Submitting Your Site Into The Google Search Engine
Having your site or blog into the Google search engine and having your home page as well as all of your sectional pages and individual post pages is one of the best things you can do to gaining more traffic to your site. Google tells users that their spiders called googlebots automatically will find your site in due time. There is a way to get your site indexed a little quicker. But before you go jumping off the deep end and blast off your URL to Google, it might be a good idea to check and see if your site is ready to be listed in Google first.
Is Your Site Ready For Google?
Before submitting your site into Google, they actually recommend that you do a little homework and preparation first. You want to make sure that your site is good enough for inclusion into their database. You don’t want google to think that your site is second class and not worthy of providing useful information to people who use Google Search.
Before submitting your site into Google you should actually go out and contact the owners of other sites that are relevant to your own and ask them to add a link from their site to yours. This link creates a direct connection between the two sites. When Googlebots visit a site that has your link on it, the robot will then also connect to your site using the link provided. This is defined as a ‘Backlink‘ and the more backlinks you have pointing back to your site the better. So before submitting your site into Google, you should tell everyone you know about your site and ask the people who have similar sites to add your link to their sites.
Make sure all of your own pages are linked together. Every page that you create should have a link back to your home page. Every page should some how be accessible and able to be found through your home page.
Your content should be creative, entertaining, informative, useful and or unique. Do not copy and paste content found on other pages. Google isn’t stupid and they aren’t the leading search engine for no reason. Their technology is very superior. Also common sense should tell you that Google can easily detect if you copy and paste content found on other sites for the simple fact that Googlebots have already indexed the pages you are copying from. In order to have a great placement in Google, you have to write your own content. Moreover, your content has to be useful to others and be deemed worthy on being included in their index.
Submitting Your Site Into Google:
When you feel that your site is ready, you should submit your site to Google. Here are some additional articles that I found to be very useful. The last reference directs you to the page where you can submit your site into Google:
- Google Webmaster Guidelines
- Google Webmaster Tools
- How Do I Add My Site To Google?
- Submit Your Site To Google
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Date/Time: 6-11-2007 02:30:41 Comment #2963
well, you got a point. however, i don’t like your new design… putting the sidebar at the right.
Date/Time: 6-11-2007 02:59:09 Comment #2964
Thanks for the comment on the post.
now with the site design, I am not sure… but did you mean “left” ?
Date/Time: 6-11-2007 08:10:51 Comment #2972
First- I am actually liking the sidebar on the left, just feels more comfortable and easier to view. Don’t ask why, I have no clue. Great article! I love those google articles, try reading at least one every time I visit. Another useful place is the google forums. Now, how would you recommend finding those other sites that we’d run to to ask for a back link? REALLY popular ones, (probably not) or just the semi-popular ones that would love to help a fellow blogger out?
Date/Time: 6-11-2007 18:33:24 Comment #2986
Hi HM3,
One of the best methods is ‘link baiting’ (it sounds evil, but really it isn’t). If done right that can really get you some good IBLs also from the really popular ones.
Another thing: it’s best to get links within your niche. That reinforces your position within that niche. When set, you can fan out from there.
Date/Time: 6-14-2007 12:28:25 Comment #3026
Great advise Joost,
I found an article titled, Link Baiting Effective Link Building that may help more. However, I also want to stress caution and provide this article titled, Link schemes, direct from Google Webmasters Help Central. Not saying this this is a link scheme, but just reminding folks that Google want people to write creative and unique content designed for people and not search engines. Link baiting has nothing to do with trying to write content for the purpose of getting hit up in the SERPs, but it is an objective strategy towards increasing backlinks which does increase Google PageRank. So, just a pulse check, and its a good read as well.
Thanks again for the comment. Check out both articles I provided for great assistance.
Date/Time: 6-11-2007 11:47:37 Comment #2976
Homemom3, this one is simple… and you will just love it!
You can easily find other sites to do link exchanges with by searching the blogrolls of the sites that are relevant to your own. From there again, see who is on their list. These are people who are open minded to doing link exchanges… otherwise, their name wouldn’t be on the list.
So, an example of how to get started would be to search my links page to see if you find anyone on there that has a site relevant to yours, from there… drop the author an email and ask them if they would be interested in a link exchange.
Date/Time: 6-11-2007 18:12:44 Comment #2984
Homemum, the left side is easier to read because it is more natural - it is the way we scan things. Garry posted about it a few days ago. The article quoted is here - Apex
cheers,
- GoldCoaster
Date/Time: 6-14-2007 12:19:18 Comment #3025
Hey GoldCoaster,
Thanks for covering this for me.
Yes indeed. That article was great. It’s pretty fluid how people read from left to right and to me it makes more sense to have the nav bar and section on the left. Of course you guys are my readers and if you all don’t like, I kept a copy of my code and can quickly put it back on the right.
Date/Time: 6-12-2007 06:42:31 Comment #2997
Thank you GoldCoaster- also thanks for the tip at my site. My hand is a bit better today, not as ugly as it was yesterday thank goodness…oh and I took off the wrap. As for the pic, not sure what is going on there can’t figure it out.
Garry- Thanks for the tip, will be headed to your links page in a minute.
Joost- Thanks for commenting, yes I have heard it being “The evil” thing but I can see why it would help.
Date/Time: 6-14-2007 12:15:47 Comment #3022
Hey, what happened to your hand. Did you get hurt?
Date/Time: 6-15-2007 06:56:01 Comment #3054
hehe, yep I ..(I’m laughing as I type this) I was a total blonde and grabbed a hold of my burner on my stove top while it was on and for some reason wouldn’t let go. Thankfully it went down…(Goldy I can feel my fingertips now) I do have a few ugly burn marks from it and looks like I’ll be branded an “F” for life in the palm below my pinky finger. Remember, my last name begins with that so it’s kind of funny. (gotta look at the funny stuff right?) At first the entire hand looks like I had a target on it but not anymore.
Date/Time: 6-15-2007 13:53:26 Comment #3077
Ouch…. That’s got to hurt. Did you take any pics?
Date/Time: 6-12-2007 09:28:06 Comment #2998
Never, never, never submit your site directly to Google for indexing! The quick and easy way is to post comments on blogs like this one. Add your url. This method will get you indexed by all of the spiders in less than a week in most cases. The Google submit can take 8 to 12 weeks. To insure a quick indexing, post many comments over a period of days. Also, blogs are a great way to gain Page Rank quickly. No Follow aside, many blogs do follow and as little as 100 blog back links can get you a PR in very little time at all.
Date/Time: 6-13-2007 07:44:44 Comment #3015
Thanks Nashville, lots of great info.
Date/Time: 6-14-2007 12:16:55 Comment #3023
Hey Nashville,
Thanks for adding to this. Very helpful. I do support everything you are saying. Is there any use to actually submitting your site now a days? I always do it in addition to spreading quite a few links around combined.
Date/Time: 6-15-2007 03:39:18 Comment #3049
Nashville is dead on with his comment. Never never submit to Google, it’s actually counter productive and delays the inclusion process. In the article where you said to ask for some links - that would take care of getting into the Google index much more quickly than submitting.
There are also a lot of SEO people that believe that submitting can hurt rankings during the first few months. They believe that Google deems sites to be more reliable if they are found through the natural linking structure of the web.
Date/Time: 6-13-2007 03:19:32 Comment #3008
Good advice for beginners Garry. Thanks a lot.
Date/Time: 6-14-2007 12:17:23 Comment #3024
You are very welcome!
I am glad you found this helpful.
Date/Time: 6-14-2007 20:41:30 Comment #3040
Hey Garry
Submitting your site with the engines will get you indexed. Posting your web address on blog posts or as a sig in many forums will work faster.
There is a paranoid belief by many SEO’s that submitting a site through any engines submission forms is a quick way to identify your site as new and possibly draw attention to it. As in, here I am Google, put me in the sandbox! It’s probably true
but you can’t hide from being new. I just know that the above method works best and quickest. Unless you want to take an extra 8 to 10 weeks to be listed.
Actually, I have several sites not in Google now. I should use both methods and see which is actually faster. Although, I already know.
Date/Time: 6-14-2007 22:21:19 Comment #3041
Gary,
I still need some help with google page rank. I have well over a 100 backlinks, people are constantly finding my site through Google, yet when I check my PR, future or current I get a 0. Any ideas?
Date/Time: 6-14-2007 22:42:15 Comment #3042
Goldy give it time. PageRank can take time. First off, you do not have over 100 backlinks. You have a total of 3.
It will soon because I have landed all my traffic by social networking. I did this first before even bothering with Google. Naturally, as the months have gone by, the site gets indexed. But I wasn’t concerned with that. My first concern was social networking. Finding people that have sites that interested me and visa versa. From there I built a massive blog link exchange, from there I have readers coming in daily… etc. Now I am ready! Now, my site is ready for Google. Last week I released a new version of the site. I have the code written and arms open and I am accepting Google into very limited sections of the site. Each section is unique. Each post is unique. But everything ties into each other and everything I write about has extreme relevance to my target words.
Recruit your readers and sell yourself and your site. People need a reason why to visit your site. Secondly, when they do visit your site, they need a reason to come back.
Good luck man, and you might find my archives to be very helpful. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
You can check your backlinks . I am sure that many sites are linking to you and your are commenting on many different blogs. It takes time for these effects to register in Google. Also, commenting is useless for increasing unless the blog you are commenting on removes the rel=nofollow tag like I have done. When you comment here on my site, eventually each post you comment on will count as a backlink once Google recognizes it.
Have patients and just have fun! And to put my cards on the table… my site doesn’t do well in Google yet either!
What I would focus on right now, Goldy… is social networking. If you can’t get your traffic via the search engines, then go out in the blogosphere and get it yourself.
It doesn’t really matter if you have 10 hits per day or 10,000. If you can’t retain regular readers, what difference does it make if you are in Google or not?
If you have a 100% success rate at converting visitors into regular readers and only get 10 visits per day… by the end of the year based off that, your site is going to be busy! It doesn’t take much to get the ball rolling. And my site proves that. Never depend on any one thing to get you to where you need to be. If you want something… and you want it bad enough, then you will get it. But first you have to develop stages and steps to achieve it.
Date/Time: 6-14-2007 22:51:49 Comment #3043
Thanks Gary. I agree… not really concerned with PR except for validation. Technorati has me at 114 authority, that is where I came up with the link number. I have developed a core group of readers. Frankly it would be great if I could figure out how to get you there more.
By the way, I want to buy an airplane. Do you have a blog you could refer me to?
Date/Time: 6-14-2007 23:18:04 Comment #3044
LOL! yes, Indeed I do, and in due time I will have a blog for every airplane every made!
In the mean time you will have to check out Internet Aircraft Sales and find one that interests you within the category listing. Are you seriously looking for an airplane? I hear you can get great deals on used Cessna 210 Aircraft. Of course if you want to go nuts you can pick up a great deal on a used Boeing Jet for Sale.
Date/Time: 6-14-2007 23:54:11 Comment #3046
I have flown in a private plane twice and god help me if I ever have th money I will certainly buy time in one. It is the most amazing way to fly.
Date/Time: 6-15-2007 06:59:02 Comment #3055
hehe, that was too funny Goldy. Oh I love those jets, lots of fun. I think I would’ve enjoyed my trip more if it were under better circumstances. I hate those big ones though, scare the daylights out of me. I managed to delay a flight before.
Date/Time: 6-15-2007 13:55:06 Comment #3078
I want to hear more about why you delayed the flight! Did you freak out and everyone had to hold you down and buckle you in and give you that “special pill” that will make you feel better?
Date/Time: 6-15-2007 03:52:19 Comment #3050
talking about the follow/no-follow, do you know if the free wordpress.com does the follow rule - I would hope that the small number of people commenting get a little link back goodie.
I have started to say ‘thanks (blog name link) for commenting’ on the bottom of posts, so hopefully that helps others out. Goldy, post a comment with me and you will get at least one link in benefit - hope it helps.
- GoldCoaster
Date/Time: 6-15-2007 14:01:36 Comment #3080
It does appear that the rel= nofollow is in place on your site.
I doubt you can change it either. But doing what you are doing is nice, because I checked and the rell= nofollow isn’t being added to your links. So rock on and thanks for spreading the links out!
Date/Time: 6-23-2007 19:24:28 Comment #3367
Nashville SEO,
thanks for the info! I just submitted my blog to Google though-hopefully it won’t slow down the process.
Date/Time: 4-10-2008 04:59:12 Comment #13361
Great information, hope it will be helpful for my site. I will submit my blog. Thank you.