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If you have a website but are disappointed the number of new customers that it produces it could be that your site is not very well indexed with Search Engines or even that its not listed at all.

Every time someone using the Internet wants to find a product or service they will type a short description of what they are looking for into a box on their computer screen and a search engine will then produce a list of sites that it thinks is what the person is looking for. The search engine that is used might by one chosen by the user or by their Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Most people have heard of the major players such as AltaVista, Yahoo and Lycos but there thousands of Search Engines on the Internet. Only about 50 are worth getting listed with if your market is or business is in the UK.

Because the Internet contains billions of websites the list of suggested sites produced by search engines can be huge. The trick is to make sure that your site is amongst the first few listed when someone is looking for your type of product or service.

That is a very difficult thing to achieve. To get a high listing for your website you have to go to each Search Engine in turn and fill in a series of boxes. The amount of information you have to fill in varies between search engines but allow about 10 minutes for each.

Unfortunately most of the Search Engines that you ask to index your site will not do so on your first request and when a Search Engine does index your site it will drop down the rankings or disappear over time. For these reasons it is important to go back to every Search Engine every month, see how your site is doing and resubmit as appropriate.

A word of warning though; if you submit too often or make a mistake which causes the Search Engine to think that you may be being dishonest, your site could be blacklisted forever!

If you do want your site to achieve high listings with Search Engines and allow your website to attract new customers there is an alternative. Call in a professional company such as FirstFound who will get your site your site indexed - guaranteed.

For more information visit Firstfound's website