How Search Engines Crawl And Index My Site ?

[leegold1]

Hi,

 

I have a website on Tommy, the address has the form thiswebsite.heliohost.org. So I have not bought my own domain name but just using heliohost's "feature" to get my URL...would it be called a sub-domain name? My user name is just prefixed onto heliohost.org.

 

Given this, should my site be appearing in Google? Or does Google "want" my own domain name? Will search engines "spider"/crawl and index my site as it is?

 

I eventually will get my own domain name but wouldn't be a good thing to have some degree of search engine presence?

 

Thanks.

[Krydos]

Unless some site that google already crawls links to your site google will never find it's way to your domain on its own. You can submit your site using https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home You can submit your sitemap, and even see search analytics for what terms people search for that lead them to your site.