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Do not underestimate the importance of getting your site indexed when you are designing your own website.

For people who are looking to planning their own website, we tend to be business owners or those dabbling in internet marketing.

The most important thing to do with a new website is get it indexed quickly by search engines, and one valuable tool to do this is to use a sitemap.

Here are some simple steps I’ve learned to do this:

1) Go to http://whois.sc and type in your URL: e.g. designmyownwebsite.net. Once you get a search result, click on the “About Us: Wiki article on designmyownwebsite.net“. This will create a page on a high page-ranked website.

2) Create a sitemap.xml page. If you are using WordPress, use the Google XML Sitemap (it will do this automatically!). If you have a regular website, check out http://sitemaps.org. Once you have your sitemap (typically http://designmyownwebsite.net/sitemap.xml) ping it at http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

3) Submit your RSS feed to Pingoat.com and Pingomatic.com . If you are using WordPress, it will probably be here: http://designmyownwebsite.com/feed/rss2. For a regular site, create one at http://html2rss.com

4) Submit an article in your site or a page in your site (not just the root site) to social bookmarking sites Digg.com and Stumbleupon.com.

That should get you going!

Good luck!
WebDesignerScotty