Since pinging services like ping-o-matic are intended for blogs and websites I was wondering how to get Google to index my social profile URLs. The reason why this is important is that many of my profiles spreadout over the net have dofollow backlinks to my site and obviously I want them to be counted. Some of these profiles get picked up by google pretty quickly but some are so "hidden" inside a website that google doesn't index them. (I checked by doing site searches --> site: profile-URL) So how to notify google? In another thread somebody mentioned social bookmarking but obviously, digg, reddit and the like are for submitting articles, news stories and so on, not for publishing profile URLs. It's very likely to get reported for shameless self-promotion (=spam) and you may end up shooting yourself in the foot. We're talking lots of profiles here as this is my main way of generating backlinks. Jumptags seemed like a good option as you can publish your own bookmarks there, even bookmark collections, but unfortunately I just found out that it's nofollow. Does anyone know of a bookmark publishing site that is dofollow? I'd welcome alternative ideas too. Thanks!
Collect all your profile-links and make a list of 'em at a blog. Ping that blog post and just make that blog post get indexed by Google. That way, all the links inside the blog post gets indexed.
Just keep making comments or post on the site where your profile is listed, if the site your profile is on is crawled often then it shouldn't take that long to get your profile indexed. However, some sites have put nofollow on the profile links so this may not work that good. Although I must say that if this is your link tactic I'm not sure it is going to help that much.
I don't have an answer. I did try this but it did not work: I set up a free subdomain blog and posted my profile links. Google indexed it after a couple of days, but then a couple of days later it got de-indexed. On the next try, I'm going to try adding some content first and then bury the links a few pages back.
I thought of that but problem is that I only have two blogs and both are interlinked. If I set up a new blog somewhere just to list these profile URLs I'm sure that blog account will get canceled sooner or later. The profile URLs need to be linked in a solid, lasting way. Well, I have engaged on some of the sites but somehow the profile URLs have not been picked up by google (again, via site: search). As a matter of fact, some sites don't even have a way of engaging or when making comments the username is disabled as a link or something to that effect. What do you mean? If the pages are high PR and allow dofollow links on profiles, especially with anchor text, it helps a LOT. Trust me. Point in case, thanks frenzee. How am I going to insert 300+ profiles in a sensible blog post, or a few posts for that matter? LOL. Anyway, thanks for all the replies, I really appreciate it. After extensive research I think I found a good list today - it shows pleny of social bookmarking sites and most importantly, if they are do- or nofollow. Check it out: Social Bookmarking List I've picked out folkd out of this list as it seems similar to jumptags, though they don't offer the collection feature (yet you can submit as many bookmarks/links as you like). I just submitted a few of my profile URLs there plus some useful sites. Let's hope for the best!
This might be a kind of a stupid question, but are you sure all of these profiles are publicly viewable? If they are not, they are not getting indexed. And small correction: I seriously doubt profile pages are assigned pagerank. And what I seriously doubt even more is whether pagerank should be referred to as a criterion of helpfulness.
place links to your profile. but not at once but in one post link to facebook, in other to digg and so on
ARGH, I was suspecting this. Because one day later, even though my folkd profile page is indexed in google, my profile URLs which I link on there are not indexed. Even one day later....I'm now using spurl. I'm pretty sure the links on there are not php redirects? Yes, but like I have said not all of these sites contain/offer engagements like that or its not tied to profile links. Yes they are viewable and crawlable. Most urls are set up like this: xxx.communitysite.com/users/user422 or xxx.communitysite.com/profile/username. It does. It's not the profiles themselves with the pagerank but the main domain of the site that has the pagerank. And that rubs off to their inner, deep pages like profile URLs (the juice kinda gets passed on). Trust me, I've been doing this strategy for a couple of months now and my pages have been moving up in google pretty fast due to that. The only issue seems to be getting all profile URLs indexed.
Also another couple of observations: 1. Pinging profiles pages (ping-o-matic, pingoat, ping.in, etc.) don't really work. Google is just not interested in responding to pings unless it's a blog or forum of some kind. I don't really understand the logic involved. (i.e. it's over my head ;-) 2. Certain sites block Google and/or other SEs from crawling the profile pages using robots.txt. E.g., take a look at: http://aftered.tv/robots.txt It seems they don't want to waste bandwidth, or maybe some other reason, but I think it's pretty guaranteed that profile pages on that site will never get crawled or indexed. And of course, it they really want to be sneaky, it's easily possible for the webmaster to do some funky .htaccess URL rewrite or redirect (based on either the requester's IP or the crawler's ID) which would make your profile page seem perfectly fine when you load it from a browser, but when Google requests it, it either comes up as a 404 or it gets something completely different, and in those cases you'll never be able to tell that there is such a redirect or rewrite rule behind the scenes. Again sorry for not being helpful. I'm working on a variation of the technique described earlier. Hopefully if that works, I'll share the details here.
Is Jumptags no-follow? Oh this is quite so strange to me..I am not aware with that. Ive been using it for bookmarking my sites... Oh that is so surprising.
I was suspecting that some robots.txts do that. However, with a few particular sites I was testing I did find plenty of profile URLs indexed in google, but mine wasn't among it. So the only other explanation I have is that maybe google doesn't like some of my profiles and refuses to index them (or maybe quickly de-indexes them?). Why that would be is beyond me seeing that plenty of my profile URLs are online. I also found out that some sites use alternative URLs for profiles that then get indexed in google opposed to the profile URLs I had saved. So a better search for index checking is not the "site:" parameter but a "xzy.site.com + profile name" command. Well, a whole day has passed now since I submitted a few profile URLs to spurl but they're not showing up in google yet. Clearly, google shouldn't take longer than a day to index a social bookmarking site? Argh, patience is a virtue, huh... @seminar: What is "a reson of beat"? From what I know, if you put a link on a no-follow site google will neither crawl nor count it.
Google will follow links and would index the contents it finds after doing so. Sometimes the location of the links too could play effective roles like the at the headers or the footers.
So how come that on some sites my profile links don't get picked up by google? I've checked through a lot of them and links to my profile URL were clearly established there (due to a comment or a member list), sometimes months back. Other profile URLs from these sites are indexed in google so I'm totally perplexed still. Any progress yet, Frenzee?
If the profile url is in sitemap than it should get indexed fast. Other way is to build quality backlinks to profile page which will get your profile pages indexed.