Is There A Secret To Getting Indexed in Google?
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Natural traffic is one of the sought after forms of traffic in internet marketing. It costs time and effort to get listed, but once you’re listed in a good position you no longer have to pay for that traffic. The goal is to be on the front page listed in one of the top three spots, or the first one, depending on how people click the listings to find out what they want.
There’s many articles, ebooks, and probably even seminars devoted to getting your site(s) indexed faster and faster. I suppose this will be another one of those articles, but with how Google seems to change it’s mind every day on what it indexes, all were surely relevant at some point in time.
Beginning marketers sometimes watch and wait as long as two weeks, or longer, for their sites to get indexed. These marketers may benefit most from this article while those who get their site indexed in a few days to 24 hours or less may not learn anything.
Since we’re looking at Google we’ve got to look at what their search engine spiders think is important and relevant. This means using Google’s own systems, mainly PageRank (PR). High PR pages that link back you are the biggest step to making this happen. We need these links to be one-way as well, since Google weighs more for a site linked one direction than one with a reciprocal link.
Does it matter what kind of high PR pages link back to you?
In my experience no, but I’m sure someone will chime in with a comment of how that’s wrong. The pages don’t seem to matter because the search engine spiders visit these high PR pages many times a day to index new material. When the bot sees your site linked on one of these pages it believes your site is important and relevant on the page it found it on, so goes one layer deeper(your link) and indexes it.
So where do you get these high PR links?
In the age of Web 2.0 they’re everywhere. There’s particular power in social bookmarking websites. They always seem to have a high PR (PR4 or PR5, sometimes higher) and by simply bookmarking your site on many of them you’ll give your site many quality and high PR backlinks. StumbleUpon seems to be most powerful of these sites, and anyone who has used the service before knows there are very few bad pages in their bookmarks.
Another route is Social News sites. These are sites like Digg, Netscape, and Newsvine. You can also get the bots to come with Pinging servies. Ping-o-matic and Pingoat are popular pingers.
A final note is that the bots seem to like unique content more than recycled content. It’s simple enough to test once you get the hang of getting indexed. The theory of duplicate content seems to have some weight in my experience with indexing, but the backlinks seem to work the same way to the bots on unique or recycled content.
The only secret here is to use any and all means available to you to get your site indexed in Google.
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