What's the best way to get indexed by google? Turn and a site map or get crawled naturally. What are your thoughts?
If you have patience then do a good link building and google's bot will eventually find you! However, I did a manual submit and a sitemap which got me indexed with google. But make sure, you have all your pages optimized (at least without open tags and broken links). This would get you going without problem.
you need at least one link Google can follow, therefore it´s easy if you already have some sites, new additions are indexed quickly. It´s good to place the adsense on your site as well, as google´s mediabot also contributes to the index.
Sitemap helps!! But acc to me, the best way to get indexed is to get maximum ammount of Incoming links. Link exchange could be the cheapest answer you are looking for.
1. If you have a bunch of sites already, then update them to point links to your new page. 2. Post a link in your blog (you do have one don't you?) 3. Stick your link in your signature. or put the link in the post. 4. Use blogger, and blog some real content about your site. 5. Create a googlepages page, then link to your site. 6. Put any form of adsense on the site. Use discreet ones (like adsense for downloadable firefox or something in text format) if you intend to submit your site to directories. 7. Submit your site to directories. Do it slowly, like 30 or 40. Don't submit to 400 all in one day.
Quantity is not bad either. I suppose that with growing high PR link buying possibilities (you can buy couple of quality links), quantity again gets more important (it´s harder to buy lots of links). From my point of view it´s more natural to get lots of low/middle quality links than to buy handful of top links. Also if you fail to agree on continous co-operation with those PR7+ sites and you loose one of them, it dramatically changes your results. I suggest to follow the hilltop but not to forget the middle class quantity.