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What are the best ways to get indexed in Google? I don't just want to "sit around and wait" for Google to pick it up through a few random links.
Does joining Adsense or submitting a Sitemap make google index you faster?
Posts on the blog site are picked up almost immediately, and also happily show up in google blog search, among other blog search services. Posts on the standard site (no sitemap) take a few weeks to show up and google's index and never appear anywhere else.
In terms of rankings, I don't know if one is better than the other. But, well...a sitemap helps lead googlebot to pages it might not otherwise find. So, even if a sitemap doesn't help your rankings, it is highly likely to lead to more pages in the index...which is a good thing all by itself.
It really helps. I have verified with some of my domains. When I put under construction websites under some temp subdomains and send it to my clients, I see that web page gets indexed.
I have never bothered with sitemaps and never done me any harm!
Then you cannot know how much *good* sitemaps may - or may not - have done for your sites.
Send it to someone via gmail!
It really helps. I have verified with some of my domains. When I put under construction websites under some temp subdomains and send it to my clients, I see that web page gets indexed.
That is kind of creepy, honestly, to think that Google is going through your email and checking out the links you send people.
I don't think you can make the assumption that Google checks out links in gmail from the above post. A better explanation, that Google is spidering publicly available referrer logs, can be found in this discussion....
Why is Google indexing my entire web server?
[webmasterworld.com...]
Note that the links to Google's explanation, which I cite in this discussion, currently all return 404s, and in fact the content is no longer available on google.com. I don't feel this changes the validity of the explanation, though. Server logs have been a well-known source of information for many years.
This said, you don't merely want to get indexed in Google. You want to rank for relevant terms that are searched. This requires some forethought about your content, and then getting good links to that content from relevant pages that are indexed in Google and are well-linked themselves.
That is kind of creepy, honestly, to think that Google is going through your email and checking out the links you send people.
A related new discussion: [webmasterworld.com...]
As you'll see in that thread, I've tested the idea that email links in gmail might generate spidering and indexing. It isn't happening for me.
Sitemaps however are another critter altogether. Faster indexing of a new url through sitemaps can be shown if you do the test. On a very large site, this can be a big asset. Will a sitemap help a new site get indexed faster? I'd say it certainly might get discovered faster, spidered a bit sooner. That's not the same as getting included in the index or, even more, ranking well. But it is a first step.
This applies for getting indexed sooner, just simply post your link on a high quality page that google regularly scans and you will be listed within 5-10 days at most.
Good luck with your new venture
After 3 HOURS, Google crawled that main site, found the link, and now my new page is indexed as #6 when I search it. Id say that adding a few links to some hig traffic sites will do the trick.
Just a word of caution, since your site is only 12 days old. It is common for Google to show good rankings very early in a site's history only to have those rankings go away. We've been calling it the honeymoon effect. So don't panic if this happens to your site. Just keep on building quality and over time you will attain more stable rankings.
Usually within a couple of days.
Means
Usually within a couple of days of the two-year wait to get included. If, indeed the site ever gets included.
Subtle difference, but worth rereading both quotes until it makes sense ;)
