let the search engine spiders know you are there in the first place.

You may have wondered if there are ways to lure the search engine spiders to your web site other than manual submission. The good news is that many SEOs (search engine optimization) recommend the following methods rather than submitting your pages directly.

The best way to get your site spidered quickly is to have incoming links your web site to another site that is already indexed and high ranking. These web sites should be highly related to your site's content. And they should be spidered frequently by the search engine spiders.

Having your site mentioned in news releases, blogs, and so on can get your web site spidered very quickly, sometimes within days. This is the second way to get the spiders to your web site and get indexed quickly. News releases and blogs are like testimonials. They add validity to your content.

You can also use the more traditional methods including posting in forums and providing articles for the various article directories. Articles provide some to the best ways to get incoming links to your web site. Do these right, and you will provide yourself with deep links into your web site. If you choose this route, be careful not to spam.

With online forums, follow the posted rules, give helpful answers to the problems and concerns of the people in your niche, and do not go overboard on your "signature file". Private forums are not always indexed, so make certain that the forums where you post display recent posts and are listed in search results. Yahoo forums are good for this and they have a forum on about any subject.

No matter which method you choose to get your web site spidered, you will need a good site map. A site map lists and links to all pages on your site. It is your "table of content" to your web site.

If your site consists of over one hundred pages, consider using a multi-page site map. Make certain that every site map page links to all your other site map pages. You should have a link to your site map on your home page and preferably a link on each of your web pages.

Make sure your web site pages are simple and free of useless clutter. Provide good and relevant content. The search engines, with their new algorithms for determining indexing and ranking, love good content. They want relevant content and want links coming into your web site from like content, high ranking sites.

Change your content by adding new content pages to your web site regularly. But not too fast. You don't want to appear as a software generated web site that grows too quickly. Grow your web site slowly, but consistently over time. Search engines like the human growth look of having more time to work on things in spurts of time. Not quickly, not too regular, but growing organically.

Getting your web site spider ed quickly is the most important thing you can do to achieve success with any web site, regardless of its purpose. Using the methods suggested above can be very helpful in getting your web site indexed and have repeat visits by the search engine spiders.

Jim Bruce has been a marketer since the beginning of the internet. He has helped many people find there true vocation online. His website: http://www.4makingyourownwebsite.com was developed to give you all the information you need to start your own online business.