6 Great Ways to Get Indexed By Google

First, for those of you who do not understand the value of getting indexed but Google let me explain it for you.  In case you haven’t noticed Google is where everybody goes to search for stuff. Although the other search engines may bring traffic to your site, if you can please Google they will send you a lot more traffic. This is simply because they have a controlling market share in search hours performed each day (24/7). In the UK Google had a 90% controlling market share.

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Around the world, controlling market shares will vary but you can be sure every country will show Google as the dominant player (does not apply to countries that deny Google search access to their population).  The message here is if your business is not in Google’s index you will never be found by people searching Google for your product or service.

Prepare your Site for Indexing

You’ve heard the expression before “first impressions matter”? In the machine world it’s no different than people. For example, Google has a quality scoring system they use that ranks web pages for quality. The search engine giant does not disclose exactly what they look for to determine quality score but I will share with you a few common techniques that are considered good practices.

Four Steps to Friendly Search Engine Indexing

  1. Insure good page structure. Good use of heading tags, anchor text, interlinking, boldface, paragraph text.
  2. Handcrafting meta-tags. Includes keywords, description And page title
  3. Check for broken links. Use automated software to crawl through your web site to look for broken links.
  4. Alt tags and broken images. Make sure alternative tags have been applied to all images and image source paths are all functioning clearly.

When you have published your website for the first time how the does Google know?  The Google Bot takes its sweet time finding your website unless you have a few links pointing to your site from authority web sites.  There are also a few other tips I can offer that accelerate the process of getting your pages to show up in Google. Right now we’ll cover the easy stuff.

Steps To Faster Indexing In Search Engines

  1. Create a XML. site map of your entire web site
  2. Publish quality content that is uniquely written
  3. Clean code that loads quickly with good navigation
  4. Acquire links naturally from well respected sites
  5. Create no follow rules were you do not want Google to see
  6. Submit website to Google for inclusion

As I suggested there are other ways to accelerate the rate in which Google indexes a web site. For now, the six steps above should get you indexed quickly. Getting your site indexed by any search engine is the first step to a good natural ranking.

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