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Guest post by Andrew Rondeau
How can you get your blog indexed by Google in 24 hours? There is a lot of conflicting search engine optimization information available, especially when it comes to trying to beat the natural ranking systems and having your blog rank high in Google right from the start. While it’s possible to make a blog and have it indexed almost straight away, most people go about doing so with a poor overall strategy for success.
Ranking high on Google is all about long-term thinking, and going out to win everything in the first day will often see you wasting time and opportunity without getting anything in return. However, it’s very much possible to be indexed by Google in 24 hours or less. After you make a blog, just follow these simple ideas and you’ll see your website show up in the search results within a day.
1: Submit your blog to Google
Obviously you’ve got to submit your new blog to Google before it can be indexed. Some free blogging platforms will submit your blog for free, while others, especially self-hosted blogging platforms, require you to do it yourself. Either way, it’s an easy 5-minute job that can be done alongside other, more time consuming tasks. Use the Google webmasters tools to verify your site. Here’s how:
Step 1: Go to google.com/webmasters. Sign in using your Google Account or create an account if you don’t have one already.
Step 2: Add your blog site by clicking the “Add a site” button. Then type in the domain name you wish to add, and click “Continue”.
Step 3: Once added you will need to verify that you own this site. This can be done one of two ways, Meta Tag or Upload a HTML file. The Meta Tag way is, by far the easiest.
Step 4: Meta Tag verification. This method requires you to add a piece of code to your header.php file. Copy the Meta Tag code Google has asked you to copy to your blog site.
Step 5: In your WordPress dashboard go to “Appearance”, then “Editor” using the menu tabs on the left hand side.
Then click on Header (header.php) on the right hand side to open up the header template. Find the <head> tag highlighted, and BELOW it “paste” in the verification Meta tag Google has given you.
Step 6: Then scroll down and click on “Update File”
Step 7: Go back to the Google Webmasters Tool website and click “Verify” and Google will confirm that you own the site.
Step 8: After verifying, Google will display a confirmation page.
2: Submit your blog Sitemap to Google
If you are using WordPress, install the Google XML sitemap plugin that creates a sitemap of your blog that search engines can read.
You now want to add your blog’s sitemap. This is how:
Step 1: From within the Google Webmaster tools website, click on the domain name you have just added and it will open up a Dashboard for your site. On the left hand side menu, click on “Site Configuration” and then “Sitemaps”.
Step 2: Click “Submit a Sitemap” and enter the name of your sitemap. It should be sitemap.xml
It will take a few hours for the sitemaps to be analyzed and added. Then you can return here and make sure there are no errors, see how many URLs are being indexed and the time that Google last visited you. Even without the sitemap you will begin to get a list of the top search queries that your site is being found for, incoming links to your site, and the keywords that Google thinks your site is optimized for.
By verifying your site and adding your blog’s sitemap, you are telling Google your blog has arrived and it will quickly be indexed.
3: Use social bookmarking to generate links right away
Social bookmarking services are a great way to generate links to your new blog in record time. From simple community bookmarking websites to the giants of the web, submitting your website to social bookmarking services like StumbleUpon, Digg and Twitter can help you generate powerful, natural linkbacks. Log on and “favorite” your blog, and be sure to encourage your friends and colleagues to do the same.
4: Get posting on forums
Get your blog link in your forum signature and start posting it on as many forums as you can. Of course, spamming is never a good long-term idea, but some smart, relevant forum posts are a great way to bring in new SEO juice and links for your new blog. For some reason, Google tends to prioritize websites that are generating links already, so get out there and create as many as you possibly can for your new blog.
5: Install SEO plugins for your blog
Most blogs will come with a SEO pack available, and WordPress has a free one for download if you’re having trouble optimizing your blog. Search engine optimization is absolutely essential for generating blog traffic, and without putting time and thought into your SEO efforts it’s easy to lose what could be a great opportunity. Even though we’re focusing on short-term SEO speed, it’s good to think long-term right from the beginning. Download and use the All-in-one-Seo-Pack plugin. Check out my video to optimize your All-in-one-SEO-pack plugin set up: How to use the All in one SEO WordPress plugin to your advantage
Five ideas that take hardly any time will ensure you get you new blog seen and indexed by Google within 24 hours.
What tips would you add? Please share your views in the comments below.
Guest author Andrew Rondeau is the author of the free guide Income Blogging Guide. Click on the following link to grab your complimentary copy of Andrew’s Income Blogging Guide. You can also submit guest posts and share your SEO tips and tricks.
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Hi, great article – actually i need some help at this moment, because i am extremely frustrated with the fact that one of my sub-domain is NOT getting INDEXED since past 1month…
I’ve my site – om-nanya.com & i started an autoblog – autoblog.om-nanya.com about couple of months back… I’ve done ezine submissions, posted in numerous forums, built back-links, submitted my blog to Google, digg, buzz.yahoo, delicious, stumble but no use…
It has 28unique posts – it showed probs with robots.txt file – i never had one, so i created one & gave full access to Adsense and Googlebot crawlers… yet no success
Can you check this sub-domain & predict what’s possibly wrong – http://autoblog.om-nanya.com ?
FYI: Adsense is showing public service ads!! Damn…
Hey awesome… can’t believe i re-visited my robots.txt file & now all my pages are getting crawled… plz ignore the prev comment :)
Thanks for the info though…
Cheers
Om
Om,
Great news!
Andrew
Is it really so fast? Within one day? My experience does not says so!
Although it helps. But not so fast.
WordPressGuy,
Followin what I mention in the post, some of my new blog posts get indexed within just a few hours – 24 hours maximum, nowadays.
Andrew
Hey Andrew,
I got some of my posts indexed between 7 minutes and 1 hour these days, today my post got indexed in 7 minutes! I have no idea why this differences on time, but it’s find if as it’s not taking the whole day.
nice post!
Hesham
That’s fast!
Andrew
I went through your seo optimized blog sometime back while googling. Good to see your article here. You have a very nice keyword there i your domain. I just like it ,a well organized neat blog. On your Foot steps.
regards,
Sourish
Sourish
Thanks for those kinds words – I wish you all the success…good luck.
Andrew
Its depend on your domain age also, in my experiences, my site can indexed by google just in a few minute after posting
i was doing this tips long time ago, but why my site: laptoplink.org didn’t index by google until now,
this tips is working very well with my other site,
can anyone help me???
regards,
great,I think the tips are good,going to practice
I posted a question on digitalpoint forum then I tried to do some googling before my question is answered. Unbelievably, I found my own question my google in less than a couple of minutes.
Hi,
First of all Thank you, and the most important thing is, I was very worried as my website was taking too long to be indexed, I have been looking for number of resources on how to get my site indexed fast and that is when I landed over your web page, I tried everything you said above, and it got indexed in less than 6-hours :)
Thank you
Good information, people new in SEO can refer to post.
most social bookmarking sites are nofollow so dunno if that helps anymore.
Gosh Finaly I see the perfect steps with the help! I’m dealing with my blog – it has more then 4800 visits BUT all of the visits came not from Google !!! Now I hope this will work !!
I would just like to add that you could write an article for article directories because they get crawled a lot especially ezinearticles and go articles.
Thanks for the 5 tips in getting blog indexed i am trying to find out why some pages in the blog are indexed and others are not.