Nearly all webmasters know getting indexed in Google is a number one priority when launching a web-site, but some people find the process extremely difficult, even tricky. Most will agree the best type of traffic is search engine traffic. The people using Google and other search engines depend on relevant results to find the information they need - this is the type of traffic almost all webmasters want. Close to 70% of all Nullamatix.com's traffic comes from Google, and looking at the search terms provided, the visitors are finding the information they want, which means Google is doing their job effectively. So here's what I normally do to have a site indexed in 48 hours or less.
1. Establish A Few Backlinks
This is relatively easy. Once your site is up and in production mode, submit the main page to social networking sites like Digg, delicious, sphinn, and any other social link sharing sites you may participate in. If you're a member of a discussion forum or forums, add your site's link to your signature. This is a great idea because your link is placed on every page you've ever posted to on that forum. If you have an established and indexed site in Google already, just link to your new site from the established site. Backlinks (without the link tag rel="nofollow") will present the new site to Google's indexing bot - this is what you're after. This lets Google know the site exists, and unless there's a link to the new site on an already indexed site, Google's bot has no way of knowing the new site exists.
2. Sign Up For Google Webmaster Tools
Once signed up, login and add a site to your dashboard. Verify ownership by adding the special meta tag or creating a file with the filename they provide. Now that you've let Google know you own that site, head over to XML-Sitemaps.com and follow their instructions. Upload the uncompressed sitemap.xml file to your site's root directory, for example: http://www.your-domain.com/sitemap.xml. Back to the webmaster tools dashboard, under sitemaps, click add to add a sitemap for your recently verified site. Sit back and let Google examine your sitemap. Check back 15-30 minutes later to make sure there weren't any errors. Providing a sitemap further lets Google know your site exists, and which pages are important.
3. Continue Establishing Backlinks
A great way to build backlinks are site directories. There are hundreds of thousands of free directories available. Here's what I was able to locate with a simple Google search.
Mr. Seo's list of Free Directories Directory Total's List of Free Directories 1,650 + Free Directories
Continuous, slow development of backlinks is vital to a sites success. Once you're indexed, adding backlinks will ensure your sites survival and increase traffic. Submit new stories to Digg, add them to your delicious bookmarks, even stumble your pages. The process is tedious, but until authority is established and people start naturally linking to your site, keep building backlinks - they can't hurt your site.
So that's it. Sit back and wait. Hopefully Google's bot will visit your site via the Digg submission, or a forum signature, and start grabbing the site's content. If your server logs show the bot as a visitor, and the bot likes what was on the site, congratulations, you're golden. Any tips or suggestions of your own? Have a question or comment? Share down below!
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