Hey all, Despite the fact that the topic of getting indexed (fast) has been discussed dozens, if not hundreds, of times, there still seems to be a high demand on those techniques. Based on this, I decided to put together an easy to follow how-to article. Call it the celebration of my 100th post on DP The following steps are exactly what I go through with each and every one of my new websites (I launch 4-5 websites per month). Most of my websites get indexed in less than 24 hours, the latest example being my newest site (launched yesterday) which appeared in Google's index exactly 13 hours after the launch. And yes, the domain was new as well (registered 3 days ago). Oh, and I never invest a single penny in order to get indexed. Resources that you'll need - Some writing skills or a willing partner who possesses those skills - 3-4 hours of spare time On to the Action Step 1 - Produce Initial Content / Launch the Site - 1 - N hours Obviously, your website has to have some content. I usually post at least 5 pages (or articles) before the launch, but less will probably work as well. It's important, however, that your content is well optimized and keyword rich already in the beginning, as it could take you weeks if not months to get your SERPs updated after getting indexed the first time. Step 2 - Sign Up to Google Webmaster Tools - 2 - 10 minutes We can only speculate whether verifying your site at GWMT helps you get indexed faster or not. However, the whole process takes 5 minutes tops and you'll get a ton of valuable information out of this later on so doing this is a very good idea even if it doesn't directly affect the indexing time. Step 3 - Generate an XML Sitemap - 3 - 20 minutes This is a very important step. Make sure that you generate an XML sitemap for each and every new site you build. If you use WP then I suggest you download the XML Sitemap Generator plugin. Not only does it automatically generate your pagemap and update it every time you make changes on your site, it autosubmits it to Google, Bing, Ask and Yahoo making their crawlers visit your site almost instantly after each change. If you decide to go with manual sitemap building then bear in mind that you need to go back to Step 2 and submit your sitemap. Step 4 - Publish a Press Release - 3 - 4 hours This step not only helps you get indexed fast, but also brings you publicity and some valuable backlinks. I personally consider Press Releases one of the most beneficial marketing tools out there. Needless to say, in order for your press release to be successful, it has to be well-written. If you don't have any past experience writing press releases then I strongly suggest you to go through a good bunch of samples and read about it on the Internet. Googling for "press release writing tips" returns you a whole bunch of sites with great content on how to write and optimize your releases. IMPORTANT! Put a lot of effort into producing a TRULY GOOD AND NEWSWORTHY press release. If your PR is poorly written then not only does it not get publicity bust most of the times it doesn't even get approved/published. Once you have your Press Release written and ready to be sent out, it's time to submit it. Nowadays I use mainly paid PR submission services (for better exposure and some good extras such as being able to add more than one link etc.), however, there are many great free submission sites out there. Below is the list of some of the best free PR submission sites I've used in the past for great results: - Newswire Today - THE best free PR submission site if you ask me. They usually approve new PRs within an hour or two and Google News seems to adore them, publishing PRs distributed by them almost instantly. - PRLog.com - Press Releases are published instantly (no manual approval) and Google (talking about organic results here, not Google News) seems to index their PRs very fast and rank them rather high, allowing you to get to the #1 page even before your site itself gets indexed. - 1888PressRelease.com - Getting approved can be rather tough (there are very strict guidelines on PRs and they don't publish in certain categories, such as gambling or adult entertainment), but if you do get approved then you can rest assured that your press release (given that the title is at all attractive) is going to get some public attention. Some other free sites that I've used at one point or another are free-press-release.com, pressbox.co.uk, prurgent.com and pr-inside.com. But whichever sites(s) you choose, it's always important to read their guidelines carefully and follow them to the point. If you don't, you can rest assured that your release either won't get published or will get deleted very soon after getting published. Step 5 - Digg, Stumble and ping all of the below: - 5 - 20 minutes - Your main page - ONE of your other pages/articles (don't digg more than one articles at one - you WILL digg them but you'll do it gradually, digging and pinging one per day) - Your published press release The first two points here should be pretty straightforward. As for digging and pinging your press release, make sure that you pick one that has your active link in it as some sites allow active links within press releases, others don't. In terms of getting indexed, sending Google to a press release that doesn't include your active link is worthless. As you noticed, I'm telling you to only use Digg, Stubleupon and a ping service (I personally use Pingler.com). Some claim that you should use as many social bookmarking sites as possible, but quite frankly I haven't found it very helpful. Sure, you'll get some additional backlinks but comparing it with the time you need to spend to go through 20-some bookmarking sites, it's hardly worth it. I have to say though, that lately I have experimented a little with Onlywire (a $2 per month service that automatically posts your sites to around 20 social bookmarking sites) but I'm yet to draw any direct conclusions whether it helps my sites much or not. Step 6 - Query Your Domain on Whois/Info Sites - 3 to 10 minutes This is a neat trick I've been using for a while and find it VERY helpful. Basically, you visit around 20 URLs similar to http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=yourdomain.com and you're done. The whole thing takes you around 5 minutes but is incredibly beneficial. For the sake of keeping this article clear, I haven't included the list of those sites in the article, but have uploaded them to http://imaxhd.com/whoissites.txt instead. Simply take the list, replace yourdomain.com with your actual domain name and that's it. Step 7 - (Optional, for even better results) - Craigslist Posting - 5 - 20 minutes What I'm telling you to do here is write ANY post on ANY Craigslist category and make sure that it includes an active link to your site. That's it. Craigslist gets crawled a lot and even though all links are nofollow, Google still follows them and indexes the sites it finds. I have to add, though, that your post has to carry at least SOME true value and it's best if it's related to your site. I also advise you to post on less popular categories, such as arts etc., to avoid your post getting flagged and eventually removed. Step 8 - Sit back, relax and DON'T hit the "refresh" button once every 10 minutes - 1 to 24 hours That's it. If you followed those steps, I'm fairly confident that you can go to bed and by the time you wake up in the morning, your site will be indexed. Make sure, though, that you won't start refresing Google every 2 seconds to see if it's already indexed or not. This is completely neutral in terms of getting indexed but very bad for your mental health. What I always tend to do after launching a site is set up as-it-happens Google Alerts (google.com/alerts) with my site's address and the main keywords. This way I get an instant email notification as soon as anything happens on Google regarding my site. By the way - I didn't write this article to promote any of my websites (as a matter of fact I don't have any IM related websites as I think it would be utterly stupid to compete in this high-competition niche ). If you want to say 'thanks' though, then give me some rep (that's the small icon of between the #1 and the warning sign on top of the post ) and then head over to the 3D Videos site in my signature, pop on your 3D glasses (or build them first and then do it) and enjoy some awesome 3D video content (content labeled "Featured" is the best ) All the best, Bryan
Many ways to improve web/blog to indexed by google. And each person have their knowledge and "style". But this is good info...
Correct. Nofollow doesn't mean that Google won't follow (or index) the link. It essentially means that no link juice (pagerank) is passed to the linked sites (and even the truthfulness of this has lately been questioned). You'll find quite a bit of information on this from the forum if you search for 'nofollow/dofollow' or something similar.
Well why didn't you write a "guide" for that? That one would make interesting reading. That's funny, on my PR7 home page i have a nofollow link to the contact page it's been like that 2 years. Google has never hit or indexed my contact page, yet it's all over the home/sub pages every day. Why is that? Could it be that nofollow means.. nofollow?
lightlysalted, many thanks for your feedback! Serpico, that's interesting. I'll surely try those two out and perhaps include them in the rev. 2 of this article Elmo re skinning donkeys, I'm sorry mate, but this is the kind of information I only tend to speak about in other peoples' threads by saying I can do it better than them but without actually revealing how to do it. Elmo re skinning nofollow, I suggest you do some reading regarding this topic, there's really a lot of information available out there. The reason why your contact site didn't get indexed is that nofollow, when used internally, does mean exact that - when used externally it's a whole different story. Radico, go ahead and let us know if it worked
you forgot to mention the most simplest way to get indexed in google really fast, thats to tweet your url on your twitter page, google loves twitter. i have had lots of pages get indexed really fast by tweeting them or setting my blogs to auto update my twitter feed using twitterfeed.com also a good way to get other people to tweet your links is by using www.re-tweet.me
Thanks for this addition, Jac. Quite frankly, during my 4+ years in the Internet industry I've never even opened a Twitter account and I've visited the site 4, 5 times tops But with all the buzz going around this phenomenon, it's in my todo list to check out its capabilities and start strategically using it in my IM efforts.
I just wanted to remention that if any of you put those tactics into use then please let others know in this thread whether they worked for you or not and how long did it take to get your site(s) indexed.
nice article you got here...as for me, every SEO has its own way to get indexed on Google and for me, 13 hours is way too long to get indexed...the fastest i've experienced is less than 30 minutes...