How to Get Your Blog into Google in less than 72 Hours
Posted by MickeyMouse in Internet
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.
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October 24, 2008 at 2:16 pm, mpn117 said:
just add my site we will see how long it takes the time is 15.15 24 oct 2008 uk time
January 28, 2009 at 5:04 pm, harry said:
when i typed in the website it just said URL contains illegal characters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 30, 2009 at 4:17 pm, VJ said:
Awesome dude… very appreciated
March 20, 2009 at 1:04 am, John said:
Cool thanks!
July 14, 2009 at 5:52 pm, steffsings said:
OK! thanks. I am sooooo grateful for this information! done – not 72 hours only 30mins.
July 19, 2009 at 4:32 pm, webguy303 said:
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
July 21, 2009 at 3:45 am, Alterity said:
But what do you do if you have a blogspot blog?
November 22, 2009 at 6:12 am, Free cooking recipes said:
Thats great info. I was wondering what the turn around time was with Google.
Dave
December 29, 2009 at 11:29 pm, Mark Moran said:
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.
March 27, 2010 at 5:31 pm, Anonymous said:
thanks! this is very helpful.
May 19, 2010 at 12:20 pm, classicdyechem said:
will try ur methods fairly new to blogging
July 05, 2010 at 4:48 am, Mayy said:
thanks.
July 19, 2010 at 4:30 am, Camvan012 said:
Thank you for a wonderful tip. Have a nice days!
August 24, 2010 at 11:19 am, Chevelle Hibberd said:
Just tried this, so am crossing my fingers and seeing how this goes!
September 08, 2010 at 2:21 am, Ahbraiikewtaz said:
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?
October 18, 2010 at 3:44 pm, Unpackaged Bride said:
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?
November 25, 2010 at 6:14 pm, bmx stunt bikes said:
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.
December 04, 2010 at 4:55 pm, My Brides Guide said:
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.
December 18, 2010 at 7:32 pm, Pulak1234567890 said:
when I tried to submit my sitemap it shows URL contains illegal characters
December 18, 2010 at 7:33 pm, Pulak1234567890 said:
pls help
February 03, 2011 at 1:09 pm, Godson said:
Thanks, Great way to get your site indexed fast. Thank you for the information.
March 25, 2011 at 5:24 pm, Master said:
Confusing at metatag for beginners
April 28, 2011 at 5:56 am, Christian Louboutin Sneakers said:
like this method.Before this