How to Get Google to Index your Site

by Mark Hall

Important point: Resubmission would not help you speed up your listing if the site is already listed by Google. When you search ‘Google submit’ you can find the page where sites are submitted. Expectedly, their page would be right on top of the list but there are other means also by which you can make them select your site and that also in a quicker way.

A novel way to get Google to notice your site is via links from sites which are heavily crawled. Using online directories and there are plenty of them could of course be the best and the most effective way. Google has the habit of scrutinizing top level directories regularly and when any site has links from these the site also gets noticed quicker.

The choice is between free and paid subscription directories and you have to pick your choice depending on the money available. Any business directory which operates with the same kind of interest area as your business is the best bet since Google pays a lot of importance to similarity before indexing your site. The area of operation between your site and the business directory ought to be common.

The most proven way to get good Google ranks is to enlist in DMOZ, which people also call an Open Directory. This is not the way in which you can accelerate the speed which Google takes to notice you. DMOZ would take their time, weeks or months before you get listed. This is due to the fact that every submitted site is overseen by a category editor with personal supervision, and you never know how far you are in the queue. One critical advice, is before submitting your site to DMOZ, remember to go by their guidelines strictly and comply with every instruction provided.

You could also submit articles to the relevant sites and get indexed by Google. Mostly all important and successful article sites would allow the author to add a small resource box called ‘About the Author’ or ‘Author Resource’. It is here that you add the critical link to your site.

If the articles are good, then your articles could also be chosen by other sites for inclusion and this is another advantage of writing articles. [s19 This is done when they carry your author resource box also as this is your key to a free link to your site. That is another opportunity to get noticed by Google and if your articles are in line with your line of business, you would get increased amount of site traffic.

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