How do you let Search engines discover your site?

[yuri21]

How do you let Search engines discover your site? Do you use various techniques like article marketing, backlinks, etc., (as Lynn covered in her articles) in order to tell Google/Yahoo/etc. that your site exists?

'Cos I don't think manual indexing really works.

[Brismom1]

Diddo above, I just want to add that this kind of marketing when done right can put you on the first page for your targeted keywords that you are marketing your site for. It is fairly easy too it just needs to be consistent and constant.

[christianwins]

I've seen mine get indexed quicker by putting links to it then by submitting it.

[wade_watson]

I've heard that setting up a site map gets a site indexed more quickly and in my experience, that seems to be that case. I don't think it helps your ranking at all, though. The Google Site Map plugin for WordPress makes one automatically. Most marketers seem to agree that in the early months of a website, it's good to update frequently (more than once a week). Google decides the frequency that it scans you site on how often it finds changes.

[ress]

My new site got indexed in less than 24 hours but I used a bookmarking software for that. Personally I would go for article marketing and social bookmarking. You can also try setting up a wordpress blog with your keyword then put a link somewhere in the middle pointing back to your site.

[yuri21]

Hmmm... your replies shed light on the question of: why is my 30dc course talking about articles and web2.0. So so that explains everything! :)

[Regina]

I've heard that setting up a site map gets a site indexed more quickly and in my experience, that seems to be that case. I don't think it helps your ranking at all, though. The Google Site Map plugin for WordPress makes one automatically.
I agree and saw it work for one of my websites recently.

I guess the most important part for us to understand that if we apply the strategies of seo - we'll see results sooner than later (from one who comes from the school of hard heads :D)

[deannatroupe]

I use article marketing, social media, blog commenting, and forum posting as ways to get backlinks to my site.

[yuri21]

Btw, silly question: I heard that Google ignores most social bookmarking sites these days. So basically, you bookmark your articles not for the backlinks but for the indexing purpose, right?

[AlexNewell]

I'm one of the people who believe that " a link is a link" so I think social bookmarking has it's place.

More important is that some web 2.0 sites "no follow" links so these links do not add to PageRank but it is still a link and folks can still follow it!

If you follow me...

:-)

[HarryJackson]

Hi Yuri,Hope you get answer from my other friends i just want to share my view and experience..If you have a new site then before submitting Site map try to build some good back links toward your site..I experience that if You rely on site map then Google put your site in a queue..That may take some time..But if you create some High quality back links then Google will definitely crawl your site..

[yuri21]

I'm one of the people who believe that " a link is a link" so I think social bookmarking has it's place.

More important is that some web 2.0 sites "no follow" links so these links do not add to PageRank but it is still a link and folks can still follow it!

If you follow me...

:-)


Hmmm... so even though Google ignores "nofollow", I see that some sites use it and there are others that also use and recognise its usage, right?

[yuri21]

Hi Yuri,Hope you get answer from my other friends i just want to share my view and experience..If you have a new site then before submitting Site map try to build some good back links toward your site..I experience that if You rely on site map then Google put your site in a queue..That may take some time..But if you create some High quality back links then Google will definitely crawl your site..

Well, I see this info would be very useful for my next site 'cos Google already crawled, indexed and ranked my site. :p

Except for the link I posted in this forum on a thread, I haven't done any link strategies yet. :)

[AlexNewell]

"If you have a new site then before submitting Site map try to build some good back links toward your site." That sounds like a good tip and I'm going to try it out.

Thanks Harry!


:-)

[AlexNewell]

"even though Google ignores "nofollow"

But Google does not ignore "no follow" - it just leaves them out when it calculates PageRank. google searches and finds everything - even logically when people put "no index" in their code, Google finds that page, crawls it and then dumps it from it's database.

I just shudder to think of Google's carbon footprint - the datacenters it runs are HUGE.

"do no evil" Haha!

[yuri21]

i see first thing u should to start with " sitmap "

Yeah one of those things that anyone should do, logically.

Alex: aha, thanks for clearing up that. ;)

[Lynn Terry]

I cover the NoFollow Attribute in Link Building 101 (http://www.clicknewz.com/2108/link-building-101/) for anyone interested ;)

[areaK]

Yes, to get indexed faster...submit the the SEs, set up a site map AND get some links from a FEW places like Digg, a really good article site and/or StumbleUpon. Don't get too link crazy until you've been indexed but you need to give them that push to get indexed faster.

[AlexNewell]

Getting indexed should not be a "problem", getting onto page one of the search engines is your problem.

Before you start make sure that each page or post has a unique and appropriate title and meta description and that your site has a site map.

The very first thing to do is to use a small number of social bookmarking sites - like digg or Stumblupon.

Then start link building with articles, press releases and directory submissions.

[aussieroo1]

I start with on-page optimization through the use of keywords in the title and meta descriptions as well as proper renaming of images. Search engines can only read text which means that images that don't have proper renaming might not be too helpful for a website.