Getting a new site indexed in Google quickly - March 29th, 2008
Search engine optimisation professionals understand that new sites often take time to get crawled and indexed by Google. There are however some SEO methods you can use to help speed up the indexing process.
The best method is to buy an existing domain that already has some internet presence. As the domain already has some history the search engines will already regularly crawl and index the site. Getting an existing domain however can be expensive and difficult. Thankfully there are other SEO methods you can utilize to get your site indexed quicker, these include:
- Content - Ensure your website contains several pages of content. Don't have a site that simply says "under construction" on the home page, create an index page of good content
- Social Bookmarking - Sign up to an account with popular social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon and Digg, submit some pages from your site and tag them in relevant categories. Google regularly crawls social bookmarking sites, and may well follow the links to your site
- RSS Feed - Create an RSS Feed for your site, and ping the feed out to different RSS feed aggregators. Most Blog platforms will do this automatically for you. These feeds will contain links to your site that search engines may follow
- XML Sitemap - Create an XML sitemap for your site, dynamically if possible and submit the sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools. After the sitemap has been submitted Google will know about all the pages in your site
- Add some Google Ads - Create an account with Google Adwords and run some ads. It does not need to be expensive, use long tail keywords to make the budget last longer. Google will follow the ads and go to your site to determine a quality score for your landing page.
Although these tips do not guarantee your site will be indexed within a day. They may speed up the indexing process, so that it only takes a couple of days.
Paul
SEO Programmer
