How to Get Your Blog into Google in less than 72 Hours

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Getting into Google is the most important step a blogger can take. Luckily, Google gives users a fastlane to getting indexed quickly. This step-by-step tutorial explains how to get your blog spidered as soon as possible.


Getting a blog into google frustrates many new bloggers. Just submitting the URL of your blog to google may not yield quick results.

The key is to use google sitemaps to give google the exact information needed to index your site.

1. First, create and log into your google sitemap account. If you already have a google account, even better. You do not need a seperate sitemap account for every site you have.

2. Add the full URL to your site in the Add Site textbox.



3. Next you need to verify your site. You can verify it either by uploading a certain file to the root of your site or by inserting a particular metatag into your blog. Some people might be able to upload files directly to the root directory of their site. Putting metatags into blogs is typically not very hard. Here are the directions for putting metatags into wordpress.



4. Next, you need to point google to your sitemap. The most simple method of doing this is just to use your RSS feed for your sitemap. DagonDesign has a nice sitemap generator plugin for wordpress. Arne has released a nice one as well.



The advantage of a true sitemap versus a RSS feed is that a true sitemap will contain all your pages while a RSS feed will only contain the pages in your feed. For older non-indexed sites, sitemaps are preferred. For new or already well-indexed sites, RSS feeds are fine.

5. Once spidered, you will also benefit from all the extra stats and SEO information that google sitemap uses as a reward for using their service.



Bonus:

Google’s adsense spider now adds (ads?) information to the main index as well. Therefore, if you already have an adsense account, placing an adsense box on it will also increase your chances of getting spidered. I have had amazingly quick results by placing an adsense for search on my new sites.

 

23 Comments -


  1. mpn117 said on October 24, 2008

    just add my site we will see how long it takes the time is 15.15 24 oct 2008 uk time

  2. harry said on January 28, 2009

    when i typed in the website it just said URL contains illegal characters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  3. VJ said on January 30, 2009

    Awesome dude… very appreciated :-)

  4. John said on March 20, 2009

    Cool thanks!

  5. steffsings said on July 14, 2009

    OK! thanks. I am sooooo grateful for this information! done – not 72 hours only 30mins.

  6. webguy303 said on July 19, 2009

    Yeah this is some good stuff. Site maps are invaluable! Good tip about the adsense spiders, I’ve noticed that too, by accident but it was a nice surprise :)

  7. Alterity said on July 21, 2009

    But what do you do if you have a blogspot blog?

  8. Free cooking recipes said on November 22, 2009

    Thats great info. I was wondering what the turn around time was with Google.

    Dave

  9. Mark Moran said on December 29, 2009

    Great advice. I’ve had a blog going for over a week now and it’s not been indexed. I’ll have a go at your methods and see what happens. Thanks again.

  10. Anonymous said on March 27, 2010

    thanks! this is very helpful.

  11. classicdyechem said on May 19, 2010

    will try ur methods fairly new to blogging

  12. Mayy said on July 5, 2010

    thanks.

  13. Camvan012 said on July 19, 2010

    Thank you for a wonderful tip. Have a nice days!

  14. Chevelle Hibberd said on August 24, 2010

    Just tried this, so am crossing my fingers and seeing how this goes!

  15. Ahbraiikewtaz said on September 8, 2010

    i couldnt figure out how to get the metatags into wordpress. even with the instructions i am so confused and really new to this. can anyone help me?

  16. Unpackaged Bride said on October 18, 2010

    It’s in the tools section down the sidebar, under Webmaster Tools Verification. Took me ages to find it too. They really don’t make this stuff easy for beginners, do they? :)

  17. bmx stunt bikes said on November 25, 2010

    I like this method.Before this I used to pay extra money to my URL host to add it on the google.
    Thanks for this valuable information.

  18. My Brides Guide said on December 4, 2010

    There are so many ways of showing up on google for free that I dont know why people pay for it, all it takes is quality content and a little work, thanks for sharing this with us.

  19. Pulak1234567890 said on December 18, 2010

    when I tried to submit my sitemap it shows URL contains illegal characters

  20. Pulak1234567890 said on December 18, 2010

    pls help

  21. Godson said on February 3, 2011

    Thanks, Great way to get your site indexed fast. Thank you for the information.

  22. Master said on March 25, 2011

    Confusing at metatag for beginners

  23. Christian Louboutin Sneakers said on April 28, 2011

    like this method.Before this

 

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