Blog Tipz

Plenty of people will tell you that you have to be an SEO expert in order to get your site indexed by Google, or any search engine quickly. Although there are hundreds of various search engines, Google has more than seventy percent market share, and traffic among the other search engines is much less. Therefore, getting your site indexed within a few days is preferable, especially if you plan on launching your blog with great content.

The search bot used by Google, appropriately named Googlebot, indexes content throughout the web, and when indexed, your site and any internal pages will appear when someone searches for terms that are on your site. Without first being discovered by search engines, your site will be difficult for others to find.

Some would recommend submitting your site on Google’s Submit Page, although this might actually hurt if you have posted content on your site that might not appear appropriate in the eyes of Google. Naturally, the best way to get your site indexed is by having others discover it first. However, this doesn’t always happen.

A few of the best ways to get indexed by Google quickly include:

1. Add new content to your site, i.e. a blog

By adding a blog to your site, Google will automatically be abel to determine that your site is active and isn’t a “rejected” site. Any keywords that you include will also be recognized by Google, and this is one of the main reasons that people create blogs today rather than adding and removing content from a “stationary” page.

2. Be sure to have a great web host

While I don’t personally believe this to be as important as some say, the server that your site is hosted on could hurt how your site is indexed. For example, if your site is constantly down or your particular server has been blacklisted, you might have a difficult time getting your site indexed. If this is the case, be patient and contact Google if there may be any issues or problems.

3. Take advantage of external blogs

Even though you may be starting your first blog, it might be a good idea to actually start with one blog before the other. Even though you don’t have to truly develop one of them, place a link back to the site that you really want to develop after Google has picked it up. This is a method that helps the search engine bot find your page in the “web.”

Additionally, you could go to other bloggers and request that they link back to your site, although this is often difficult, as much emphasis has been drawn away from blogrolls and has been placed on individual content.

4. Submit or create a sitemap

Creating a sitemap, even for a relatively new site, can be a great way to get indexed quickly. In this, you tell the search engines what you want indexed and when. Combined with a robots.txt file, you can help restrict content and folders, as well as help improve SEO, relative to a non-action approach.

5. Share the site’s URL with others

Your first step in making your site discoverable is letting others know about it. Start early and share word about the site. With some unique visitors to your site, they may link back to it, even through Twitter, and this helps improve the chances that you see your site in Google within twenty-four hours.

Conclusion

Even though you may see your site discovered and indexed by Google within twenty-four hours, this doesn’t mean that you will be ranking well. Initially, you won’t have many keywords that results can be ranked against. However, Google has been recently placing more emphasis on “new” content, so this may help you when you are posting about terms that are mentioned often. With every new article, it is one more reference being placed on Google back to your site.