The Steps I Take to Get A New Site Indexed In Google

14 December 2010 ~ 5 Comments

Getting indexed in Google and other search engines is one of the critical steps that you need to accomplish first. Take note that this is not the ranking part. Being indexed just means that your web page is already in Google’s database. But if you’ve chosen your keywords properly then there’s a big chance that your web page is already ranked on the top 10 pages or maybe in the first page of Google for your keywords after indexing.

What I’d like to share in this post are the steps that I take to get a brand new WordPress website indexed in Google. I decided to share this because I’m having some consistency in getting a brand new homepage indexed in less than a week and sometimes I can even get indexed in 2-3 days. But I think the reason I’m getting this kind of quick results is because of the low competition for the keywords that I’m targeting. It also helps that the domain I registered contains my main keywords.

There are a lot of ways that you can do this and one of the popular ways is to use some social bookmarking to get indexed quickly. But like I’ve said in my previous posts, I’m not really a fan of using social bookmarking. If you’re interested to learn more indexing techniques then you can just do a simple Google search for “how to get website indexed in google” or whatever term you like.

Let’s Get Indexed!

First thing that I do is go to Settings -> Permalinks and change the permalink option so the URL would be more search engine friendly.

Next, I go to Settings -> Writing then scroll down to the Update Services text box and input a list of pinging services. Here’s the list that I use:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://1470.net/api/ping

http://api.feedster.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://bblog.com/ping.php

http://bitacoras.net/ping

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC

http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php

http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc

http://blogmatcher.com/u.php

http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc

http://coreblog.org/ping

http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt

http://mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatt

http://ping.amagle.com

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.blo.gs

http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc

http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc

http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc

http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.myblog.jp

http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php

http://ping.weblogs.se

http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php

http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b

http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogoole.com/ping

http://www.blogoon.net/ping

http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates

http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1

http://www.blogroots.com/tbpopuli.blog?id=1

http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php

http://www.blogsnow.com/ping

http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi

http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc

http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php

http://www.mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatter/ping.php

http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC

http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

After that I then write the first content as post and include the keyword in the first sentence. The keyword will link back to my domain using the main keyword as anchor text.

Now I’m not really sure if this has any effect whatsoever on how Google crawls and indexes your homepage but so far it’s been working out for me. This is some kind of internal linking inside your site and don’t be too concerned if you’re not getting this.

Now after publishing the first content I then install and activate the Google XML Sitemap plugin. After activation, you go to the options and build the sitemap manually.

For the last step, I will install the All In One SEO Pack plugin. Actually you can do this before the sitemap part but I believe you can do this in any order.

And that’s about it. These are the steps that I religiously follow whenever I want a brand new website to be indexed quickly. Don’t sweat it if you can’t get your homepage indexed in a couple of days because you can always do some article marketing to build links. I hope that you’ve found some valuable tips in this post and if you have any questions then feel free to use the comment form below.

5 Responses to “The Steps I Take to Get A New Site Indexed In Google”

  1. Annelize 15 December 2010 at 2:19 am Permalink

    Hi Raymond,
    Thanks for this update. I went to my blog with all the information you gave at hand to implement them in my Blog, however, the update services was lacking on my WP. This has probably to do with the Theme or Plugins used?
    Looking forward to your next tutorial.
    Annelize

  2. Raymond Selda 15 December 2010 at 1:45 pm Permalink

    Hi Annelize,

    I’m not really sure what’s up with your WP but I think it’s not dependent on your theme or plugins. I think you just missed it. Try to go back at the admin section and look again.

  3. Annelize 15 December 2010 at 6:25 pm Permalink

    Hi Raymond,
    I found it as a plugin. They mention that for some reason WordPress removes the Update Services ability (under Settings – Writing). I already installed the plugin and followed your instructions.
    Thanks for caring,
    Annelize

  4. Tim 30 December 2010 at 6:52 am Permalink

    Hey Raymond – first congrats on your success with the “no zero days” on clickbank! Currently I have all zero days :P

    Another way to get indexed FAST is to place a block of Adsense on your site…even if you don’t intend to run adsense. By inserting the adsense code it makes Google aware that you have a site and that it needs evaluation so relevant ads can be served. I’ve had several sites indexed in a day by only adding an adsense block.

    Of course that only works if you have an adsense account. Either way, the steps you outlined are perfect and well advised!

  5. Raymond Selda 30 December 2010 at 10:34 am Permalink

    Thanks for that nice tip Tim! I might try that out someday. :)


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