This is a guest-post from AdesBlog.com. Follow Ades on twitter @ades.
We all know that content is king and that if you keep blogging… if you keep doing what you love… the traffic and the money will follow suit. While that’s partially true, there is also things that you can do to:
- Index your newly launched blog fast by major Search Engines Having a consistent keyword-username on all major Social Sites will help get your blog indexed faster, and at a later stage it will also help build a “brand” for your blog.So, get account on major Social Sites for your newly launched blog, namely: Twitter, Facebook (create a page for your blog), Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious etc. By the way, it’s a good pratice to create a separate Social Sites account for each of your projects. This way you can stay focused and post messages that are related to your project. In the long run, this will help build a community that are like-minded around your project.Note from Darren: it’s worth nothing that many social media sites (like Twitter) use no follow tags on links which means the links don’t really help with SEO. Having said this – it’s still worth getting pages for your keywords/brand as these pages can rank in and of themselves in Google and can help you to have control over numerous search results for the same keyword.
5. Misc Sites
Squidoo is a community website that allows people to create pages (called “lenses”) on various topics. Creating a topic that is related to your blog and then including your feed in that page would help your blog get indexed by Search Engines. Squidoo used to have a really good ranking in Google results, but not so much today. But it’s still ranks well and it shouldn’t be neglected.
ChangeDetection is a website that monitors sites for changes. When you monitor a particular site using ChangeDetection, it will ask you whether you want the notices to be public or private. If you say public, it will be published in their news section. For example; AdesBlog.com got an update today, type of update: text additions etc. This of course will get picked up by Search Engines and Search Engines in return will index your blog.
Technorati is a search engine for searching blogs. According to Wikipedia, as of June 2008, Technorati was indexing 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. It’s a dying breed, but not just dead yet. You have to definitely register for an account and get your blog listed on Technorati.
That’s it. Once you are done with creating accounts and submitting your newly launched blog in the above mentioned sites, you should see your blog in Google’s Search Results within 24 hours. Most of the time it will appear within the next few hours only.
Lastly, getting indexed is one thing but sustaining that traffic is another. And this is where the Content is King phrase should truly be emphasized. Because, without a good and valuable content, all your effort will be just wasted.
I hope you have found this post useful.
Abdylas Tynyshov (Ades) is a full-time blogger based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He blogs at http://www.adesblog.com and is the creator of a great freeware color picker tool. You can follow him on twitter at @ades.
Well there are other ways to index your blog and website.
Pingler is one of them, and is a very good way to inform other search engines that you have a new blog post or even a new blog.
wow! that’s great post! but i do all of this befor and now my page rank is ONE!
what else should I do ?
Interesting links. I didn’t know that there are so many sites to estimate the worth of your site. Bookmarked this post.
Isn’t it possible to just go on http://www.google.com/addurl/ and simply your blog there and see it up on google in 24 hours or so?
Great list, this will be perfect for my endeavours, thanks!
Wow, some really great tips here!
The only one that I really knew about was the one about social sites. I started using them about 45 days ago and I nearly doubled my traffic with it! (And it keeps growing)
It’s a great way to build up back links and get indexed.
And it’s a lot of fun!
I thought the “how much is my site worth” tips was cool. Because it’s super easy!
Great post, thanks a lot!
Great tips there! Getting listed in Google could sometimes take more than a week! I didn’t know that it could get indexed so fast!
I also didn’t know that MyBlogLog helps to get your blog indexed. LOL.
I’ve something to add too.
I’ve also came across a recent post (How to Make Your Blog Searchable in Google & Yahoo) on my friends blog, Simon Blog.
On his post, he tells that you should add your site to Google Webmaster Central and Yahoo Site Explorer and they will have you indexed pretty fast!
This is great stuff. I didn’t know about a few of these services and I’ll immediately check them out, and get listed. Thanks!!!
These are excellent tips!
In my experience, that is, this is what works for me: Posting daily content over a period of at least several months, on a WordPress blog, with a sitemap plugin, and no other promotion, will get your posts indexed in as little as 4 hours.
That’s a data point.
While a few of the indexing tools you mentioned are known to me, I am not familiar with many of them so this is a useful post to consider when trying to promote a blog or individual blog posts.
If Mybloglog has good SE ranking like you wrote here, that is nice but the site does not always list all my current posts, which gives me the impression that Mybloglog is not updated as efficiently as it can be. It’s late listing my recent posts and this has been going on for a while. Blogcatalog has this problem every now and then as well but seems to be quicker on updates.
I’ve done a few of these steps, like registering with blogcatalog. It does help the search engines find you more quickly.
Again, another great article for blogging newbies like myself. In the quest be narrow or shorten the learning curve with my blog, I find myself reading lots, and lots, and lots of articles. Sometimes, I feel as though I might be getting overwhelmed with the content as some of what I read is not easily digestible. This is definitely not the case with posts on this site. Wow… I must definitely will be back to read many more posts.
Very valuable and practical tips! Thanks for the great list of Site Valuation & Stats Sites.
Darren – Can your blog please keep all references to other sites up to date and accurate.
Those comments about Squidoo are TWO YEARS OLD!
Just in case anybody’s wondering whether Squidoo is doing OK in the Google index, Quantcast currently indicates that traffic is still growing and the site ranks at 157 in Google.
I don’t think that’s a ranking enjoyed by some of the other sites mentioned.
Granted it may have been a valid comment in 2007 but it’s no longer true so far as I am aware. Adult sites are banned from using Squidoo.
While commenting on someone else’s blog isn’t always god for SEo purposes, it is very good at getting your name and blog URL known and noticed by real people who live in the ‘real’ world (some of us do, any way!). the SEO might not be affected, but getting people to click through is, for some, more important .. these are the people who read!!
Thanks for continued great blogging.
David.
Thanks again Darren, for great advice and sharing your space with knowledgeable guests.
Well I just checked my blogs worth and it’s a start
It’s great to see my work paying off
I’m not in the big leagues yet but it’s a start
Thanks as always for a great post
Most of the posts like this hardly makes sense, but this one is really worth bookmarking
really helpful, thank you! now I’m registering our blog everywhere like a mad man!
I think you could include also aboutus.com, don’t know how it ranks in Google but it is also very useful,
Good job A! This was informative and I particularly enjoyed the section on blog communities. I will be adding my blog to some those in the coming week.
Cheers!
Wow, awesome post. I already had a few of those done but you just gave me so many more options. I’ll be working on this all day. Thanks!
I only had a couple of the steps completed. I went and registered on some the site valuations and site stats. I just went and opened up a new Twitter account that was relevant to my Website. Thanks Darren, I have learned a lot from you in such a short period of time.
This is great advice, and I know what I’ll be spending time on this week!
Thanks for beginning and ending with the “content is king” reminder. All of the other work is fine, but I’m glad we keep remembering that when all that traffic comes, we’d better have something worthwhile to say.
Hi guys, thanks for all your comments. I am glad that you have found the post useful.
There are many ways to get listed on Google or if you keep blogging you will still get listed eventually. But the purpose of the post was – How to get listed within 24 hours after you launch your blog. And from my experience the above methods are the best way to achieve this.
Please send your comments in, I am sure there are many other ways and tactics to get listed by Google fast.
Meaningless post, sorry. Getting indexed? And? It means nothing if you don’t rank, and many of the tips here will be worthless when it comes to that.
This is a great list. We all want to get noticed as soon as possible it’s true. I had not know about some of the misc items.
As well – something I am discovering… if you want to get noticed by google. Google Reader is a very valuable tool.
Cheers~
Getting indexed fast has very little effect on it’s own, so of course it’s nice to see your blog and posts there quickly, so you can keep pushing. The key to getting indexed fast is setting up the blog the right way, putting the initial pages up and not blast all content out immediately.
It’s actually quite easy and doesn’t require so many things as covered here (although those help, as like said, getting indexed is not the only thing): Set your blog up with good SEO settings, add a good ping list, set the blog feed at feedburner (activate PingShot), have a XML sitemap and add that sitemap to Google Webmaster tools (+ verify your site there as well while at it). Do this and bookmark your first post at Digg/Delicious and you’re set. It takes 2-6 hours to get blog indexed this way.
As an additional step (not so much for indexing, but because it’ll help in the long run), adding your blog to directories like Ades suggested and registering the domain for max length (e.g. 3 years), help too.
I have tested this many times and it works, in case you’re interested in the topic as much as I am, I have written a 11 step guide about this in my blog, which covers not only getting indexed but getting a good start for your blog in general: http://zemalf.com/blogging/blogging-tips/how-to-get-indexed-by-google/
Wonderful advice for a newbie like me!
I will am going to tweak this advice to help with my new forum/blog!
Fantastic, just logged three sites through mybloglog and am getting visitors from them already.
Hope google picks up these sites too.
love this post. so many new ideas for how to spread the word about my blog. i love resource dense posts.
Whoa, octofinder already has had one of my posts on the frontpage.
Also, if you link back to octofinder on the individual post pages they take the nofollow off of your links =)
Great Post and finds!
Well, I try to avoid reading this kind of posts.. But your post is so informative and worthy that I can’t ignore.
Thanks for the nice post :)
Any suggestions about Yahoo and Bing as I have noticed that they are not indexing my site as much as Google is doing?
I know there are many of them,but those you gave are the most reliable and can really help your site get indexed by google
This has been very useful–thanks.
Great post. It shows a great understanding of the search engines and this will help many to get their blogs indexed quicker by all major search engines, not just Google.
Some solid advice here for not only getting indexed quicker with Google but also for building traffic to your blog.
Wesley Craig Green
The Geek Entrepreneur
Great tips and tricks! I was familiar with everything except the links under, “2. Site Valuation & Stats Sites” I have never heard of those. I am off to check them out now.
Wow. These are way too hard.
Install Google Desktop and/or the Google Toolbar. Browse around your site. Done.
Google desktop keeps an eye on where you go and indexes the sites that you visit. Whenever I am working on any of my sites and forums there are always two IPs. My local one and one from Google. It hits every page I hit in my browser.
I don’t have any connections to Seth Godin other than being a fan of his presentations, blog, and books. But the Squidoo mention (and accompanying link) is way outdated. Squidoo ranks just fine now. Pull up some PR on any “lens” or even the homepage and you will see that’s not really true anymore.
Spot on with the rest of the article. Good stuff!
Don Makoviney
Man I scanned the comments to see if anyone had already mentioned what I wrote in my previous comment. I guess I missed Katherine’s. My bad.
Carry on :-)
Don Makoviney
Nice post and thanks for revealing these useful resources. For all you newbies out there, you can also create one article and submit it to various directories that have a high PR. This will help your ranking on google. And it can get you some traffic aswell
Regards,
Johnny
Katherine and Don Mak… that particular link about Squidoo was given precisely for the reason to point out the event in the past (2007) about Squidoo being given less importance in Google results. Perhaps linking the words “not so much today” to the old link may have caused the confusion. I hope it’s clear now.
Nevertheless, sorry for the confusion and thanks for your feedbacks!
Great post! Lots of super helpful information here. Thanks!!
how about the ping services?
i think those are also important :-)
Oh wow, I have never thought of this, I can’t believe you could do that. Usually, it will take me a few days to index my new blogs. I think that is good enough, there is no need to get your blog indexed by Google in just 24 hours.
But in another way, I think this so cool, many people really want to do this. I think that if your pages could also get indexed so fast, that would be great!
You made my day, Thanks for the cool tips and links even though I know some of them already but the new once are very useful. I really appreciate.
Good list, a few new resources to check out (the feed aggregators).
I agree with Antti Kokkonen’s comment above – by creating an xml sitemap, submitting it to and verifying your site with Google webmaster tools, you can get all kids of cool stats about if/when and how many pages Google has indexed from your site.
There are lots of free sites that will create an xml sitemap for you, xml-sitemaps.com for example.
Great tips. I’ve done these many times and seen Google index the site fairly quickly.
Just saw your blog’s net worth. Holy Shit! Are you married? :)
Great tips – I’ve instituted several on your list. Thanks!