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Have your website indexed by search engine? if haven’t then you could do manual submit using Creating online. You might also use free submitter, such as http://www.submitexpress.com.

But being indexed hasn’t yet enough. you still have to optimize it so that your pages on website can be indexed as much as possible and gaining best positions on search engine results page (SERP). There are many techniques (the free ones) that can be used to optimize your website.

Some Files You have to prepare:

If the search engine haven’t indexed your website, it means the search engine are lazy, so you have to invite them to your site by giving them some files that describes your site. Some of the files are:

• sitemap.xml (or it’s compressed version sitemap.xml.gz) : This file contain list of URL that describes your website and introduce it to google.
• urllist.txt (or it’s compressed version urllist.txt.gz) : the same as sitemap, but for Yahoo!.
• ror.xml : URL lists that can be broadcasted/syndicated via RSS Feed.
• sitemap.html : URL lists on HTML format.

Making URL Lists

IF you haven’t understand how to program using xml, then dont you worry. You still can make uRL lists without having to code it by yourself. There are many providers on the Net can be utilized. Some of them online, such as ttp://www.xml-sitemaps.com, or you could install some softwares on your computer, such as GSiteCrawler (http://gsitecrawler.com).

Upload URL Lists to Web Hosting

Now upload the files to your web server. on it’s root directory (for example on public_html). This files will be automatically detected by BOTs sent by search engines.

For sitemaps, you could use Google Webmaster tools, and submit your sitemap. Google Webmaster tools also offers many superb facilities for webmasters so that the webmasters know the positions of their websites on google’s eye hence can optimize it.

RSS feed is a method for broadcasting your site. It’s a xml file that describes your site condition so that everyone can access it. Usually the description on rss feed only contain teaser of the article.
RSS feed consists of items. Each item represents article on your website. An item usually consists of TITLE , DESCRIPTION (this is where the teaser located), URL (url which the viewer should click to open the article’s full version). Each item should be opened with <item> tag and closed with </item> tag.

<item>
<title>My New Article</title>
<description>Hey guys, i guess it’s already a long time not writing on this blog… bla…bla…bla…</description>
<link>http://yourblog_URL.com/2008/10/10/new-article</link>
</item>

One rss file can contain many items that represents the amount of articles you’d like to broadcast. A RSS file should also contain Title, Description and Link that describes the root address of your blog, for example:

<title>Your blog's Title</title>
<description>Everything about Computer</description>
<link>yourblog_URL.com</link>

The information of your blog should be contained inside the <channel> and </channel> tag, but outside the <item> and </item> tag.

Insert the version of your RSS feed by using:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

So the complete code should be:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<rss version=”2.0″>

<title>Your blog's Title</title>
<description>Everything about Computer</description>
<link>yourblog_URL.com</link>

<item>
<title>My New Article</title>
<description>Hey guys, i guess it’s already a long time not writing on this blog… bla…bla…bla…</description>
<link>http://yourblog_URL.com/2008/10/10/new-article</link>
</item>

<item>
<title>Old article Article</title>
<description>Old article’s contain…</description>
<link>http://yourblog_URL.com/2008/10/10/old-article</link>
</item>
</channel>

</rss>