Rookie IM Question..Do you have to submit sites to google/yahoo or do they just find your site?

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I just want to take my first shot at IM and wasn't sure what the process is for indexing your site on both.

Please help. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author Sillysoft
    The best route is to create webmaster accounts with both bing and google and submit your site along with an xml sitemap to each webmaster tool. It will help the search engines index your site faster.
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    • Profile picture of the author LloydC
      You can submit your site manually, but it can take up to 6 weeks to get indexed.

      A much faster way is to create an account on digg and/or stumbleupon and link to your site with a social bookmark, you should get indexed within a few days.
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      • Profile picture of the author jchoros
        Originally Posted by LloydC View Post

        You can submit your site manually, but it can take up to 6 weeks to get indexed.

        A much faster way is to create an account on digg and/or stumbleupon and link to your site with a social bookmark, you should get indexed within a few days.

        I don't know what xml means and can you provide links to where i can go to open webmaster accounts with each Search Engine?
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  • Profile picture of the author cijenterprises
    Thank you for the info Lloyd
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  • Profile picture of the author alamest
    If you submit your website sitemap to Google webmaster and Bing webmaster account than they will find you quickly..

    Usually they takes time to find you but if you do the above steps, they will find you quickly and index your website on search engine much faster and you might get visitor as well..

    If you are using wordpress than use the plugin Wordpress SEO Yoast, if you go to the plugin section and click on popular than you will see this name..

    I hope this help you..
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Franklin
    I find that setting up my site on BOTH Google Webmaster and Google Analytics does the trick in almost every instance!
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  • Profile picture of the author Brian Maroevich
    If you use Wordpress there are several plugins that build you xml for you. If you don't have it get your webmaster tools account up, and then upload the page and verify it. Then, be sure to get links to your site as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author sanjx01
    Ping your site That will get the search engines to see it.

    ~S
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  • Profile picture of the author Vija
    It seems that Google is not indexing new sites that much faster nowadays.
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