Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the most important factors in Internet Marketing.  At the very basic level, ensuring your website or blog is performing well in Search Engine Results Pages (SERPS) of the top ten search engines is absolutely pivotal if you are to start making sales.

To perform well in SERPS, you have to make sure your website or blog has been submitted and indexed with all of the top ten search engines in the first instance.  Sadly, a lot of new and even experienced Internet Marketers fail to do this and if they do, they focus solely on Google.

While Google is without question, the top of the heap, failing to submit your website or blog to rest of the top ten search engines is a sure fire way to lose other precious traffic.  Not everyone uses Google, you know!

So here are some tips on how to get your new website indexed with the top ten search engines as soon as possible.

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Create Quality Content

The top ten search engines all “crawl” the Internet on a regular basis to find new websites to index, but your site must meet specific criteria and be of a suitable quality before it will be indexed.  Creating at least 5 pages of high quality, relevant content and internal links will ensure that your website will be indexed as soon as it is discovered.

The key here is to ensure the content is high quality and relevant to your niche.  It is not sufficient to simply put words and images on a page.  The words must be informative, interesting and inspiring. The images must be sharp, clear and relevant.   However, the most important factor is that your content is search engine optimized for your niche.

Always remember that judgement on the relevance, validity and suitability of your website for indexing is not a human process, it is a complex process of analysis by the search engine bots.  As you develop your website, your content will need to appeal to human beings, but for indexing purposes, SEO is the most important factor.

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking sites such as Del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, Digg and Blinklist are given a lot of attention and are very regularly “crawled” by all of the top ten search engine bots.  Submitting your website to social bookmarking sites gives the “crawlers” a number of short cuts to finding you.

Social bookmarking is an incredibly powerful promotional tool in the online business world because it makes your website highly visible.  Unlike SERP, which is essentially based on what the search engine bots assume and calculate about your website, social bookmarks are the result of public opinion and human actions.  The human cognition factor is largely considered to be more valuable than using traditional search engines.

In addition to using social bookmarking yourself, install social bookmarking icons on your pages to enable your visitors to bookmark your website too!

Place Comments on Relevant Blogs

Using one of the top ten search engines, search for relevant and popular blogs within your niche.   Read one or two recent posts on approximately 5 different blogs and submit an interesting comment that contributes to the discussion on each one.  The key here is to make a valid comment about the topic that gives the blog owner reason to approve your comment.  Be sure to include a link to your website in the URL field.

The top ten search engines all place huge value on the number of backlinks coming into your website from other sites and your site is unlikely to get indexed without some of those ever elusive backlinks!

Here’s a good blog  search engine resource ==> http://www.commenthunt.com

Article Marketing

Write and submit a few 400 – 500 word, high quality articles about an aspect of your niche to an article directories.  Article directories such as EzineArticles, Go-Articles and Articles Base, are all well-respected, authority websites with high page rankings.  This means they command the attention of the top search engines which gives the “crawlers” another opportunity to find and index your website.

The key factor here is your effective use the author resource box, which should include who you are, what you do, and most importantly a link to your site.

Here’s a good article submission resource ==> Unique Article Wizard Submission

Social Networking Sites

Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace are another great way to share links to your website and get your website noticed and indexed by the top ten search engines.  Depending on the level of your following, your new website and your content could circulate FAST!

These are just a few of the techniques that can help your new website get found and indexed by the top ten search engines quickly and efficiently.  Many of the top ten search engine and most of the smaller search engines such as DMoz.org also accept manual submissions!

Here’s a good mass social bookmarking resource ==>  Bookmarking Demon and http://www.onlywire.com

This article promised you 5 top tips to get your website ranked with the top ten search engines… but as always, I’m going the extra mile and give you one more top tip!

High Quality Backlinks

Earlier we discussed backlinks and how they are hugely valuable for getting your website ranking well in SERPS.  To expand on this, backlinks are essentially a link from another website to yours which the top ten search engines bots interpret as a sign of authority.  The more backlinks you have the more worthwhile your website is seen to be and therefore, your website goes up the rankings.

Gathering high quality backlinks is an incredibly time consuming process and website owners often outsource this task to a reputable and reliable backlinking service such as  my service High Quality Backlinks.  Backlinks are not all created equal, and it is important that the incoming links to your site are from websites with high page ranking and are DO-FOLLOW links.  My expert backlinking service can generate high quality, effective backlinks to your website, leaving you to focus on building your new site and ranking them in the top ten search engines.