What else could a website want other than to be indexed by Google, right? They do have something like 49% of the search traffic. So, if you want to be found for anything, you need Google to see your site, right?
Well, as of the writing of this post, my site has yet to be indexed by Google. It has only been a month – but I gotta tell you, I am a bit frustrated by it. I have had other sites of mine get indexed within a couple of days! I am not sure why this one has not been indexed, but I have asked around for strategies to get listed by Google. I have done all of them (or at least most of them) – so I figured I would share the ideas with others in hopes that they might get indexed faster than I do.
Add Your Site to Google Webmaster Tools.
This tool gives you information about how Google sees your site. You can submit a site map, see how your robots.txt file is working and determine when Google has added you to their index.
Create A Sitemap.
A sitemap is a great tool to get your site indexed properly. A sitemap tells the search engines where all your pages are and which ones to include in the index. If you are using Wordpress – there is a great plug-in to create an XML sitemap for you. XML Sitemap Generator
Get Links To Your Site
This is the key to getting Google to look at your site! The key is to find sites that will link to your site without a ‘NoFollow’ tag. See, in Wordpress – most comments are NoFollow comments. That ‘NoFollow’ tag tells Google not to follow the link. Search Engine Journal has a great list of Social Bookmarking places that use DoFollow links. Check it out: Social Bookmarking Sites Which Don’t use NoFollow. If you want to get links back to your site and get indexed by Google – add your site to these various Social Bookmarking sites. Make sure that you do not spam the sites though!
Submit Your URL To Google
Add URL To Google – Often, this step is not necessary – as the above links will do it for you. But, hey – if you want to give it a try, go for it!
Create Keyword Targeted Profiles On Google Favorite Sites
OK, many people may hate that I am saying this, but look – if you want to rank, don’t you need to be out to win?!
The basic idea is to create a profile using a keyword you want to rank for – include a good paragraph / sales pitch in your bio and then leave it alone. Google crawls these sites frequently and will include your profile soon!
Well – that should give you a good start to getting listed by Google. Have any other ideas of ways of making this happen quickly? Please share!
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like this post. very timely for me who is trying to build up traffic and readership on my blog. hope to follow these steps.
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