Getting Your Site Indexed Quickly in Google & Other Search Engines

 

This has been one of the real headaches for many web masters and web site owners – hot to get their tens, or hundreds or thousands of web pages indexed quickly.

 

This section of Billion Dollar Questions provides inputs and web resources that answers this question.

     

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Getting Your Site Indexed in Google - Part II - Written by Jinger Jarrett, May 2006 - Getting your site listed in Google is easier than ever now, since Google offers sitemaps. By using a sitemap, you can make it very easy to get all of your pages indexed by Google. This can help you raise your rankings in Google as well as help searchers find you - says this Blog Critics blog article

 

Secret to Getting Indexed by Google - a link from a site already indexed by Google can get your Web site indexed much faster than a submission alone, says this Hypergurl article

 

Getting Indexed By Google – It Needn’t Be Hell With A Good IBL - by Matt Jackson @ Self SEO - the quickest and potentially easiest way is using the method that Google prefer – an inbound link from a Google indexed page, says Matt in this blog article

 

Getting Your Site Indexed Before You Launch - by Adam McFarland - I've noticed that most SEO articles focus on what to do after you launch your site. What tends to be neglected is the advantage that you can gain by getting your site indexed before you launch. With a little planning and a few hours of work it's easy to be indexed by Google, Yahoo, and MSN before your site goes live - says Adam in this article

 

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Optimising Picture Galleries for Google – from JALbum Forums

 

Google’s Trustiness will Determine Indexing - You can tell how well Google trusts the content of your web site by how deep Google will spider and index your web site, says this article, and provides some useful tips to increase your site’s trustiness in the eyes of Google – from SEO Advice

 

Sometimes Google indexing problems can be the result of little more than Robots.txt file errors. This is a text file which sits in the root directory of your web server informing search engine robots what they can and can't index. A Robots.txt error can sometimes prevent Googlebot (Google's search spider) from crawling your website. For help with creating or formatting a Robots.txt file click here for help from KSL Consulting, UK web page.

 

Some useful suggestions from here for the fastest way to get indexed on Google – Webmaster World (One interesting idea put forth, not sure if it is true: The fastest way to get listed on google is by putting Adsense on those pages you want crawled, and refreshing that page in your browser (once is enough) )

 

Here’s another suggestion: “Post a entry about your site in your blog and ping some xml-rpc services like weblogs or pingomatic will get your site indexed quickly. Send press release to prweb and other pr sites is also helpful.”

 

Do Google Sitemaps help? – Yes & No, seems to be the idea. As one professional puts it, “Sitemaps are…are only a growth-helper, not the "seed" for the index. Sitemaps for new sites don't work without at least one link as a seed. As soon as a site is indexed on Google, other factors come into play. And: once the site is listed, Sitemaps do seem to make a big impact regarding getting all the URLs listed and getting new URLs listed faster…”