Written on July 12th, 2005 at 11:07 am by Darren Rowse
How to Get Indexed by Google
I’ve had a few readers write to let me know that they’re having trouble getting indexed by Google and asking for advice.
There are a lot of different theories on how to get into Google’s search returns but by far the simplest way to do it that I’ve found is to simply get a link from another site that has already been indexed by Google that Google sends it’s bots to regularly.
Of course you can also submit your site to Google to be ranked or use a search engine submission program to do it – but I find the link option works pretty well in most cases for me. It might take a few days, or even a week or so in some cases, but in most cases it works reasonably quickly.
As bloggers the best way to do this is to write quality content that other bloggers will link to and to interact with other bloggers on their blogs (genuinely) via their comments. This is all it should really take to get indexed by Google. Of course then you have the challenge of getting to the top of the list for the keywords that you’re wanting to target. This is another story and is not quite so simple and some people spend their lives working on this task. Again there are many theories out there.
My advice in climbing the rankings is similar to getting indexed. In order to climb the rankings you again need other sites to link to you. In my mind this is the most important aspect of good SEO (search engine optimization). There are of course other factors, but what it largely comes down to in my experience is inbound links from other sites (relevant, highly ranked ones using the keywords you want to rank for to link to you ideally).
Does anyone else have any other tips for those exploring this? Feel free to add yours below so we can all learn.
103 Responses to “How to Get Indexed by Google” - Add Yours
Allan Burns
July 12th, 2005 4:48 pm
It’s all very well getting indexed by Google, the real challenge is getting a decent position on the keywords you are indexed for.
Ben Helps
July 12th, 2005 4:59 pm
I just tinker with a free Blogger account, and I find that my posts seem to be indexed within a few days.
I’ve had some visitors from some surprising searches. It’s certainly been good practice for optimising a site for SEO.
One thing I realised quickly was the importance of stopping indexing of main pages – google would index it at some snapshot in time, when certain of my posts held prominence.
However by the time someone visited my indexed homepage from a search, it was obvious (from their search terms) that they’d arrived at the homepage looking for an article which had since been archived off the home page.
ryan
July 12th, 2005 5:25 pm
I got my site indexed in a day using Sitemap Generator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/goog-sitemapgen/
Andy
July 12th, 2005 6:59 pm
My personal site is well indexed by Google, and I link to my other blogs from it (not as spam, I think it’s quite legitimate to link from a personal blog to blogs that I write). It’s not necessarily the most targeted traffic as subject matter is often different, but it’s still a link.
Darren also does this, see foot of page.
Tim Flight
July 12th, 2005 9:22 pm
I’ve also been indexed in 24 hours (short article) using Google’s Sitemap feature.
IO ERROR
July 12th, 2005 9:23 pm
There is now a Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress which has helped. Since it hints to Google that the content pages are probably a better bet than the index and archive and category pages, I’ve noticed more searchers reaching the content pages.
Joe
July 12th, 2005 10:39 pm
IF you need more help with Google and other search engines please read my blog http://mr-seo.blogspot.com/ Your blogs are great. I hope to learn from you. thanks so much :)
Joe
July 12th, 2005 10:41 pm
Actually, you will get indexed over time. Plus, any links you have pointing to your site will be held until the next update. Your blog is picked up by other blogs that are in google. Google has already indexed your blog (most likely) so it is a matter of time. You can add tags into your blog that can help.
Joe
Luci
July 13th, 2005 8:15 am
I had no problems getting my site listed by Google, but I’m totally baffled as to why it rates so poorly (compared to my competitors) when on Yahoo & MSN I’m listed [generally] on the first page every time when doing the same general searches. Can anyone tell me why this would be happening ? & what I can do to improve my websites performance with Google ?
Bob Slater
July 13th, 2005 11:58 am
I’ve been indexed by Google for many years now, using the correct robot and revisit meta tags, in any index pages is a good way ensure regular re visits from Google and other search engines.
I never use an html editor mind, just a basic text editor (no spell chheck)
Hope this below helps you get better ranking.
noindex = don’t index this page
index = index this page *
follow = follow the links from this page to get more pages *
nofollow = don’t follow the links from this page
all = index this page and follow the links from it *
none = don’t index this page and don’t follow the links
* = default setting (no need for a tag)
The robots meta tag is used to pass instructions to the robots. Many of them accept the
instructions, particularly those from the major engines and databases. The content is
always one word. The recognised words are:- index, noindex, follow, nofollow, all and none.
Because the spiders will always index and follow by default which is equivalent to the all
content, don’t use this tag for anything but the things that change the default behaviour,
i.e. noindex, nofollow or none. Anything else is a waste of bytes.
Luci
July 13th, 2005 4:12 pm
Thanks Bob, really appreciate the advice :-)
Godhammer
July 13th, 2005 5:15 pm
We tend to leverage existing, older sites we’ve had running and indexed (high PR helps, I think the only place PR seems to do anything these days) and I “focus” their single OBL on the home page and a deeper link for the site I care to see indexed in the next week or so – has worked for years, and as far as I know is perfectly legit in the eyes of the SEs. If i were in a position where I had no such “helpers” I’d consider asking a friend or forum for a boost, somebody is usually nice enough to help give your site an initial boost…?
dzinerbear
July 14th, 2005 1:09 am
Some of your readers may think that they’re having trouble getting indexed when in fact they aren’t. Most of the SEO community pretty much believes and agrees that Google has an aging filter in place. What this filter does is it prevents new sites from joining the larger index for a period of time. SEO’ers feel this time is anywhere from five to nine months. The reason the aging filter exists is that too many spammers were publishing tons of sites with little or no new content in an attempt to take over as many of the top spots as possible. Unfortunately, every one else suffers.
So, while your site is probably indexed fairly quickly, it’ll have to pass through the probationary period before it starts showing up for your targeted keyword phrases. You will probably be able to find your site by Googling your company name, but if you’re looking for “red widgets” it’s unlikely you’ll find your site unless you’ve passed through the aging filter.
daviduk
July 15th, 2005 5:32 am
Thanks dzinerbear that makes a lot of sense but its the first time that I’ve heard of an aging filter. But I have noticed that most of the sites that rank well within the ‘tourist guide’ area are well established sites – some of which haven’t changed in several years – photos from 2002 etc. But if your right waiting up to nine months to get fully indexed is an awfully long time – what does that say about the relevancy of the Google index. We see googlebot on a regular basis but the new pages still don’t appear in the index. We use a ‘unique’ search to test our listings – Smugglers Cove – as there is no such place in the UK – in MSN and Yahoo we come out usually at the top of the page but google can’t even find it? It does make you wonder about relevancy!
Baz L
July 16th, 2005 12:09 am
Does Google hate me? It’s been one month, and google refuses to index me. I’ve been indexed on yahoo and MSN. I have good backlinks for mysite, but yet google refuses to index me. I’m not talking about not showing up in the searchings. I’m talking about site:deletemyspam.com shows up with no results.
Any ideas? I’ve been reading too many articles about people who got indexed in 1 day, 1 week, etc. What’s wrong, don’t they like my site?
Darren Rowse
July 16th, 2005 12:21 am
Baz – you seem to be indexed to me in that your page has a PR of 1 on my toolbar. To get a PR you must be in their system.
Baz L
July 16th, 2005 4:13 am
What site: http://www.deletemyspam.com ???? It shows up as PR 0 to me. And http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-04,GGLD:en&q=site:deletemyspam.com returns no hits.
daviduk
July 17th, 2005 5:48 am
Baz it would seem that you’re probably a victim the aging filter – it does seem to be in place. I’ve checked it out by searching google and there is a great deal written about it! It seems that it may be in place for new sites for six to nine months!! This seems a truely incredible penalty against new sites and one which I am sure will p*** a lot of people off! It seems that their selfish policy is aimed at driving traffic to Adwords at the same time as stopping SEOs from linking new sites to the top of the list. But in business terms a process that takes nine months to complete is a definite turn off and one that could backfire on google. MSN and Yahoo could claim rightly that their search results are more up to date than googles which by there own actions are bound to be six months out of date.
PS I’m not really writing this at 4am!
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July 20th, 2005 7:09 am
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Baz L
July 22nd, 2005 11:52 pm
6 – 9 months??????? You’ve got to be kidding me right? What exactly is google thinking with this? I mean, I guess you get to cut off a lot of spam sites with that technique, but man, come on.
However this still doesn’t make sense, because I’ve personally seen google index “coming soon” sites, which means that all a person would have to do is sit on a domain for 6 months before they lauch the actually site.
Googe really needs to rethink this.
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Marty
August 11th, 2005 4:34 pm
Well, I submitted to Google and the mediabot hits me a couple a times a day, but I still don’t show up anywhere on my main keywords. I’m just impatient I guess.
Capetown
September 15th, 2005 11:24 pm
I thought it might be a spam related problem with WordPress. Would like to get more information about the current status of that. In the meanwhile if anyone wants to read more about Cape Town, check out my blog. Ta.
WILLIAM
April 26th, 2006 9:30 am
Hello everyone
I am the same…I have done articles on debt problems, But dont seem to be indexed, I have tried a few things but it doesnt seem to work…I heard there is a thing called “SANDBOX” is this what they mean by this aging thing…..
S. J.
April 28th, 2006 1:01 am
Hi Darren,
I have a brand new blog. Just started it last weekend. After reading your post about importance of social bookmarking, yesterday I tagged one post at del.icio.us and one at Furl. Oh, and also I claimed it at Technorati.Today I did a search on Google: site:your URL.
It is indexed. It is not showing in SERPs for my keyword – it’s too early, but it is indexed.
NSN Parts
May 10th, 2006 11:49 am
Hey, I just submitted my site to Google and also a sitemap generated from Sitemap Builder NET. hopefully my site will be indexed soon. =)
NSN Parts
May 10th, 2006 11:51 am
Sorry the above link is with an extra “T” lol.
florida rent to own home
May 20th, 2006 3:28 pm
I currently have two homes in palm beach up for sale / rent and I really up the site gets indexed quickly, hopefully with your techniques it will get there.
Promotional Product
June 28th, 2006 6:11 am
Hey, I had a sitemap on Google for all my sites but it seems to be down for awhile now, anyone else have problems with the sitemap?
Ray
October 15th, 2006 12:49 pm
how can i index every page of my site? only my home page is indexed by google, and the rest is not.
BlastUP.com
December 22nd, 2006 9:09 am
myspace scripts and gens peace.
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vijay
April 1st, 2007 2:09 am
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I got indexed for some keywords but want higher ranking..and trying hard for that!
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Nicky
August 26th, 2007 12:35 am
Does submitting the blog to social bookmarking sites help in faster indexing?
Darren Rowse
August 26th, 2007 6:46 am
Nicky – I think that it probably would. I suspect Google is sending their bots to Digg, Delicious etc a lot as it’s updated so frequently. The only downside is that those sites can out rank you for your own content sometimes – digg particularly gets ranked quite highly.
AdJingo
September 12th, 2007 3:45 pm
I’ve always had great success with some of my sites by submitting my blog RSS feed to Technorati, Feedburner and adding it to my.yahoo.com account. Having people link naturally to you is the best bet, stay away from FFA link sites.
Best of luck
John Thomas
October 3rd, 2007 1:24 am
Sometimes its tough getting listed on Google. Even Typepad which has a PR of 8 with Google seems to have a tough time getting indexed with their blogs.
JT
http://doolittles.typepad.com/blog/anonymous-email.html
shane
October 15th, 2007 2:32 am
Seem hard to get index by google……arent linking make site easier for google to index?
Theo
October 24th, 2007 6:38 pm
Getting indexed the first time was easy but I’ve been struggling to get indexed since then – nothing for a month. As a blogger this obviously isn’t ideal! Any tips on this?
Jake Challenor
November 23rd, 2007 11:21 pm
All this info has really helped me! I’ve just launch a blog this week, about Online PR (www.onlinePRblog.com).
Hopefully I’ve done all the right things, and Google isn’t far away! Cheers!!!!!!
Leo
December 2nd, 2007 12:21 am
My post about boxing was indexed by Google in a record time of 20 minutes?! Whoa.. my fastest post ever to be included in SERP! And to think that this blog is just a few days old!
Thira
December 7th, 2007 9:48 pm
How come I have PR and not be indexed in google?
Mister Expired
December 9th, 2007 8:19 pm
Thira is that even possible to have a PR and not be indexed in google? It just doesn’t seem logical to me.
NewSite
December 30th, 2007 9:23 pm
No, that doesn’t make sense. You have to be in the Google index to “earn” pagerank. There’s no other way. It’s Google’s system.
Mr. Cheque
December 31st, 2007 1:48 am
Some of my page are indexed less than 15 minutes. But i think it is right that the question is about pagerank since pinging engines and se’s bots are working so fast now.
Yeahh, pagerank.
Mr. Cheque.
http://cheques-gallery.blogspot.com
Steve
January 18th, 2008 7:06 am
I had to wait over three months to get my PR. That damn sandbox.
Kelly
February 4th, 2008 2:40 am
Admittedly my site is pretty much junk but I do know my personal sites were indexed quickly with Google once I had a sitemap installed.
However my wordpress blog, which is the site I have listed here, has been around longer and still isn’t indexed. It is nice to find that other’s have the same problem.
Fortunately I do this as a hobby and so this indexing matters much less that it would for a business.
No matter how poor the quality of any site it seems to get on google. I have tried about everything, new updated sitemaps and anything I can think of. I guess if and wen google gets around to it they might index my site.
Deed Poll
February 7th, 2008 11:17 pm
Does the filter apply to sites that have changed their domain name using 301 redirects?
We have been using deedpollservice.com for a while but was finding it hard to rank on google.co.uk searches so have now changed our domain name to deed-poll.org.uk. Will our new domain name be subject to the filter even though it was registered around the same time as our old domain name which was doing well in the SERPs?
Michael
February 13th, 2008 10:02 pm
Thank you for youre info, iam trying to get well ranked in google, hope youre tips will help me.
Dr. Sandy at Blogging Guides
March 7th, 2008 4:43 am
There are many ways one can get indexed in google.Two of them has already been discussed here- one is getting linked to another blog and other is by submitting sitemap.There are some more-
1)verify your site/blog in google webmaster tool. I have observed this many times.Once i verify a blog , it get indexed pretty fast. I am not sure about how it works but my guess is-
once you place the verification code and hit ‘verify’ button in webmaster tool,google sends spider or crawler to ensure the verification code (a metatag) exists on your blog/site and in process indexes your website.
2)sign up with google analytics and place the tracking code on your site
Again I am not sure how it works but my obvious guess is similar.Once you place the tracking code google sends spider to crawl your blog to ensure you have placed the code right and in process indexes your blog.
3)sign up with google adsense I have learned this trick from Brad Callen.According to him once you sign up for an adsense account google reviews your site before including it into the program.Brad says ,it is google bot which
reviews a site and not any human reviewer.While reviewing the bot indexes the site.
To ensure faster indexing you shouldn’t rely on a single tips or trick.You should use combination of tricks.Best practice would be to apply them all.
Myron
March 8th, 2008 10:27 am
I too run a site that is indexed very high in Google for several keywords. When I began a new site I included a link from my indexed site to my new site. In a matter of just 48 hours, the Google bot had crawled the new site and indexed it.
mandeepka
March 13th, 2008 5:06 am
ive also been indexed in a day using the xml sitemap generator
james
March 19th, 2008 2:57 am
I’ve tried quite a few of these techniques, but still have many pages in my site indexed that really shouldn’t be relative to their relevance and others with very relevant original content that just isn’t indexed. Bit tricky what’s going on behind the curtain?
http://www.surgical-instrument-pictures.com/salaries.html
Paul
March 19th, 2008 10:39 am
Great information! Thank you for your help. I am trying to index a site now. I know this info will help. I’ll let you know how I do.
guru
March 22nd, 2008 3:09 am
been trying to get good indexes on my individual posts on google and so far haven’t had any luck. my main page is listed but not the individual posts.. I use blogger.. is there a trick? http://www.dellserverguru.com
columbus cake
March 26th, 2008 8:14 pm
I’ve just now tried the digg method…within hours google indexed the page with my link…my site hasn’t showed up in google yet but clearly the link was spidered so I imagine within 24 48 hours I’ll be there!
columbus cake
March 27th, 2008 6:44 am
Ok, it’s been exactly 24 hours now since I have
1 – addurl to google
2 – pinged sitemap to google
3 – posted on digg
4 – started blog on blogger
5 – articles/links on about 15 social bookmarking sites
Results – not doing backflips just yet…for some reason unknown to me, google has indexed one of my pages but…why only the about us page??? That’s seems so very strange. How in the world did google follow the links but skip over all pages including the home page just to index the absolute most meaningless page on the site? Not complaining, one page indexed in 24 hours is certainly better than none! but…I just don’t get how I linked to the home page in every case yet it finds the stupid about us page lol. Hopefully this will change the next 24.
funny guy
April 2nd, 2008 11:44 am
I have a number of my pages indexed in google but I want more of them indexed-Hell! All of them !- . I change things, update things constantly add to the site, and pray. Google still stays stuck on the same number of pages it initially indexed. Sometimes I think the algorithm is a mixture of female and cat dna. Hope no women read that-but you know its true. Its unpredictable and finicky.
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Himalayan Niagra
April 7th, 2008 7:25 pm
Thank you for your tips. My website was not getting indexed for about a week, but I see it indexed now in a day !
Anup Dahiya
April 9th, 2008 1:36 am
I gone through your instructions and hope my site will be indexed early.
Thanks.
Free Classified Ads
April 9th, 2008 2:24 am
Time is something that you have to take into account, it doesnt just happen over night, can take up to a couple of months to start getting a good ranking. A very good read, cheers Darren!
Authentic Paid Surveys
April 26th, 2008 5:47 pm
I followed your tips and got indexed in Google in one day. Thank you very much.
matt
April 28th, 2008 7:39 am
Thanks for the tips, superb.
I also use onlywire
David
May 2nd, 2008 12:05 pm
Good tips. I’ve read many articles saying its about the links. Time will tell.
Travel Agent Business
May 4th, 2008 8:31 am
Yes, inbound links are weighed heavily upon.
CJ Carter
May 14th, 2008 8:48 am
I’ve read everything that has been said on this blog and I tried all the tips. It’s been close to a week and my blog still hasn’t been indexed. Please can anyone help me.
Darren Rowse
May 14th, 2008 9:44 am
CJ Carter – it can definitely take longer than a week for a site to fully be indexed. Keep blogging and you’ll find it’ll happen. The best way to get in is to get a link from other sites – so quality content that another site sees and links to will work best.
PS: you’ll also find that because you have a blogspot blog that you’ll probably get picked up in the next week or so automatically as they are owned and crawled regularly by Google.
Mike
May 15th, 2008 1:41 pm
I put adsense and analytics code on my blog and also submitted a sitemap and I was indexed in about 48 hours.
Although I’m finding that google isn’t indexing all my pages either. In fact, some of the least useful are being indexed. I notice the indexing changing regularly because some pages that were indexed last night arn’t indexed tonight. However, a new page was added. Wierd…
Mike
http://www.bloggermike.net
Rockstar Sid
May 22nd, 2008 8:22 pm
Rightly said,even i wrote a article on this http://blogote.com/2008/the-seo/getting-your-blog-listed-in-google-within-13-min.html
The Four Tier Annihilation Method
June 17th, 2008 6:34 pm
I registered my domain name yesterday, and today it has already been listed in Google.
Here’s what I did:
1- I went to Yahoo answer, and answer some questions with my resource box linking to my newly created site.
2- I established a wordpress.com blog
3- I link to it from my blogspot blogs
4- I have 1 pr4 website with some pages listed in Google, and link from it to the site.
JNic
June 25th, 2008 3:57 pm
Thanks a lot. This is some great information. Ive been working on adding it to my site. Your site is awesome for someone like me who is pretty new to all this stuff.
Jeff
http://www.makethemillion.com
Tamila
July 3rd, 2008 12:12 am
I have submitted my site to google and other directories. I have submitted a sitemap to google and have an HTML sitemap on my site. I am indexed – at 17 pages of my site out of 37 are anyway. My biggest issue is that my “/” page is showing the Domain default placeholder from when you first get hosting. I can not seem to trigger a new Googlebot visit – says last time it visited was May. My cache is the placeholder page and not the real page. Whats weird of course is when you click on the link for the page they say is the default domain page – it goes right to my main home page.
How do I get this fixed? I would like the default page cached correctly at least plus get Googlebot to visit again since I have made alot of updates.
Thanks,
Arc & Co
July 4th, 2008 9:21 am
This is all great, I’m working on a new site that needs to get onto google, it seems to be taking a while. Hopefully it’ll turn around soon…
Roy
August 1st, 2008 8:33 pm
I’ve having visitors in my blog via google search results. Yet, when I applied in one blog affiliate program it says my blog is not indexed by google. And a free PR button said my PR is 0/10.
I’m confused.
Mitchie
September 7th, 2008 6:50 am
I was so surprised. I got indexed by google in less than 4 hours. I just followed the advice I got from a site: 1. submit to social bookmarking sites 2. go to digg, register and post comments with your URL . That’s it. My site got indexed immediately. No kidding. It was unbelievable. You got to try it for yourself.
Ray
September 8th, 2008 2:14 pm
Well first of all lets talk about getting your website indexed in the search engines. For me, it typically takes about a month to get a regular site listed in Google. However, some of my blogs have been indexed within days, especially if your using the Google friendly blog, blogger.com. Start by doing this: Submit your Url FIRST to some free directories, a lot of free directories and even link back to them as you see I have done below. But don’t let yourself submit to like 30 directories and then stop. It is an ongoing thing and you need to keep at it, and if you do not enjoy doing it, it is very easy to lose motivation doing it. Make a goal for yourself, that you will submit your website to at least 200 directories a day. Yes you might be sitting in front of your computer for a while doing the same thing for a couple hours which can be very tedious, but will pay off in the end. Trust me, within a couple weeks to a month, your site will be indexed. I never submit my URL directly to google. I will to Msn, Yahoo, and other search engines but I have found that the best way to get into the Google index is to submit your site to many other sites and eventually it will do it for you. Now, once your indexed, and even before your indexed, you need to start building backlinks. A backlink is basically a link to your site, from someone else’s site. Of course it helps a lot if the sites linking back to yours are relavant to your site. So if you have a website or blog that reviews products like cell phones, contact the other webmasters of like sites and request to do a link exchange. Some webmasters will turn you down for various reasons. I had one guy tell me my page rank wasn’t sufficient enough, which makes sense. In that case, just take the loss, build your page rank and 3 months down the line, request again. Writing articles related to your site and then linking back to your site in the resource box is always a great way to get traffic, better page rank and get noticed. Here is the main key, and I am sure you have heard this before, CONTENT THAT HELPS PEOPLE. If you can provide a block of instruction or information to someone who is looking specifically for that information, then your golden. People might even link back to you just for the simple fact that your content is rich, because hey, one day it might help them. Now, your page rank will update in time, but sometimes it takes a while. One of my sites, after only two months went from Pr N/A to Pr2. If you keep doing these things, keep submitting, go to social website and include yourself in discussions, keep creating great content that helps people then you are on the right track and soon your efforts will start to pay off. I think the biggest thing that you need to have when doing this is patience. It takes a while, its an ongoing battle and it will not happen overnight.
Ridho
September 23rd, 2008 12:31 am
Thanks for your tips, I will try it, And i hope, my blog can get indexed by google in a day.
Nathan
October 6th, 2008 7:48 am
I can usually get indexed pretty quickly with Google, but this time it is taking me longer than normal. My typical strategy is to submit sitemap, install analytics, add to technorati, social bookmark, and add my rss feed to Google Reader.
William
November 1st, 2008 2:39 pm
I’m like most people on here, I don’t find getting indexed the problem, it’s getting a high page ranking that’s frustrating. I use blogger and not sure sometimes if anyone sees my blog but me and some friends. I have tried ezine articles, posting to forums and nothing seems to help. Does anyone know a reliable in-expensive ad service they have used?
ebapela
November 1st, 2008 10:53 pm
William. PR is not really that important. Some SEO specialists say that high PR is important but not the most important thing. I have a PR of 2 and often rank higher than sites with greater PR. The most important aspect is relance.
Mike
November 26th, 2008 5:59 pm
Thanks a lot for the tips. I could get my new site indexed in Google in just one day and it is not yet dropped from the index.
Nischal Shetty
November 30th, 2008 9:36 pm
Getting indexed on google at the start of one’s blogging career is the most important thing to do.
When I started my blog ( iSimplyBlog ) the first thing I did was to submit my blog to google search as well as google blog search.
Now lemme tell all of you, google search bot seems to be smarter than the google blog search one. I mean, even if you do not submit your site on google search, you would find it indexed whithin a few days. However, Google Blog search plays hard to get.
So I recommend submitting your blog to google blog search (I had blogged about it some time back here)
blebon
December 5th, 2008 2:13 am
I have started a physics blog and it hasn’t been indexed yet, not even in the blog search engine! How much time does it take to be indexed on average?
Web Design Manchester
December 17th, 2008 12:58 am
This is some basic and practicle advice on getting sites indexed. This is someting I am asked about continually and I really appreciated this blog entry because my clients are always asking for this type of information. So a very big thank you to all who have submitted.
Dave Free
January 11th, 2009 3:35 pm
I have a free site that has 7 pr6 and 10 pr5s , already posted a link on blogger, verified my link in webmaster, book marked it, and done everything but dance, but i’ll do that to if it will get me indexed. I have to agree with with other sites that google puts you under probation for nine months now. My site is clear proof of that!
Markco
January 13th, 2009 4:05 am
I have been having trouble getting my site:
http://justmytwocopper.blogspot.com/
to show up on prominent google searches. Thanks for the post, I will try some of your suggestions. Basically I’m going to try and cover my pages with the key words I am targetting and see how it goes over the course of two weeks.
John
January 25th, 2009 12:37 pm
yea, getting into google in one day, one week, etc. seems to be a thing of the past. the six-nine month period is retarded if you ask me. why should google be such an exclusive club to get into?
blogngeblog
January 27th, 2009 3:39 pm
I have same experience with yours. My friend’s blog getting indexed by Google easily, and even most of his content get ranked well in First page of google because he always do blogwalking everyday
Leo
February 10th, 2009 1:01 pm
Thanks for these great tips. The one I found to be the most effective in getting my pages indexed has been the use of bookmarking my site. However, I do have one question, should I be bookmarking a site before it actually gets indexed by Google? I ask because the page I want indexed gets found through the bookmarks, but I notice that the page itself is not yet indexed by Google. So I’m wondering if this is actually hurting my site (duplicate content?). Anyone have any insights on this?
nullnill
February 24th, 2009 11:55 pm
I have to disagree with the submit to google part. The best way to get indexed is to have good links comming to you. If you use the google submit you may wait a week or a month, while if you blogroll, get linked to by notorious bloggers, use blog ping, chances are you get indexed in a day or two.
Maine Rafting
March 1st, 2009 10:47 am
It is nice that you would share these tips on getting indexed. I’m going to try it and I hope it does the trick because I can’t seem to get indexed. Thank you for sharing.
weaim2pleez
April 5th, 2009 5:44 pm
Thanks for this nice info. alos believe sitemap is great, my corecommerce store automatically generates google sitemap i can upload, works great.
Salman
April 14th, 2009 10:52 pm
I have new ways of blogging and easiest way to add static pages to blog.
Stephen Stuart Smith
April 17th, 2009 1:47 am
Well, i feel the best way to get indexed is to submit content to social media sites. They do have a lot of traffic coming to them and so does the spider visits them frequently. The chances of a link to your site getting noticed increases which in turn increases the probability of the spider coming to your website and hence getting indexed.
saleel
April 18th, 2009 6:23 pm
Really a good post. Getting indexed in google is not difficult whereas getting a position against a target keyword is so difficult though. Writing a quality content is all we have to do as you said.
Merlin
May 8th, 2009 7:19 pm
I sumbitted my new site yesterday to Google, uploaded a sitemap (created and uploaded a Sitemap using a free download – there are a number of them listed on Google’s Webmaster Tools – although a lot of them didn’t work). I also verified my site on Google’s WebMaster’s Tools.
Today I can see my site listed on Google – although I need to work on getting some links to it to boost the ranking.
Good luck to you all!
Merlin
http://www.watersanitationhygiene.org
Mario Chase
May 11th, 2009 6:22 am
Yeah.. I’m trying to get my cousing site listed. Normally all the sites I create, takes not a lot of time to be indexed, because they are created on Wordpress. Maybe that’s a fast way of doing it.
WillaWonka
May 22nd, 2009 8:37 am
For some reason, the two blogs that I am try to get up, won’t be indexed. Is it because I do not have enough content?
Willa
http://postmimi.blogspot.com/
Abrar
May 28th, 2009 3:28 am
I have created a blog about swine flu but It is not get ranking yet, I have added its url to google, yahoo and msn and also submitted to different free directories. I try to post on my blog almost everyday. Can you tell me when will my blog get rank ?
musicparadox
June 2nd, 2009 12:28 am
before, i have to wait for several months to have my blog indexed by google… i think i have found ways that can really help.. one of my blogs got indexed in just a month.. now it already has a PR2 ranking considering it was fairly new…
http://musicparadox.blogspot.com
hatch
June 5th, 2009 5:34 am
Ive always had great luck getting indexed and high rankings right away. I dont use many inbound links but I do have a set of 3 sites that get me their by placing a link. As well, I enter all info in Google Webmaster, Adsense, Analytics.
My latest experiment for my brothers girlfriend seems to be the toughest yet seeing that it is in a saturated market of Astrology, Psychic, Zodiac Sign mumbo jumbo. Its a site about Capricorns for her and for me its my toughest SEO challenge and I hope to learn from it.
Ive been waiting for 6days and nothing. Than I remembered that I had forgot my 3rd link. So, last night I placed the link and this morning I started looking for tips and ended up here.
Turns out I forgot to check if I was indexed and half way through this post, I checked and BANG. However, Im only indexed for 3 pages that arent the important ones keyword wise. However, I am indexed and the other pages will soon follow.
Again, I have other sites that have had high ranks for a long time and I DONT USE INBOUND LINKS other than the 3 set Ive mentioned.
Whats the 3 set of inbound links I use.
backpage.com (create a free advertisement in your local city)
craigslist (same deal, create a free ad)
yahoo answers (answer a question, post your link. – This was the one I forgot, once I posted the link in yah/answrs – I had 3 pgs indxd the next day – maybe this is the magic answer?)
Im sure that there are many factors involved.
Just think of it like real traffic. How long does it take to drive from point A to point B. Now, add in unpredictable traffic jams and road construction. Also add in having to stop and get gas, maybe some food, stop at a friends etc.
Sometimes you get from A to B quickly, other times it takes way too long.
The people who get indexed in 20minutes are just lucky and were in the path of the bot. Had they put up their site 30 minutes later, they would have had to wait a while cause they would be in the back of the line.
There is no such thing as constantly getting indexed each and every time within 24hours. If there is, please let me know.
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That is not an affiliate link, it is very helpful if you dont know about SEO.
If you have found this post helpful, please help a brotha out by visiting my new Capricorn site and keeping in mind that I do have Adsense and if you just so happened to click on one of the ads “on your own will” to find out more about the Capricorn, it would be nice for me – but only if you want to as I am not asking you to.
hatch
June 5th, 2009 5:45 am
oh, I forgot to mention.
I hear alot about having Tons of pages. Hog Wash I say.
Another of my experiment sites is only 2 pages. A dummy index page and the following page —
http://www.mayo-clinic-egg-grapefruit-diet-plan-information.secretscienceof.ca/mayo_clinic_egg_grapefruit_diet_plan/mayo_clinic_egg_grapefruit_diet_plan_information.html
This was indexed in 2days using my above posts techniques.
As well, I have pretty good rankings for The Grapefruit Diet Plan and other variations in Google.ca and Canada pages I am #1 sometimes.
This makes me think that the importance of having 100’s of inbound links is just a way to waste peoples time so they dont build more sites and saturate the affiliate market. Who knows for sure but I have proven that with only 3 inbound links I can get top rankings. And I havent even fully SEO’d the pages yet.
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