Start Blogging - Get Your Site/Blog Indexed ASAP
Jan 2008 | Category: Make Money Blogging
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taken from WebProNews.com by Michael Jensen
Most SEO’s will advise you to buy an existing site/domain (lots of age benefit), but there are times when you need to start from scratch with a fresh domain.
It can sometimes take a couple of weeks to get a new domain indexed by Google (even longer to start ranking!). In order to speed up the process of getting your site indexed quickly, even in 24 hours, follow the steps outlined below:
1) Create 5 pages of content
Skip the “under construction” page and write several pages of real content, at least a few paragraphs.
2) Create Internal Links to your Pages
Put the content in a template with a menu structure to make this step easier. You can find free templates at oswd.org and other places, at least to get started. Link to the content through the menu, and if you have a major landing page, link to it from the content of a page or two.
3) Tag on Social Bookmarking Sites
After just a few minutes to create an account with these sites you can submit a link to your site. This gives you an instant way for Google and other search engines to find your site because these social bookmarking sites get visited by the search engine bots (like the Googlebot) quite regularly. A few bookmarking sites to recommend: Del.icio.us, BlinkList, StumbleUpon.com, and Furl. Make sure you tag them with common words, like those you find on their tag clouds (BlinkList has a good one, just scroll down on the page to see it).
4) Comment on popular and recent blogs (with your link)
Find 5 blogs that are fairly popular, relevant to your site, and have a recent blog post (last day or two). Read the post and add a comment that contributes to the discussion, including a link to your site in the URL field.
5) Create, Submit, and Ping your XML Sitemap
You can create a free XML sitemap here then upload the file to your site (just save it as sitemap.xml). Then ping Google with your sitemap by typing in the following URL in your browser, replacing the domain name with your own:
http://google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http://www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml
Next, create an account with Google Webmaster Central, add your site, and submit your XML sitemap.
6) Install Google Analytics
Add Google Analytics (free) to your site. Don’t forget to verify your site with them to get the data collection started.
7) Run some Google Ads
Create an account with Google Adwords and start running some ads, even if its just for the domain name, company name, or some long tail keywords. Google has to go to your site because of their quality score, which includes “your landing page quality”. Just spend a couple of bucks and it can help jumpstart the indexing.
With these steps, you should see your site indexed fairly quickly. I can’t guarantee the 24 hours, but it is possible. At the very least it will speed up the indexing significantly (from weeks to days). Look for the “googlebot” to visit in your site analytics. Then look for your site to show up with Google by doing a search with the site: operator (for example, site:sphinn.com). Enjoy!
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from my own point of view, you don’t really have to do no.7, since I don’t think it will have much effect. Especially if you’re on low budget, you can skip no.7 and you’re more encouraged to do the other six.
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Dude, thanks for the link. Its super.But I am stuck on step6.
I cannot add Tracking Code to my site. Help me with this. please. I do not know how to proceed with this. I have a blog named: http://itjobhunt.blogspot.com/ and I have taken this blog from blogger.com so I am not sure who is the web admin.
Google analytics says: Tracking not installed.
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Hi, Ahmer..
You can follow these steps. I hope you don’t find my explanations confusing, since my blogger account displays the menus in a language other than English.
1. Analytics provides you with a code block to add to your site’s pages.
2. Highlight the code block and then copy it.
3. Once you’ve done it then login to your blog at http://www.blogger.com/ to administer.
4. Click on the Template tab (the third tab from the left), and then the third tab from the left again (something says “Edit HTML” or similar). Just scroll to the bottom.
5. Look for the end of the template for “< /body>”
(Google Analytics Code Block is going to go here)
< /body>
< /html>
7. Then click Save Changes.
8. Back to your Google Analytics account and click “Verify” or “Check” on the “Status” column. It should be valid.
I found this info here. Since I’m not familiar with blogger. But I implemented those steps and they work!
How’s yours?