How to Get Your New Website Indexed in a Flash

If you've just created a new website, it's understandable that you're going to want to start building backlinks and promoting it right away. However, it's important that your site is indexed by Google before add content or publicize it too much.

We're going to look at some of the best ways to get your site indexed fast.

Tips to get your site indexed in search engines fast

Whilst your site will still exist online as soon as it goes live, it won't be accessibly to people via search engines until those engines have indexed it. You can still give someone your URL, but websites normally get most of their traffic from search engines.

Before people can find your site on the likes of Google, such search engines need to "know" about it. Most search engines have crawlers that move around the internet and "log" new sites and pages. Once Google knows about your website, it'll find new content much faster, and said content will be available to people who search for it.

Indexing your site won't necessarily rank it

It's important that you don't get indexing confused with ranking or optimising for search engines. If Google has indexed your site, that only means it knows about it and that it'll be available in search results, it doesn't mean it'll necessarily rank highly for a specific search term. That's search engine optimisation, and it's a whole other topic.

If you want to boost your site's rankings in Google (or any other search engine), you need to build backlinks and offer content that is relevant to a particular keyword. However, it's important that you get your site indexed before you focus your efforts on optimization.

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Create a sitemap

Search engines love sitemaps, and they're one of the best ways of letting Google know that content on your site has changed. Most sitemaps should be XML documents stored on your server. Google looks for them, and any new content will be indexed even faster. There are a number of sitemap plug-ins for Wordpress that'll create one for you automatically.

Submit your URL to search engines

Whilst search engines are on the lookout for your site, submitting it to them manually will help speed the process along. This is especially useful for search engines other than Google, who might not have the same crawling process. Google is obviously the most important search engine, and should send you the largest chunk of your traffic, but you shouldn't neglect the others.

Ping your site

This should probably be the first step after you publish your site, and before you do anything else. Free services such as pingomatic.com or pingler.com "notify" the internet of your site by pinging its URL to a number of places. Simply pinging your site could get it indexed in under a day.

You can also use social bookmarks such as jumptags.com to share your website's URL.

How do you know that your site has been indexed?

If you've followed these guidelines then your site should be indexed in around 24 hours. In order to find out if your site's been indexed by Google, simply search for your URL in long format, like "http://www.yoursite.com". If the results show up, then your site's been indexed.

Peter Ellington

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