How Do You Get Your Sites / Pages Indexed in Google?

Posted on 24 March 2010 by Suzanne

I put up a lot of sites and blogs for my businesses and I’ve never had a problem getting a site indexed with Google very quickly – until now. I put up a blog / site last week and it’s still not indexed … so I thought I’d share what I usually use and put it out there to my readers too to see what all of you do to get your sites indexed quickly.

I usually don’t need to do anything more than use a social bookmarking site and I usually use Mister Wong first and sometimes I use a few more as well.

I will also sometimes add a link from one of my other existing sites that I know gets spidered often.

I might add some links back from a Squidoo lense … use some article marketing … use my 30 Minute Backlinks method … submit the site to some directories … but truthfully I don’t usually need to do more than add to Mister Wong to get indexed and I use the other methods for more backlinks.

The only thing I can think of that I haven’t done so far is add a site map to the blog so that’s my next step.

I’m waiting a day or two because Austin (my 14 year old son) once read in an eBook to go to the first sample post (the Hello World post that comes standard on WordPress) and edit it to say the word “Google” with a link to Google.com. Hmmm … not sure about this one but he’s asked me to wait a day or two to see if it works or not. LOL

So … what do you do to get your site indexed? How long does it usually take? Share any ideas you have so we can all learn from each other OK? *SmiLes* Suzanne

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Avoid Duplicate Content by Using the Canonical Link Element

Posted on 26 February 2009 by Suzanne

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Avoid Duplicate Content by Using the Canonical Link Element

I wanted to share a great video by Matt Cutts that is posted on the GoogleWebmasterHelp YouTube channel.

The canonical link element is lack of a better word a new “meta tag” that will help you avoid duplicate content on your site.

This video addresses the solution to the problem of having so many different URLs on your own site for the same page. One example he used is that Google sees all of these as different pages:

www.example.com

example.com

www.example.com/

example.com/

www.example.com/index.html

example.com/index.html

www.example.com/home.asp

example.com/home.asp

It’s almost certain that these pages all have the exact same content. As you can imagine if these are “viewed” by Google as different pages they will produce duplicate content on your site.

This is especially confusing when your backlinks point to a combination of these 8 different URLs instead of just one of them. The best way to head this off is to fix these problems before they arise. Matt says we need to “standardize” or “normalize” our URLs from the start so that there’s only one way to get to your content. One way to do this is by getting into the habit of choosing one URL and using it for all of your backlinks and for all of your internal linking (you should also always choose absolute URLs instead of relative URLs).

You will also want to go into your Google Webmaster Tools and set this chosen URL your preferred domain or preferred URL.

Google also considers the URLs submitted in the sitemap you submit. If they see one URL submitted that’s on the sitemap and one that’s not they will “prefer” the URL on the sitemap.

You can use a permanent 301 redirect for each of the other versions of the URL to the preferred URL. But there are instances where you don’t have access to do so (i.e. free hosting or anywhere you don’t run the web server, and of course you can’t help how other people link to you).

This video addresses some other issues that you’ll want to be aware of and it also give you the code you’ll want to use to for your canonical link elements and tells you where to place the code.

So check it out and leave your comments below. Have you ever heard of the canonical link element? Do you think you might have some duplicate content issues? Let us hear from you in the comments section. *SmiLes* Suzanne

P.S. A special note in the video for WordPress bloggers … he mentioned there will most likely be some new plugins to address this or possibly even have it written in to the next WP update version.

 

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Domain Name Registration Length and Your Google Page Rank

Posted on 29 September 2008 by Suzanne

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Domain Name Registration Length

and Your Google Page Rank

Does your domain name registration length really help boost your Google page rank? I suppose no one knows for sure but from what I’ve been told by GoDaddy, and from the research I’ve done on the subject, it seems to matter. I personally figure … what the heck?! When it comes to the coveted matter of PAGE RANK … I’ll give it a shot … won’t you?

According to a patent Google was awarded, “Certain signals may be used to distinguish between illegitimate and legitimate domains. For example, domains can be renewed up to a period of 10 years. Valuable (legitimate) domains are often paid for several years in advance, while doorway (illegitimate) domains rarely are used for more than a year. Therefore, the date when a domain expires in the future can be used as a factor in predicting the legitimacy of a domain and, thus, the documents associated therewith.” I read this to mean that they do care about the quality of websites and will make an effort to determine whether or not each is a “legitimate” (or valuable) site or not … that domain registration length is a considered factor.

I often hear internet marketers talking about only registering their domain names for 1 year at a time and that way if they aren’t making enough profit they can dump the site and move on. Well, it seems to me that’s exactly why Google takes domain name registration length into account (as well as, the registration date – how far back you’ve had it registered). I’m sure you’d agree that this longevity shows a commitment to the domain name … giving it perceived “stability.” You don’t want to be erroneously perceived as a short-term or temporary spam site do you? 

In my recent post, “15 Things You Should Do to Help Google Do Their Job,” I listed domain name registration length, as well as, how long the domain name has been registered to the current owner as factors for your page rank. I had someone email me saying that they thought that was a “bunch of crap” and asking where on earth I came up with these notions.

Well, let me explain. When I spoke with a GoDaddy representative a few months back he noticed that one of the domain names I was reregistering was my name. He asked me if I’d like to register that domain for 5 or 10 years so I could improve my page rank. My reply, “What are you talking about?” He explained that I would be awarded “extra points” towards my page rank if I registered out for 5 or 10 years (he even gave me a break down of the points and I’ll dig out my notes and report back with them). I remember thinking, “How the heck could GoDaddy (or this guy) possibly know that?” 

Well, I went ahead and registered this domain, www.suzannefranco.com, for 5 years and on the very next round of page rank updates I went from a PR1 to a PR3! Of course I have no idea how much (if any) the domain registration length played a part in this jump … but it sure seems coincidental to me.

I’ve also read that Google indexes the public domain records from WhoIs and “uses” this information when determining page rank. When I was researching what was involved with purchasing an existing website I remember reading that the page rank might drop when you reregistered the domain into your name. If that’s true (who really knows) it seems that they do also take into account how long the domain has been registered to its current owner.

I wish I knew whether or not these factors were indeed considered in page rank. I’m going to go ahead and do a 5 year renewal on the domain for another blog of mine. It currently has a PR1 and I’ll report back with the results after the next update (rumor has it I just missed that opportunity and that we’re going through an update right now – can anyone confirm this?). 

What about you … how long do you register your domain names? If you have several domains do you find yourself treating some differently than others when it comes to the cost commitment of domain registration? Have you ever seen a jump in page rank after renewing a domain for a 5 or 10 year period? Please share your thoughts so we can all learn. *Smiles* Suzanne 

P.S. To the jerk who sent me the rude email … you mentioned that your blog was a PR1 and that you highly doubt renewing your domain name for 5 years would have an impact … did you spring for the $35 bucks out of curiosity? If it helped … you’re welcome and I’ll be happy to accept your apology! LOL.

P.S.S. I’m curious … if you truly believed in your position why didn’t you post here publically instead of sending me a nasty email privately? Things that make you go hmmmmmm …

Head over to GoDaddy NOW

and extend your domain name registration for 5 or 10 years
and see how you do this next update!

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30 Minute Backlinks ~ On Sale for Only 48 Hours!

Posted on 24 September 2008 by Suzanne

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30 Minute Backlinks ~ On Sale for Only 48 Hours!

Well … if you’ve been on the fence about purchasing Michelle MacPhearson’s 30 Minute Backlinks … NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY! She’s running a 48 hour special … or 100 copies … which ever comes first. She has lowered the price by about 30% … to only $67! It’s an awesome deal so go get it right now!

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If you aren’t familiar with this ingenious system for getting hundreds of high PR backlinks to your site go read my review post and see why you really owe it to yourself to use this method to rise in the ranks with Google.

30 Minute Backlinks ~ Hot or Not?

 Have question? Do you own 30 Minute Backlinks? Do you give it a raving review? Let’s hear from you so we can all learn from each other. *SmiLes* Suzanne

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15 Things You Should Do to Help Google Do Their Job! Google Ranking Factors

Posted on 22 September 2008 by Suzanne

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Google Ranking Factors

15 Things You Should Do to Help

Google Do Their Job!

What is Google’s job? In essence, Google’s job is to give their search visitors the most relevant webpage for their search query.

So how do they decide which page is the most relevant? Well, no one knows the exact formula but if you know some of the things they are looking for you might be able to convince them that your webpage is the most relevant page for the keyword phrase that you’ve chosen.

Truthfully, I’m no expert, but from what I’ve read and studied here are some of the criteria that seem to matter: 

  1. Keyword phrase in the domain name.
  2. Domain name extension (.gov, .edu, .org, .com, .net, .info, etc.)
  3. Keyword phrase in the URL (using keyword in the page/file extension).
  4. Keyword phrase as (or in) title tag (some say it’s the most important factor).
  5. Keyword phrase as the h1 meta tag (and relevant words in h2, h3, etc.).
  6. Keyword phrase in the meta description.
  7. Keyword phrase in the keyword meta tag.
  8. Amount, nature, and freshness of page content.
  9. Keyword use in the content (keyword density).
  10. Use of keyword phrase throughout page (meta tags, content, navigation, alt tags, etc.)
  11. Latent semantic indexing – the use of words that are often used in the same context (i.e. car and automobile) throughout the tags and the page.
  12. How long the domain name has been registered to the current owner.
  13. How far out the domain name is reserved for into the future (5 plus years is best).
  14.  Inbound links (aka “backlinks”) … considers the number of links, the quality (preferably from high-ranking sites), links from the same or related theme, etc.  
  15. Outbound links to other authority sites pertaining to the keyword phrase.

Well, that’s a start to what you can do to help Google do their job … please use the comments section to let us know what you think Google wants to see to decide which page is most relevant for a keyword phrase. Let’s grow this list so we can all learn from it. *SmiLes* Suzanne

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Why You Should Be Using Social Bookmarking Sites

Posted on 11 September 2008 by Suzanne

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Why Use Social Bookmarking Sites?

Using do-follow social bookmarking websites to bookmark your sites and/or pages on your site will create important backlinks … and you can really build up a lot of great backlinks over time. I tend to check the page rank for the sites so I know which ones are the most important to use … but using as many do-follow sites as possible is the best idea.

To make sure you take advantage of the do-follow benefits make sure you mark all of the bookmarks to your sites as “public.” That way Google can “follow” the link to your site and give you credit for the backlink.

Do this every time you have new content or posts and you will have some really great “high PR” backlinks before you know it … and Google seems to be really impressed with backlinks these days … so be sure you make the time for it!

Also be sure you read “What is Social Bookmarking” and “30 Do Follow Social Bookmarking Sites”

Do you use social bookmarking sites to build backlinks? Which sites do you use? Have you been able to confirm the credit for these links? Be sure and ask any questions you have and I’d love to hear from you in the comments section … that way we can all learn from each other. *SmiLes* Suzanne

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30 Do-Follow Social Bookmarking Sites

Posted on 11 September 2008 by Suzanne

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30 Do-Follow Social Bookmarking Sites

Listed by PR (Google PageRank):

Furl.net (7)

Mister-wong.com (7)

Blinklist.com (7)

Backflip.com (7)

Spurl.net (6)

JumpTags.com (6)

BibSonomy (6)

LinkaGoGo (6)

MyLinkVault (5)

Bookmark Tracker (5)

Folked (5)

Connectedy (5)

SpotBack (5)

MyVmarks (5)

A1 Webmarks (4)

OYAX (4)

TeDigo (4)

MyPIP (3)

Totagit (2)

Yattle (2)

Feedmarker (1)

Buzztagz (0)

YouTagz (0)

Socialblink (0)

WigleyTagz (0)

SyncOne (0)

Space-Ed (0)

Info4It (0)

i89 (0)

Chipmark (0)

You should also read “What is Social Bookmarking” and “Why Use Social Bookmarking Websites”

Are you registered on any of these sites? Do you submit your own sites and articles and posts to them? Do you know the importance of using these sites for backlinks? Be sure to look me up and we can be “friends” (wahmsuzanne) … Post your questions and comments here so we can all learn from each other. *SmiLes* Suzanne

September 30, 2008

*Additions:

My friend JR has posted a couple more Do-Follow bookmarking sites on her Internet Marketing Strategies blog:

http://www.dizzed.com (3)

http://www.wagg.it (3)

And thank you to Oopza for letting us know about their site too:

http://www.Oopza.com (2)

Let’s keep this list growing!

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What is Social Bookmarking?

Posted on 11 September 2008 by Suzanne

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What is Social Bookmarking?

According to Wikipedia:

“Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata.

In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

Most social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags instead of the traditional browser-based system of folders, although some services feature categories/folders or a combination of folders and tags. They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking services also draw inferences from the relationship of tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks.

Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.

As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or other social network features.”

So, in other words (in my words) social bookmarking is like adding “Favorites” using your browser … but when you use a social bookmarking website to do so you can access your bookmarks from any computers, you can keep them private or share them with friends or with the world, and you can also get valuable backlinks to your own sites by using them.

Here’s a list of “Do Follow Bookmarking Sites” and a post on “Why You Should Use Social Bookmarking Websites”

Do you use social bookmarking sites? Do you use them for organizing your favorites or just for backlink purposes? Do you have any questions about social bookmarking websites? What are your favorites? I’d love to hear from you in the comments section. *SmiLes* Suzanne

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30 Minute Backlinks – Hot or Not?

Posted on 09 September 2008 by Suzanne

If you’ve followed me or my sites for any amount of time you’ll know I can’t stand hype … and I really detest internet scams of any kind. Well, when I first heard about Michelle MacPhearson’s product, 30 Minute Backlinks, I was skeptical to say the least.

She offers a step-by-step professional training tutorial that thoroughly explains a method of getting hundreds (or even thousands if you’d like) of one-way links to your site from software directories (some as high as 5, 6 or even 7 PR) which will give you valuable inbound links to your site.

Just so you understand, your site’s search engine rank is based on the number and quality of sites that link to you … and this method is nothing short of ingenious (wish I had thought of it actually LOL … WTG Michelle!).

Her training tutorials walk you through the process step-by-step … even a complete beginner could do this. If you’re fairly internet savvy and you think you’ll take the idea and run with it … go for it. I will warn you though … you might understand the concept (like I did) … but remember … you’ve been warned … you’re going to wish you had her simple blueprint guide to walk you through the set up and duplication process (ask me how I know this … doh!). I will admit the product is worth the investment … every penny actually! 

I’ve done a lot of snooping and I can’t find a single bad thing being said about Michelle’s product (just raving reviews) … and if you’re not completely satisfied … she even offers a 100% money back guarantee.

Go right now and watch her video explanation … it’s worth your time I promise!

Truthfully, there are only 2 reasons why you wouldn’t buy 30 Minute Backlinks immediately … you simply can’t afford it … or you just don’t understand what this will do for your site in the search engines! Clearly, this product has my full endorsement … It’s HOT!

Have you tried 30 Minute Backlinks? What were your results? Do you have any other unique ideas for building backlinks? Do you have any questions about why backlinks are so important? I’d love to hear from you … and remember you questions and responses help a lot of others too. *SmiLes* Suzanne 

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Making the Most of Outbound Links

Posted on 07 July 2008 by Suzanne

Outbound links? You read that right … you know … the links you put on your site or blog to other people’s sites. I don’t know about you but I believe in doing the “right” thing whenever possible … and in karma! LOL

I’m going to share what I’ve learned about outbound links and hopefully it will change the way you link to others … and maybe how they will link to you too.

Linking to someone else’s site is a great way to share other sites with your readers. If you are telling others about someone’s site it’s best to make an actual hyperlink to their site whenever possible (as opposed to just mentioning the site).

If you’re going to take the steps necessary to link to someone it’s even better to take the next step and learn about the effective use of anchor text. The anchor text is the word or phrase you use that will actually link over to the other person’s site. The reason this matters is that Google (search engines) looks at the word or phrase you use as an indicator of what the site is about.  

For this blog you could link to http://www.suzannefranco.com and that would take your readers to my blog easily. If you wanted to help me out with the search engines you would use words instead of my URL.

So, now that you know what you should do let’s look at how to figure out the best words to use for the anchor text. If you know the person (and you have time) just ask them. You could say, “Hey, Suzanne I’m doing a blog post and I’ll be linking to you. What is the best anchor text to use?”

Another way is to go to the site and take a look the page title (meta title – not headlines). This can be found up in the very top left corner of the browser window. If the site owner has optimized their site there will be a key word phrase there. If you go to my blog you will see that my page title is “Money Making Ideas.” That would tell you that is one of the key word phrases that the blog is optimized for.

If you see something like “Home” … or even just the name of the blog or site you might go one step further and take a quick look at their meta key words and their meta description. While you are on their main page you will go up to your tool bar to the ”Page” and then to ”View Source.”  This will open up the code for that page in NotePad for you. You should be able to get some good ideas there.

If you are not in the habit of linking to others it’s a good time to start. Not only is it valuable for your readers it’s also good for your own status with Google. It’s rumored that Google takes in to account the number of outbound links when determining your page rank.

I personally like to be helpful to others … it’s just in my nature … even if it means a little extra work. I will also say that this method has “paid off” for me as far as my sites go too. I’ve had people see my sites and/or blogs in their traffic stats and when they go to check out my site and see that I “properly” linked to them it usually results in some type of business friendship that flourishes.

I love hearing from you so please comment below and let me know if this was helpful and/or if you have any other strategies that would help others with outbound linking. *SmiLes* Suzanne

 

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