The first method is to submit your web site via Google's free submit your site form. Just submit your home page and Google's crawler, Googlebot, will crawl the rest.

However, Google do not add all submitted URLs to their index, and there is no guarantee as to when, or if, your site will be indexed.

The second method is to get a site that Google already crawls to link to your site. So when Google recrawls the web site, it will find the link to your site and crawl and index it as well.

This is Google's preferred method of finding sites to index.

To get another site to link to yours, simply look for a site that links to your competitors and ask them to link to yours. You may have to offer a link back to their site in exchange.

The third method is to submit your web site to the Yahoo! Directory and/or Open Directory Project index, which is owned by Netscape.

Google has agreements with Yahoo! and Netscape to include the sites indexed in their directories in the Google index. So submit your site to either, or both (recommended), of these directories.

Google ranks a web page using an algorithm based on the relevancy of key words in the site title and body text, as well as the number of high ranking web sites that link to it.

Google has a toolbar that is free to download, which integrates into your web browser. The toolbar lists each web site's ranking from 1 to 10. It also shows you which pages are linking back to it and has a Google search box for searching the web. You can download the toolbar here.

http://toolbar.google.com/

Before you give your web site to Google, you need to find some popular key terms that people would search for when they are looking for your web pages.

You can find popular key terms using the Overture search term suggestion tool. It tells you how many people search for a particular word each month and lists all the popular key terms relating to that word.

The key words you choose can not be highly popular on Google. You can tell if your key terms are popular by searching the web using the Google toolbar. Check to see how many exact matches are in the search result's titles and what the Google traffic rank of the top 5 web sites is. The top web sites should not have a rank of more than 5 or you will not be able to compete with them.

When you have some key terms that get searched for at least 1000 times a month on Overture, but do not have high competition on Google, choose the best three and use them in your site's title and at least a couple of times some where near the top of your main webpage text.

Google results are also shown on Yahoo.com, who also rank sites based on the key words in your web site address. So, if you haven't registered your domain name yet, use one that has some good keywords.

When you have your web page uploaded to your web server and your domain name is pointing to it, you need to swap links with other high ranking web sites so that Google will give a good rank to your site.

Look for sites with a high Google traffic rank that have a reciprocal links page and ask the web master if they will exchange links with you.

When you have your key word optimized web site and at least 20 high ranking sites linking to you, Google will find your site on all of the other high ranking sites and list your web site. You can give your site directly to Google at this page. It is also a good idea to give all the pages linking to yours so your site is listed quicker.

It may take 1 - 3 months for your site to be ranked by Google. When your site is ranked it will appear near the top of the search results page when people search for the key terms you chose for your site's title.

You can make as many small web sites as you wish using this technique. The more pages you have with good key words and high ranking links, the more highly targeted free traffic you will get to your web site.