March 5th, 2010 by Dan

If you have built your website and are now ready to get indexed, there are some tips that you can use to get indexed faster. It can take a while for your new website to get indexed, but if you follow some easy steps you may be able to get indexed without having to wait as long.

1.    Get Links - search engines follow links that are online to see where they go and what they can find. One of the easiest and most effective methods to get your website indexed is to get links from other websites.  The more links that you can submit online, the easier it is for search engines to find your website. There are a lot of places that you can submit your links to.  When you use social web sites, like Twitter or Facebook or any other social media site, you can create links to your website. If you have a blog that you use on your website, find websites to get and place links for the blog also.

2.    Site structure – having a good structure to your website is important if you want to get indexed quickly with Google and other search engines. You need to have a clear path of how your website works and make sure that it is easy to get to. If your website is well organized it makes it much easier for search engines to find what they are looking for and get it indexed.  If you are not sure that your website is structured well, you may want to get it analyzed or use SEO tools that can tell you what areas you need to improve on.

3.    Navigate to Google Browsers - you should be able to create links on your website that will direct users to use a browser from a search engine. This can be in the form of a text link or search box that you can place on any page of your website that will allow users to search from the links that you place.

4.    Mention URL on Message boards – if you use message boards you can post messages about your new website and be sure to include the URL. The more that your URL is listed on different websites and message boards, the more it will be seen by search engines and you can get indexed more quickly. If you do not currently belong to any message boards, you may want to consider signing up and seeing what they can do for you. It can be a great way to get your website out there for search engines to find.

5.    Perform link requests on search engines - you can submit website and link requests to search engines to help you get links to your website and find ways to use other links on your website. There are a lot of websites and blogs that you can use online to submit link requests to. When you are going to send requests to websites for links, you want to make sure that you are choosing websites that have information related to your business and website and you want to verify that the other websites are going to be a good idea to post on your own website.  Link building is a vital part of SEO.

6.    Create a Wikipedia entry - this is a great and easy way to help get your website links online and get noticed by search engines. Wikipedia is a great resource for you to use and if you place an entry on the website, you can attract more attention to your links and be able to have search engines find and follow your links. Because search engines display results from Wikipedia for a lot of searches, having your website listed in Wikipedia can help your website get better rankings.  However they won’t allow business profiles, so you need to have done something newsworthy in order to be accepted.

7.    Do a site profile search – when you are going to start promoting and marketing your website, you want to make sure that you are able to find it. If you are not able to find it, no one else will be either. An easy way to test this is to do a site profile search of your website and see if it returns any results in the search engines. This is also a great way to see what other marketing you need to do and what areas you need to improve on that can help you get indexed faster. Looking after your brand perception online is known as internet reputation management.

8.    Submit links to top directories - you can submit links to your websites on all of the major search engines. Each of the search engines has a different URL that you can use to submit your links to and you can easily find them online. When you are submitting your links, make sure that they are going to the information and pages on your website that you have the related content on. Only submit links that are going to be easy for the search engines to get to and that lead them directly to the pages that you want. If you submit links that are misdirected, you are not likely going to get indexed from the search engines.

9.    Get links from bloggers - bloggers who spend a lot of time online researching and following different search engines and companies can be a great source of leads and links. You can find bloggers who follow and blog about the SEO industry and other great marketing websites that you can find the links to and start using. The best way to start to find bloggers to get links from is to search for the topics that are going to help you boost your online presence and that are related to the topics of your website.

10.    Submit links to top social bookmarking web sites - the popularity of social media websites has opened up doors to being able to reach a vast amount of people and still be able to target the audiences that you want. Using social bookmarking websites is one of the best things that you can do when you are trying to get your website indexed. There are 50 major social bookmarking web sites that you can submit links to for your website. Using these is not only easy, but it allows you to reach the markets that you want to reach and also be able to have all of your social contacts easily connected online.

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