5 Surefire Ways to Get Indexed in Google in Less than 24 Hours
By now, it’s become very obvious that if you want to be a successful blogger, quality content is the key. The notion widely accepted is, if you hang in there and be persistent with your blogging, you’ll eventually be able to achieve the right balance of traffic and make hoards of cash along the way. While that’s somewhat right, there’s stuff you can get going to:
- Quickly index your fresh, new blog by all the major Search Engines
- Get targeted traffic to your weblog
- Enhance your Search Engine rankings and preferably grab the top spots
In the world of instant 2 minute noodles, why would anyone want to wait? Content might be the king or even the queen, but that does not mean you should sit back and wait for traffic to flow in without you taking any action – not really what you are aiming. So, here’s how you do it:
Get Indexed, the Super Fast Way
Now, the burning question is, if you launched a new blog today, is it possible to get it into Google in the next 24 hours? The answer is a resounding yes.
If you want all the major Search Engines to index your blog, the easiest way to do it is to show them you’re “well connected”, in other words get a link back from established blogs. This works almost always and your blog should be indexed in less than a day.
However, in our case, the blog is newly launched and it wouldn’t be easy getting bloggers to talk about it, unless you’re Tom Cruise of course. Therefore, instead of going around trying to impress bloggers with your new blog, you need to find your way around getting indexed by the big G fast. So, is it doable? Well, if you’re ready to put in a little effort, it definitely is!
1. Blog Oriented Communities
If you look around, you’ll find quite a few blog communities that rank very well in Google and as well as all the other major Search Engines. These include: Blogged, MyBlogLog,BlogCatalog and NetworkedBlogs, especially MyBlogLog. What does this mean to you? It simply means that if you get your blog listed with these blog specific communities, Google will be bound to index your blog. So, all you need to do is go to each of these community portals, grab an account and list your blog on them. Once you’re through, you’ll have a dedicated page on all these sites.
What you need to take care of: Pay close attention to your blog’s description (have it well structured), tags and keywords (throw in related tags and keywords into your listing, which the other members will use to discover your blog), proper branding (put out your log, screen shots, avatars and all that’s important for your brand building to make sure you’re not leaving any stones unturned), and don’t forget to list your blog in the appropriate category.
2. Site Valuation Services
If you have been on the web for a while, you must have come across online services that claim to show you how much your site is worth. Although they are very genuine in their approach, what we’re interested is in the fact that these sites have a good Search Engine ranking.
It’s easy utilizing them for your own benefit, all you need to do is get on them and analyze your blog’s worth. This automatically creates a dedicated page for your blog, which then easily gets indexed by Google. Here are a few such services that tell you your site’s worth – StatBrain, WebsteOutlook, WebtrafficAgents, CubeStat, etc.
3. Feed Aggregation Services
Feed Aggregators are live and robust, by listing your blog with services like:OctoFinder, Feed-Squirrel, FeedAdage, you make your job of indexing easier. Once you submit your feed to these sites, they’ll start tracking your new, upcoming posts and index them on their site as soon as you publish them. Upon clicking your blog post titles, readers will be redirected to your original blog post, which is nothing but free, quality traffic, while Google indexes your new posts.
4. Social Media Sites
One of the key tricks to use Social Media Sites to get your blog indexed by the Search Engines is to create an account on them with your blog’s URL as your username. Specifically with all those targeted keywords.
For instance, if the name of your blog is SmoothWork, it makes sense to grab the same username with Twitter (@SmoothWork), and have the same keyword in your Facebook URL (wwww.facebook.com/SmoothWork). By including your keyword in the username on all the popular Social Media Sites, your blog will be indexed much faster, and later on it will help in the “brand building” process of your blog.
So, register an account on all the leading Social Media Sites for your new blog, mainly:Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Digg, Delicious, etc. Keep in mind that it’s always a good idea to have a separate account on these social sites for all of your projects. This avoids any confusion and helps you focus on posting messages related to that particular project. Slow and steady, this builds a community of people interested in your project’s subject.
Important: Most of the Social Sites such as Twitter, employ the use of “No Follow” tags on the links you post, which simply means that these links don’t give you any particular edge as far as SEO goes. However, it’s still worth getting a spot for your keywords, as these pages can individually rank on themselves in the major Search Engines and can help you get good positions in multiple search results for the same keyword.
Step by Step Fail-Proof Method for Getting Indexed In 24 Hours
Here’s a step by step method that guarantees your blog gets indexed in Google lightening fast:
Step 1: Create an account and submit your blog to the following Blog Communities:
Step 2: Create an account and submit your blog to the following Site Valuation Services:
Step 3: Submit your blog’s feed to the following Feed Aggregators:
Step 4: Ping your blog with http://pingomatic.com/
Step 5: Book mark your blog with the following social bookmarking sites:
That’s all there’s to it. As soon as you are done with the process of registering accounts on the above sites and listing your new blog with them, you should be able to see it in Google’s Search Results in less than 24 hours. You’ll notice that many times it’ll be indexed in just a few hours.
Last but not the least, getting your blog indexed is only the start, you still need to sustain your ranking in order get consistent traffic. And this is where the real value of content comes into play. Without helpful content that people can use, none of your efforts will give any substantial results.
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Would you pay to read your newspaper online?
Newspapers are struggling to find a new business model for their online editions. Some have folded at the challenge and packed up the printing presses while others have thrown up pay walls. The only question editors want the answer to is, are readers prepared to pay for online content?
It’s the Sunday morning ritual shared by millions across the world. You trot down to the local newsagent and hand over a few dollars for a newspaper. When you get home you sift through the sections – fashion magazine, sports, international news, business and the TV guide – with each of your family taking their pick. Some of the more dedicated of you may purchase a newspaper every day but I’m guessing the majority (and I include myself) would rather log on to the laptop and read the same newspaper stories online for free. This has resulted in many commentators accusing the online reader of contributing to the demise of print.
It’s no secret that the business model associated with print journalism has become as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike. Advertisers have been drifting away from newspapers, magazines and local publications for years now in favor of online platforms, and classified ads have gone online too – they were the newspapers’ main source of income but is now disappearing. ‘What now?’ is the question on every media tycoon’s lips.
I was at the Guardian’s Changing Media Summit in London the other week where the major players in UK media industry put their brains together to answer that very question. Tony Cohen, the chief executive of Freemantle Media (they make American Idol, How Clean is Your House and The Price is Right) proposed at the summit that viewers should pay around 5p (8 cents) to watch television programs on demand.
Cohen said: “We need to maximize the value of our work, we need to look again at on-demand viewing and at how to get extra money from pay-per-view. Until now it has been a nice add-on confined to computers.”
We can access so much information for free online it seems like a bitter pill to swallow to suddenly be asked to cough up the cash before we get to view a show or read an article. But maybe the tide is beginning to turn?
A report published this week by US research group JD Powers and Associates they found 40% of bloggers were willing to pay for news content.
“The most commonly cited reasons included the fact they they find value in professional journalism and that they don’t want the quality of news to decline,” the report said.
It got me thinking about how newspapers would make money from new advertising streams. The Guardian newspaper launched an open source platform in early March 2009 which allows them to share content through an API and share ad revenue too.
At the time of its launch Emily Bell, director of digital content at the Guardian, said the open platform would herald “a new chapter in our history and a new foundation for the future of journalism.”
It’s a bold statement, but hats off to the Guardian, they’re keeping themselves in the money loop through ads and are using a creative means of getting revenue from their content.
I think this is a much more reader-friendly way of making money from the web rather than setting up pay walls or using subscription methods. Although it hasn’t stopped Arthur Sultzberger of The New York Times from announcing the paper is likely to go back to charging for content, as they did with the ill-fated Times Select web service a few years back. It’s interesting to see how the big guns are reacting to the funding crisis surrounding print. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Christian Science Monitor have packed up the printing presses to go exclusively online, and as Wordtracker reported in our interview with Dan Roberts from Hearst Publishing, predicted web-only publications would be on the rise.
Securing a presence online hasn’t been a major problem for newspapers or magazines. They are in the enviable position of having masses of content; original, well written and intelligent content. It’s how to make money that’s been the headache and it’s becoming clear that there are some newspapers who will do just about anything to make money. Worryingly, it has emerged in the UK that there are some national newspaper journalists who are using rather unscrupulous methods to get links for cash.
Daniel McSkelly alleges a search marketer told him they had given a journalist £15,000 ($22,000) in return for links.
In his article McSkelly says: “I think it’s interesting that some UK journos are getting wise to the commercial value of links, though it will worry anyone who cares about the integrity of the press that these deals are being done under the table. The resulting links are embedded into editorial copy with no hint that the link is there for commercial gain. In traditional media this kind of deal would strictly appear as ‘advertorial’ or a ‘sponsored feature’ which is the way it has to be unless we’re to lose faith in our press entirely.”
This claim from McSkelly makes me feel incredibly uneasy. To think that journalists or editors are now going down this road – and in a way that isn’t transparent to the reader – is frankly, morally wrong. It should be said there’s no way of knowing how widespread this practice is or if it’s a rogue journalist trying to top up their salary, but I’d hope the majority of professional writers and editors would see the problems of accepting links for cash. How can a journalist be critical of a company or investigate the operations of an organisation when they are accepting money from that same company for links?
The business model for online content needs to change but it should be done in a way that is open and honest. The trust between a journalist and their readers is vital to maintain a loyal readership. Break that trust and that reader will quickly move on to another news outlet (and there are millions to choose from).
There’s a dilemma here for readers to consider. Would you rather read a news story online after paying for it or after subscribing for it, or as a reader would you feel comfortable reading a story that has hidden links in the copy which the editor has received money for?
Rachelle Money is a freelance journalist based in Scotland, UK. She graduated from the Scottish School of Journalism in 2005 where she was awarded an internship with two national publications – The Sunday Herald newspaper and The Big Issue magazine. Rachelle has been working with Wordtracker since August 2007 and is a regular contributor to the newsletter.
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