Here is a little tip I picked up while doing some research into web site development and promotion. It is a simple but very effective way to get a web page listed in Google within just a few hours or less. Search engine submission programs are about as obsolete as the keystroke typewriter. Traditional submission programs are no longer really necessary and do not guarantee inclusion into Google. These days most web pages are found and indexed automatically, when one of Google's greedy little spiders crawl the web looking for fresh new content to devour. Once the Google spider crawls your web site, instantly it is listed into Google according to the rank it gives you and the way in which your pages have been keyword optimized. The way you can call one of the little information starved Google spiders to come to dinner is to do a search using the Google Toolbar. This will require that you first download and install the Google toolbar. To download the Google Toolbar go to http://toolbar.google.com/. (To learn all more about the various functions of the Google Toolbar go to: http://toolbar.google.com/help.html
How It Works: After you've downloaded and installed the Google Toolbar, notice the green PageRank strip just above the Google logo. Now rest your mouse cursor on top of the PageRank strip and a text box will appear showing the PageRank number of the site you are on. It shows a PR of between 0 and 10. Very few sites if any have a PageRank of 10. What you eventually want is a 4/10 or above. To get your web pages quickly indexed or listed into Google and Yahoo, enter the index page URL of your site into the Google Search box. Next, click the Search Web button next to it, and Google will
John Forman has been developing and promoting web sites covering an array of businesses, organizations, topics, and functions for several years. To see some of the resources and tricks he's picked up along the way, check out the page he's set up to share them here.