Get your Site Indexed the Short and Simple Way
Written by admin on October 28th, 2009 in SEO, Search Engines.
Everyone’s always talking about getting their website indexed. If your website is indexed on the major search engines, it helps your site have a higher position in the search engine rankings. This article will help you take the right steps to get your website indexed on the big search engines. Books could be written on the subject, but there are a few basic principles to learn.
First, after you have purchased your domain and built your site, you’re ready to begin promoting it and doing what you can to get it indexed on the major engines. You may not be aware of this, but it is very important to properly name your website’s title and make sure the heading of your page is defined within alt tags.
Installing Google Analytics will do several things. For one, it will help you keep an eye on your site and for another it will let Google know there’s a new site out there and at least someone is interested in its success. Once you do these things, you’re ready to move on.
Make sure that you have a sitemap of your website or your blog. That allows search engines to crawl your website and index the pages. You can wait until search engines find your sitemap, or you can give them a push by submitting your sitemap to rev up the process.
There’s not any cut and dried way of knowing if this speeds up the process of having search engines index your site, but it’s one of those steps that definitely doesn’t hurt.
You should promote your website by writing one or more articles on it. Write a simple article about your website and what it offers, and then submit it to several article directories. This helps you build some of those valuable back links that increase your site’s search engine ranking.
When you make comments in forums, if it is in keeping with the forum’s rules, make sure your signature links to your website. Ask or read the FAQs first to make sure this is OK.
Don’t just set your site up with Google Analytics and forget about it. Use Google Analytics to keep tabs on it. It will take time to get indexed, but if you continue to add new content and monitor your analytics, you can learn what works and what doesn’t.
If you follow these steps, you’ll get your site indexed as quickly as possible, which will drive more visitors to your website.