Getting your new site indexed is the first step in the ranking process. One of the things you should make sure to do is create a sitemap and submit it to Google through “Webmaster Tools”. Google will send it’s spider to crawl your site and index it, or add it to the search database. Nothing happens with ranking until you are indexed.
Here’s a slick little trick that is the fastest way to get your site indexed. (By the way, that screen-shot shows my sites at positions #1, #2, #3, and #4 on a search term returning 22 million pages!) You can check to see if your site is indexed using the ’site:’ command:
site:www.yoursite.com
Once you are indexed, you will see your site returned. As you go forward, you will also see what other pages Google has indexed for that site.
Even if you do nothing, Google will eventually find your site and index it - providing you don’t have a “no-index” metatag on your homepage - however submitting your sitemap will hasten the process. Even still, it can take days or weeks to get indexed.
There are many tactics to get indexed faster. Putting a link on a high-PR site works. If you don’t have access to a site you can put a link on, a common tactic is to use Craigslist. Specifically, posting something on any of the ‘major’ Craigslist portals - the ones with their own city listing on the Craigslist homepage - will generally get you indexed within a couple of days.
Here’s a neat trick that can get you indexed the SAME DAY - sometimes even in MINUTES! It requires having an Adsense account (which you can open for free, and doesn’t require doing anything more with Adsense):
Simply put a couple of different Adsense blocks on your home page. Initially, Google will fill those with their default placeholder ads of which there are about a dozen - Google ads and PSA’s (Public Service Announcements).
Now refresh your page, over and over.
Google will look to put contextual ads into your Adsense blocks - that’s how they make money - and see that it can’t because you aren’t in the database. Bingo! You go to the “head of the line” for priority indexing.
Keep refreshing your page until you see contextual ads showing up in your Adsense blocks - content ads that someone is paying for. As soon as you see these, you have been indexed!
Seeing a result via “site:” may still take a little bit, but as soon as you see those ‘real’ ads showing, you’ve accomplished your objective. You can now remove the Adsense blocks if you choose.
I’ve had success by reloading the site appx. 50 times.
19 responses so far ↓
1 John T. // Sep 25, 2007 at 10:57 am
That is very slick - I’ve never heard anything other than that you always need to wait for days or weeks to get indexed…I’ll try that with my next new “creation”!
John
P.S. - I found your blog through Blog Rush, which I just added to mine too.
2 Michael // Sep 25, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Thanks John,
We’ve actually been able to get the AdSense contextual ads to come up almost instantly lately.
Keep in mind there will still be some lag time for the indexing to enter the main datacenter databases, but it’s still the fastest way by far!
3 Internet Lady // Sep 25, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Hi… thanks for the very useful info. Just want to know if you’d like to link exchange…
4 Michael // Sep 25, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Thanks for the kind words!
BTW, you now have a link on our blog - see the ‘Do Follow” post under “Recommended Tools”!
5 Vijay Teach Me $$ // Sep 26, 2007 at 6:24 am
Dude this is so great….. information is power I have used all the methods you have mentioned but without realizing the really outcome.
Thanks
Vijay
6 Frank // Sep 26, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Melanie,
I’ve always submitted a sitemap to Google and been indexed in a few days. Within a few more, I’ve been indexed by Yahoo and MSN without doing anything else….maybe I was lucky, or maybe that’s the way it work.
I know there are other search engines out there, but do you submit your sites to them, or do you just focus on Google, and maybe Yahoo and MSN?
And, this is probably naive… is this all there is to “submitting sites to the search engines?”
Thanks,
Frank
7 Melanie // Sep 26, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Hi Frank,
As for submitting your sitemap and getting indexed by Google in a few days, that’s pretty good. Generally it takes from a few days to a couple of weeks.
Both Yahoo and MSN have “submit URL” or “suggest URL” functions, however the general concensus among the SEO set is that this actually lengthens the process (the theory being that you are put in a queue, where you might be indexed quicker ‘naturally’).
And yes, that’s all there is to submitting to search engines. These days, all of the search engines will find you within a few weeks even if you do nothing, however “time is money” as they say, especially if you’re doing this ‘for the money’!
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9 Frank // Sep 27, 2007 at 8:13 am
Thanks for that response, Melanie. Do you submit to SEs other than the big three?
Frank
10 Melanie // Sep 27, 2007 at 11:29 am
Hi Frank,
No, I’m really only concerned with the “Big 3″. Google itself accounts for 45%-70% depending on what you’re doing, and between Google, Yahoo, and MSN, I’m covering close to 95% of everything I’m interested in. I can’t justify spending time or resources chasing another 1%-3%.
11 Alap Patel // Oct 1, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Does the Google Adsense Idea work with Yaho0, ( me using Yahoo Publisher of course ).
Just wondering
12 Melanie // Oct 1, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Hi Alap,
No, this is a Google method. However, if you’re indexed by Google, it probably won’t be too long before Yahoo indexes you.
You can also use Yahoo’s “suggest a URL” at the bottom of their search pages.
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14 Planet Lowyat // Feb 14, 2008 at 7:51 pm
No wonder! Googleeeee adsense….
15 FuBOX // Feb 20, 2008 at 6:00 am
Thanks for the nice tip, I tried it and amazingly my new blog got indexed in less than 30 minutes. I’m truly amazed with this awesome trick.
Thanks again.
16 caniseethemenu // Apr 26, 2008 at 12:22 am
i’ll have to try this trick
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18 chris // Jun 6, 2008 at 11:56 am
this is all really
helpfull, i’m right at the start, just built my first freewebs site and want it out there but the whole thing is a minefield of info and a sharp learning curve, does anyone know will my site get indexed while pages are htm not html?
19 Girls Battery Powered Cars // Nov 12, 2008 at 2:47 am
Great tip. I don’t think submissions even work anymore. Now all you got to do is beat thousands to millions of competitors to the first page. Now that is the real battle!
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