How do I index a site?

The easiest way to make search enginesthe system learned about your site - put it on the indexation manually. Otherwise, you will have to buy links from external resources in order for the crawler to find your site. Now about how this happens.

How to index a website in a search engine

If you are interested in the inflow of traffic from Yandex, thenTo put a site on indexation, in other words, to report about it, it is possible here. You can place a site for indexing in the Google search engine in the section of the webmaster, but for this you need to have an account in the system.

Now search engines know about your site. But this did not end there. You need to know that the position in the SERP is affected by the internal linking of pages and the frequency of site updates. As an example: if you update the site about once a month, the next time the search robot "comes" to you a little later than it was in the beginning. Therefore, the best way in search engine promotion is to update the content of the site as often as possible. Links inside the site to external sources should be exclusively thematic, otherwise it will reduce the result and the place in the system's search engine output. To further index the site, you will need to create a robots.txt file. About him and beyond.

How to index a site - creating robots.txt

A robots file.txt can be created in a Word or in Notepad. If you want search engines to index the entire content of your site, you can simply add a robots.txt entry to the root directory of the site. This is especially true for new sites that need any traffic from the PS.

Yandex has several search enginesrobot-headers, but the main one is Yandex. So, you need to register after the user-agent directive: yandex. If your portal is news or contains a huge number of photos, then after recording the user-agent you need to put yandexImages or yandexnews. The second directive should be the open / closed status of the page for indexing. Accordingly Dissalow for the open, and Privat for the information closed to the search robot. A complete example for a page with pictures for Yandex: User-agent: YandexImages / Dissalow / For more information on creating roots.txt for Yandex, see here.