Get your Site Indexed in a day!
10 Steps to get your site indexed by Google in a
day...
1. Create at least 3 to 7 pages of content.
Create a few pages of decent readable, useful content - remember text on images can't be crawled!!
2. Create a template/menu structure
Make sure all the pages link to each other by using a templated menu structure. Ideally the links/href's should be text based and be descriptive, so that they can be easily crawled.
3. Make sure HTML pages are well formed
If you don't own a copy of HTTP Validator, go to www.totalvalidator.comor use the W3C validator - validator.w3.org to ensure your pages are well formed. Search engines will give you a lower ranking or even ignore you if your pages are that badly written and don't include enough information.
4. Create a Sitemap.
Sitemaps have evolved over the years and there are still various forms out there (HTML, RSS and graphical sitemaps). Google and the other major search engines have adopted a common standard though, that will list all pages in your website and help identify the most important pages. You can find out more about the
Sitemap protocol here and/or a free
automated sitemap generator here.
5. Create Google Webmaster tools account and
Submit / Ping Sitemap.
After you have created your sitemap and uploaded it to the root of your website you must submit the sitemap to the various search engines. Google has a cool
Webmaster tools collection which allows you to view extra information that is helpful to all webmasters.
Microsoft's Live search engine's Webmaster tools (http://webmaster.live.com/) is also a helpful SEO tool addition and worth subscribing to. While you are looking at Sitemaps, it might be worth while to create a robots.txt file as well - robots.txt will tell bots/crawlers how they should crawl your sites contents. Google Webmaster Tools include a simple robots.txt file generator.
Search Engine Sitemap Ping / Submit URL's:
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Google:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=[complete sitemap address] e.g.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.httpvalidator.com/sitemap.xml
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Yahoo: http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=[Complete sitemap web address] e.g.
http://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/ping?sitemap=http://www.httpvalidator.com/sitemap.xml
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Ask: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=[your sitemap web address] e.g.
http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.httpvalidator.com/sitemap.xml
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MSN Live: http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=[your sitemap web address] e.g.
http://webmaster.live.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://www.httpvalidator.com/sitemap.xml
Note: Google requires you to submit your sitemap to them first via the Webmaster's tools interface. Only then can you ping them using the above URL. Yahoo and Ask.com allow the ping to act as a submission as well.
5. Link from highly trafficed social
bookmarking sites
These sites are visited regularly by search engine crawlers so if there is a link to your website it will be indexed quite quickly. You'll have to create an account with these sites, to enable you to link to your site. Some of the bookmarking sites that you can use include
Del.icio.us, BlinkList, StumbleUpon.com.
6. Create/comment on a blog.
Write a blog on blogger.com or another blogging provider (there are many different blogging options these days) and start blogging about your area of expertise and how it relates to your website. Feel free to promote your site, as long as it contributes to an open discussion and is not just another fake blog/marketing scheme. The alternative is to mention your website in a comment on a related blog of someone else, but again it has to be as part of a discussion where you make a contribution to that person's blog!
7. Comment on a popular forum/help pages.
Make sure you inlude your website URL as part of your forum profile and comment on a forum that you are part of, or help a newbie out on a subject that you know well, in a related forum or help site.
8. Install and activate Google Analytics
Google analytics is probably one of the best tools for any webmaster.
Sign up for Google Analytics free here. You'll have to add a simple script to all your HTML pages to make sure it gets tracked properly.
9. Run Google Adsense
If you are able to, then run some Google advertsing on your site. Although Adsense and Adwords use seperate crawlers, some people have claimed that sites that serve Adsense ads are indexed more quickly than those sites that don't.
10. Run Google Adwords
Again very similar to point 9, no real proof that advertising your website domain with Google Adwords would really help your site to get indexed quickly, but if you want cover all your bases and get indexed as soon as possible, its worth a try...
If you follow these 10 steps your site should be crawled by Google and other major search engines pretty quickly (more importantly steps 1- 8), obviously I can't guarantee your site being crawled in a day though...but there isn't much more than this that you can do.
HTTP validator will be able to help you optimize your site and makes all of the above a very straight forward - why don't you give it a try?
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