What is the fast method to get a site or a page indexed?How much time?
How do I know that a page is indexed?

Submit your site to the search engines and then go get links to your home page.

Some sites are indexed within days. Others take longer. There is no way to tell what will happen ahead of time.

Search for the URL. If it comes up, they know about it. If not, it isn't there yet.

Sign up with Google Webmaster Tools for details regarding how often Google crawls your site and other features.

... or, you can get yourself a Google account and use a SiteMaps. There is all the instructions at SiteMaps to get you going.

I use these for every web site. This way I need not concern myself with crawling, depth or frequency. I can pretty much control what webpages the search engine crawls and basically tell it when to come by for a visit.

You'll need to put your instructions to the searchengine in an XML files and upload that to your web server. Lots of free and good XML generators nowadays. Does all the stuff itself, just have to input the URL, check a couple of boxes and press GO. I use 'em all the time.



Now, this SiteMaps doo-hickey may not work well most of the time but you bet your auntie's poodle that it will work well at least sometime, soon.

Sitemaps is a part of Google Webmaster Tools

oh, well then I guess you already said what I said, more encompassing too. I am being accidentally redundant, I guess.

I better go look at those tools again so I don't come across as a guy that thinks he knows it all when in actuallity he hasn't a clue as to what's going on.

ya, tools, better go find them...

Assuming you mean the two pages in your signature, I think you already figured out some of the answer.

Usually a forum post with a signature link will get a page indexed within 24 hours in big G; Yahoo! and MSN tend to take between 48-72 (I've found). Punch in sitehttp://www.webmaster-talk.com/images/smilies/frown.gifdomain.com) to see if the page has been indexed in your favourite search engines.

My site was indexed by msn within two days of submitting it through
http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=SUNO

Cool

Indexing of SEs depends on the load or sites being indexed by SEs everyday....


Google index site in minimum of 3 days...




For faster indexing you post on forum post signatures, directory submissions, linkexchange with related sites (email the owner) and create sitemaps so that SEs easily crawls your site.......

You can create sitemap using this link

'coz SEs love indexing a pages with fresh data or contents...