Getting listed on Google

[Sparkles1981]

Hi, I am new to all this so please bear with me

How do people get their website on Google where they have the link to their homepage and below it they have links to their contact page, about us, etc. Does that make sense? Will this happen automatically once google have found my site or do I need to do it myself somehow?

Any help hugely appreciated as I cannot for the life of me find an answer for this.

 

[Andrew Baker]

Hi, I am new to all this so please bear with me

How do people get their website on Google where they have the link to their homepage and below it they have links to their contact page, about us, etc. Does that make sense? Will this happen automatically once google have found my site or do I need to do it myself somehow?

Any help hugely appreciated as I cannot for the life of me find an answer for this.

These are site links and yes they are automatically served by Google based on what they think are relevant pages to display.

To get a degree of control sign up for Google Webmaster Tools and verify your site, there is a report for site links & you have the ability to demote ones you don't wish to be displayed > http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334

 

[Sparkles1981]

That's really helpful, thank you! Do you know roughly how long it would take before my site could be listed? I am about to launch a new retail website and feel that it would look a bit silly if it is not listed on Google yet. What do you think?

 

[fisicx]

It all depends on the site, the products and a zillion other things.

I've had sites indexed and ranked in a day or two. A large ecommerce site with lots of competition could take months to get indexed and a year or two to rank well.

 

[Andrew Baker]

That's really helpful, thank you! Do you know roughly how long it would take before my site could be listed? I am about to launch a new retail website and feel that it would look a bit silly if it is not listed on Google yet. What do you think?

Sign up for Google Webmaster Tools and submit your site, that will get the ball rolling...

 

[Ali-v-8]

Firstly so not to complicate things you are asking about SEO - you are also asking in the wrong section look here instead.
As for getting your website to page one of Google if you read through you will find out what you need to do.
Search engine optimisation = SEO which is promoting your website to google spiders.
The site links are created by optimising internal links to pages with in your website.
But before you run you need to walk.
In my opinion is that you need help and if you can afford it hire an SEO.

 

[newtonian]

As above, getting some help with SEO can be very worthwhile, even so it's important to have some idea about what required, the below site has some good advice on SEO and e-commerce for beginners, good luck.

netdragon.co.uk