Moron Monday: Getting Your Site Indexed

Posted on December 24th, 2007 in Promotion, Retards, Traffic Generation

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If you haven’t read last week’s Moron Monday about creating your first site, take a sec to do so.  This week Nickycakes will talk about getting Google to index your website, and a little more.

Well, it’s Christmas eve, so this one is going to be a little short, simply because spending time with the family is more important than writing blog posts.

For a new blog, getting indexed by Google is key.  Getting indexed means Google (or whatever search engine) sends a bot to your site to record your info, and adds your site to their index to be listed when people search for stuff.  The visitors to your website from search engines is called Organic Traffic.  The problem with getting a new site indexed is Google has no way of knowing about it, so you need to figure out ways to let them know you have a website that needs indexing.

Here are a few tips to getting your website indexed:

Submit a Sitemap to Google
For a wordpress blog, this is a two-part process.  First, you need to download and install the Google Sitemap Generator for wordpress.  Then you need to head over to Google Webmaster Tools and follow their instructions for verifying your site and submitting your new sitemap.

Submit Your Site to Directories
There are a ton of free web directories online.  You can either pay someone to do this for you, or do it yourself for free.  A google search for “free web directory” should bring up enough results to keep you occupied for a while.  Some retards think it’s cute to charge you to be included in their directory.  With the exception of maybe the yahoo business directory, you probably never want to pay to be included in one of these things.

Submit Your Site to Social Bookmarking Sites
Go to sites like Digg, backflip, and magnolia and submit a story about your site.  This will create links to your site that google can follow to find it.  Do this on a bunch of social bookmarking sites.  You’ll want to have accounts on them for later when you want to generate backlinks (next week’s moron monday).

Put Your Site in Your Sig and Yap on Forums
Blow the dust off that digital point bookmark and go put your website in your sig.  Then proceed to make a few worthless posts in a few popular topics.  This entire process should only take about 10 minutes.

Ping Google Blogsearch
Under Options -> Writing in your wordpress admin console, there should be a box at the bottom called Update Services.   Add http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 to the list so your blog automatically tells google blogsearch there is new content every time you make a post.

This should be enough to get google to start showing your page in the search engine result pages (SERPS) in a day or two.

Next week Cakes will talk about backlinks and getting your site ranked higher in the search engines.