What does it take to get listed on a search engine?

[rnmcd]

Neither my domain nor any of the text in my forums is found by google or yahoo searches.

Is it just a matter of time or do I need to be active in getting listed.

[ManagerJosh]

anywhere from a week to three months.

[Joseph777]

anywhere from a week to three months.

is this an exact science? or can it take even longer? just curious...

[rnmcd]

so once you get listed, on Google for example, they must 'index' your site quite frequently. I have posts I've made on site that are 'found' on google a day or two later.

[Yngtchie]

Search for 'yngtchie' on Google.

[Dean C]

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a very important factor in any site nowadays. There's lots of great resources over at sitepoint as well as many helpful users in the forum. Check it out @ http://www.sitepoint.com

[rnmcd]

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a very important factor in any site nowadays. There's lots of great resources over at sitepoint as well as many helpful users in the forum. Check it out @ http://www.sitepoint.com

Basically all that I've found out at sitepoint is that I should have links on other sites to the site I want listed....so far that hasn't worked.

Any other ideas?

[Floris]

Add the URLs to your sections to google, get linked back on other sites, and wait.

It will come eventually, starting with a level 1 deep scan.

[rnmcd]

Add the URLs to your sections to google

How is that done?

My sections?

[Floris]

My site exists of : chat, frontpage, forum, style, .. etc

I submit them seperatly.

[Dean C]

How is that done?

My sections?

Try over at www.seochat.com - some great articles

[rnmcd]

My site exists of : chat, frontpage, forum, style, .. etc

I submit them seperatly.

How do you submit them? Do the various search engines charge a fee to accept a submission?

[ManagerJosh]

Some do. Others like google don't.

[James Kojiro]

If you want a higher pagerank, submit your site to dmoz.

[rnmcd]

Do you think the reason I am not listed on search engines is because I have a "whois guard" (it masks my domain registration information) for the domain?