Checking to see that your site is indexed in the search engines is actually really easy for ANYONE to do themselves.

Go to www.Google.co.uk and type into the search box “site:www.yourdomain.co.uk” without the quotes and see what is displayed. Remember that you need to be listed in the search engine index in order for the search engines to list you in their results pages.

Check the number of pages that are displayed and make sure that your important pages are listed. If all of your important pages on your site are not listed then you need to take steps to get them included in the search engine index.

Check the cache link on the listings to see the date that each page was last indexed but also to see what the search engine sees.

If your site is contructed entirely in Flash you will probably find the cache shows a blank page. Also if your site is framed the search engines will see a blank page. This is not good because the search engines will not have enough information about your site to rank it.

Do the same search in Yahoo! and MSN to see how those search engines rank your site. The different search engines often have a different number of pages in their index. It is commonly easier to get indexed in MSN, then Yahoo! and finally Google - the most influential of the search engines.

Contact Strategy Internet Marketing if you would like to know more about getting your site listed in the search engines and actively bringing good quality traffic to your site.

Kath