Introduction
One of the most frequent questions I am asked is, “How do I get my site indexed by Google?”
This post is my attempt to answer that question.
If I have left anything out or you know of any other way to get indexed quickly then please share with the class by leaving a comment below.
1. Submit your RSS feed
If you have a new blog then you most likely already have an RSS feed created for you.
What’s you want to do is make sure that you submit your RSS feed to various RSS feed aggregators. You can read more about submitting your feeds and a list of directories here:
Submit Your RSS Feeds to RSS Directories
The most important of these is Google reader:
http://www.google.com/reader/
If you don’t have an account with Google reader I highly suggest that you get one. Whenever you submit a new RSS feed to follow with Google reader it notifies Google of the site’s existence.
2. Google bookmarks
Google along with other major search engines has given people the ability to have their own customized home page. Part of this customization includes having a list of bookmarks of sites the user wants to visit again.
Anytime Google sees a bookmark on someone’s page I suspect that they add it to their list of sites to visit.
If you’re not familiar with the Google homepage just go to:
http://www.google.com/ig
Hotmail and Yahoo also offer similar services and I highly recommend you take advantage of them.
3. Use Craigslist
Another creative way for Google to notice your new site is to get a link on Craigslist.
Now this is a little gray hat or black hat depending on who you ask so please don’t abuse it.
So what you want to do is go to Craigslist for some large city like Chicago and then look for Gigs and then for writing.
You’re going to post something under Gigs >> Writing about how you are looking for a potential writer for your blog.
Be sure to include a link to your website with the proper keywords in the anchor tag.
For example:
<a href="http://mysite.com">My keywords here</a>
Google crawls Craigslist frequently and will find your link.
I highly suggest doing this only once in one city.
Another side benefit of this is that you might actually find a good writer to help you produce content for your site.
Please don’t abuse this.
4. Post comments on blogs that don’t use nofollow
Posting relevant comments on blogs that don’t have nofollow in their links is another great way to get indexed very fast.
For more information on how to find blogs that don’t use nofollow go here:
Why nofollow matters and how to find blogs that don’t use it
5. Buy links
If you have some money and very little time then simply buying some links might be the easiest way to go.
There are several services out there including:
http://www.textlinkbrokers.com
6. Article marketing
Writing articles and submitting them to Ezine Articles is another good way to get indexed quickly.
I have covered article marketing in depth in several previous blog posts:
7. Social media
Social media can be a great way for you to get exposure to your site. But submitting your site to zillions of different social media sites can be a major pain.
Services like onlywire.com have really simplified this process.
I made a short video that shows you how onlywire works:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/1570_video-social-bookmarking-made-easy/
8. Link exchanges
Link exchanges are one of the oldest ways for people to get exposure to their website and get indexed.
You can search Google looking for link exchanges but that’s kind of a pain and can be very time consuming.
Luckily there are services like linked market http://www.linkmarket.com where people looking to exchange links come together.
Also checkout 3 places to find reciprocal linking partners
9. Become the Top Commentator on blogs
This method takes more time than the others but can help you get indexed and build tons of backlinks super fast.
The method involves placing a few comments on a blog so you show up on their list of “Top Commentators” which gives you a backlink to your site. The best part is that this list (with the backlink to your site) is displayed on every page of the blog.
It’s all a little complicated and have written a 1,000 word post detailing the process:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/1620_super-fast-back-links/
10. Get Free One-Way Backlinks
There are a few sites that will give you a free one-way backlinks with no strings attached:
- http://simplesitesbigprofits.org/free-back-links/
- http://myrtlebeachhouserentals.org/free-backlinks/
- http://www.curefortoenailfungus.org/free-back-links/
- http://nickstraffictricks.com/1537_free-back-links-to-your-site/
11. Harness The Power Of StumbleUpon
My very best source of traffic is StumbleUpon. Checkout my stats for the last week:
What you need to do is signup for an account with stumbleupon.com and stumble one of your pages on your sites.
Then if you can get one of your friends to stumble it too then you’ll start getting traffic. All you need is 1-3 people to stumble your site.
To help you out, I will stumble your sites if you like:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/can-i-stumble-your-site/
What do you think?
I would love to hear your thoughts so please leave a comment below.
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All good tips Nick…but you missed a couple I use all the time.
One of the fastest ways to get indexed is through Craig’s List, but I don’t use it the way you do..go to the events/announcement section and just announce your new site…works like a press release…google picks ‘em up fast.
The very fastest way I’ve learned to get indexed is just to register your site for google adwords account…even if you don’t plan on buying any traffic…..works like a charm.
Regards,
MichaelB
I agree. I threw a couple press releases out one day and by the end of the week they were already indexed. Adwords are a great way also. I’ve done the same as Michael has done.
Cheers,
Armando
great tips
Lots of great advice, Nick. I’ve made a note of these to use for my campaigns later on.
Just wanted to add that while ezinearticles is great and arguable the best article posting website, I’ve found Hubpages is also very god. It ranked a couple of my pages in less than a day and all I had done was google bookmark it! Granted, my page targeted a long-tail keyword, but it works nonetheless.
Keep up the great posts Nick!
Absea
Oh Hubpages is great too! Thanks.
Thanks for this wonderful collection of resouces.
Hope I get my site more into SEs with your tips and tricks.
Btw, just 78 days left until christmas – Are your Sites ready for the holidays?
Nick, people like you are such a blessing especially for novice bloggers like me. I learned a lot from what you shared and I am grateful that I stopped here in your site.
Thanks!
Hey Nick…
Followed your advice and joined stumble… this is something I would not have thought of… I wish I had done this ages ago!
Thanks for your great tips…
More helpful info….I have a StumbleUpon account but didn’t Realise that you had to get someone else to stumble your site as well!!
Never thought about the Google reader as well, totally forgot about that one.
Cheers Nick
Hi Nick i have just watched Chris Farrells Traffic Course Module 9 and he mention you are friends.
So i just had to visit your site!
I think its great and you have helped me even more with finding backlinks.
Thank you
Thanks Craig! Chris has some great stuff.
Another selection of useful tools and tips. I think I’ll be using this as my check sheet whenever I create a new website. I’ve never considered a few of the suggestions so I will be interested to see if they make a difference in getting ranked in search engines quickly.
Wow you got a lot traffic from StumbleUpon Nick, I will try to add my new blog to Google reader
I had managed to become a top commentator on one blog on environment. However, only recently I realized that they have reset the top commentator blog positions. So I am back to zero. Can they actually do that? I am regularly writing articles for ezinearticles. Are they any other platforms which support articles which Google indexes?
I think I will have to go through your article on submitting article feeds as I can’t make head or tails what it is about.
Thanks, I think I am going to post a link on craigslist now.
In my experience these scripts reset themselfs every month
It’s duplicate content considered by google, because i have old blog (blogspot) then i export to wordpress with new domain but it’s really hard to get indexed by google not like new fresh domain and fresh content.
Adding some fresh content to your blog would certainly help you to get indexed.
Hey Nick,
nice tips – for the craiglist one I got lot of flak from the moderators, so you have to be careful what you post were and make it not so obvious
Good point. I’m thinking about removing the part about craigslist.
OK, I’m going to let the cat out of the bag. this is my “secret” — and it’s quite a good one.
http://ismysiteindexed.com/
It will tell you if your site is indexed — and also GET it indexed in minutes, with no work.
Pretty cool.
Backlink it’s most important to get indexed fast because i have tested with 2 blog and one blog have deep link from other blog, every new post get indexed within 3 minutes but neither with my second blog because i didn’t doing links building
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Cool. thanks for redirecting me here!
Great i need this tips, because i just started build new blog and till now haven’t index by google.
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Agree with you Nick one-way backlinks it’s really helps to get indexed by google
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Nick is true if we leave a comment more than 10 in same day we will get into google sandbox ?
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A lot of the stuff regarding the Google sandbox is a myth. You can get your website indexed by Google rather quickly if you build good content and build lots of back links. You also need to utilize social bookmarking. Look around my website and you’ll find blog posts that go cover each one of these.
Maybe i must try article marketing, but i think get update regularly is also good to get indexed by google, because google bot will crawl regularly too.
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Updating your content will help for sure.
Do have try buy links Nick, because many people said google don’t like this method.
Thanks
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Many people still do this with success. For example if you paid me $5 for to put a link to you on my website, how would Google know? That said, you don’t have to buy links to get indexed.
Its always handy to go to each search engine as soon as your website is complete and type in “add url” you should be given the option to let the search engines know your site now exists. You can quickly get indexed that way
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But mots of social media use nofollow, so how they will help to get indexed by google Nick, can you explain about it.
and i just build my blog today, so i must learn how to get indexed.
Sorry for asking Nick because i am newbie
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There are new popular sites popping up every day and Google wants to know about each one fast as it can. One of the best ways to do this is to monitor social media to see what’s becoming popular right now. My understanding is that Google is more likely to index your site quickly if it appears in social media regardless of nofollow. When your site is indexed by Google sends out their crawlers out to find out what your site is about. This is a completely separate issue from ranking high for a particular keyword.
Thank you Nick, now i understand why social media also important to get indexed by google fast and i think i must submit my blog to social media now.
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It looks like stumbleupon is being good to you Nick. I have trouble getting lots of traffic from stumbleupon, but I guess that is because I am more concentrated on the search engines. I think that article marketing is a great way to get links, and get your site indexed the fastest. Especially if you post an article on ezinearticles.com
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Stumble upon is an interesting thing. It can be a great source of traffic for things that are remarkable like things that are funny or shocking or incredibly useful. If your content doesn’t fall into one of the categories you probably won’t get as much traffic from stumble upon.
Nick,
I have learnt and achieved more regarding backlinks in the short space or reading your blog than any other method.
I am new at Internet Marketing and so grateful that you have taken the time to share.
LOVE your work…
Thank for your article Mr Nick. I will practice one by one your advice how to get more back link and traffic to my site/blog. I like most this article.
Hello Nick
Thx again for all the awesome tips – if I’m really in a hurry I just tweet my pages and they get indexed within a day or 2 pretty quick without spamming them – usually make it the last tweet of the day and only one for the day.
I’ve never used craiglist before and would like to try them out. Tweeted your post.
Cheers
Maggie from
http://www.weddingspeechesandtoasts.net
Thanks nick, it helped me a lot…
I’ve tried the ways you mentioned, it is quite helpful to get indexed, but I have one blog and until now still not indexed by google, although I’ve tried various ways.
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