Submitting to search engines

[LegsEleven]

Hi

I am new to website design, all that it entails and thuroughly enjoying it, although I do have a few unanswered questions.

I recently uploaded my website (2 months ago) after putting it into my personal web space approximately 1 month earlier on my ISP for testing purposes.

I am puzzeled why the search engines are ignoring the "finished site at its new home" after testing and getting all the validation tests and errors in code corrected after submission to them.

The strange thing is that most of the individual pages on the test site have been indexed and come out high in search engine results although this has not been submitted to the search engines, yet the site at its new home after submission is being ignored.

Is there any reason for this or do I need to be more patient and wait longer?

Also when submitting to the search engines should you submit every page on the site or only the main pages?

Thank you in advace for any help/advise on this puzzle.

[Dreamquick]

Get incoming links ... its quickest and most useful way to get your site found and indexed. Doing the free submit is useful but it doesn't always guarantee you a crawl.

- Tony

[nakulgoyal]

I agree with Tony's word. get a few incoming links and if you have a sitemap, try some links pointed to the sitemap as well. In a matter of 1-2 weeks, your website should be all indexed. Keep watching the Goole Bot in your server logs.

[LegsEleven]

Thank you Dreamquick and Nakulgoyal for your replies.

I have taken your advise and been contacting relevant webmasters and just waiting for replys from them.

My site is quite diverse in its subject matter so I have been looking for links to and from individual pages rather than the whole site. However, to and from some sites the content would be relevant for almost any pages.

Today 10 January 2004 I noticed that my site has just been crawled by googlebot14 so this is good news.

Once again thankyou for your advise.

LegsEleven.

Sorry I am not able to give my name or my usual handle as they apply directly to my website.

[madeonmoon]

My only other advice would be to submit (if you have not done so) your site to dmoz.org which will ensure that your site will get included in *many* other directories throughout the Net since many of them use data from dmoz.

HTH,
James