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Getting There With Search

Six steps you can take to help search engines find and index your content

You’re trying to get your website noticed and search engines are an excellent channel for visibility. In this article, we’ll look at some basic things you can do to make sure your content is being indexed by search engines. The more of the items you can implement below, the more noticeable your site will be to the search engines. 

1. Check your “Robots.TXT” file One little line of code in a simple txt file can be very costly if it’s blocking your site from search engines. A robots.txt file allows you to tell search engines to crawl or not crawl certain directories or files in your site.

For example, this simple line of code disallows all crawlers (a.k.a. robots):

User-agent: * Disallow: / To find your robots.txt file simply type in your domain followed by /robots.txt. For example, here [...]
URL : http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2010/03/11/getting-there-with-search/
Date : 2010-03-11 23:24:00
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Author : Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog

Official blog from the Yahoo's online advertising program.
http://www.ysmblog.com/blog

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