Getting a new site indexed by Google Quickly
Posted by admin on June, 3rd 2010
When you have created a new website and uploaded the files it doesn’t instantly appear in Google’s search results how-ever you try and search for it.
Google may have not noticed the new website or more likely they have “sandboxed” it which is where they put it within a holding area and wait to release it into the SERPs. A website can be left in the sandbox by upto 6 weeks in our experience unless you do a little specific SEO work to speed up the process.
Don’t bother adding your website to Google, Yahoo and Bing using the “suggest a site” or “add url” feature, it’ll still take many weeks to actually appear in the results! What you need to do is promote your website and announce to the world about what your website’s all about.
Backlinks are the key to getting your site quickly indexed by Google
If you have an old website or old blog then add links to your new domain on EVERY page, get any friend’s websites to mention your new site in a short announcement or even try creating an online press release or article which has a link pointing to your website. You’ll notice that the site will get indexed within 3-4 days by gaining backlinks this way, if you create backlinks on an authority site with high Page Rank then the fastest we’ve seen is a new site indexed with 3 hours!
Top Tip: Instead of linking to your homepage, link to the XML sitemap of your site. Your XML sitemap should contain a list of all the webpages on your site and all the search engines use them to find deep linked pages; if you point them right at it then ALL the pages of your website will be quickly queued for indexing instead of just the homepage.
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