An SEO Guide To Getting Indexed
June 30th, 2008 by Nick
SEO projects work in a number of stages. One of the first stages, after research and development, is getting a website indexed. The search engines need to learn that your pages are online and that they are ready to be placed in the search engine result pages. Initially, they will not perform that well, especially for your most competitive terms but getting indexed is vital. Similarly, it is an early SEO goal to ensure that all of your pages are indexed and not just the main page.
Early Stage SEO – Site Wide Indexing
Site wide indexing is achieved through good navigation. Regardless of the type of navigation you use, whether it be text based or flash based for instance, it is beneficial to offer a sitemap. Sitemaps are used by human visitors and can be offered as a means for search engine spiders to effectively access and index every single page of a site. Use an HTML or XML sitemap and place a text link from the home page of your site.
Updating The Search Engines Of Any Changes
Once a sitemap has been created you can use this to help get your site indexed. The search engines all offer a method of submitting a sitemap to them. On doing so, they will then submit a spider to each of the pages you have detailed in the sitemap. When you update your site and subsequently the sitemap (the best sitemap will automatically update to include changes), you can then inform the search engines of these changes and they will again index your entire site.
Leverage Your Existing Network
Another method of getting a site indexed is through the acquisition of an external link to your website. If you own or manage a network of websites on the same or similar topics and one or more are crawled frequently, then add a link in a relevant place on that site. When the spiders next crawl your established website they will instinctively follow the link to your new site and index and rank the pages they find. A lot of network owners leverage their existing network to improve their SEO efforts and this is just one way that they do so.
Article Marketing
Article marketing can be used throughout a search engine optimisation campaign in order to help build inbound links. Article directories are updated frequently and, as such, they are also crawled and indexed very regularly. This means that starting an SEO campaign by submitting an article to a number of directories can help to quickly get a site indexed by the major search engines. It will also start to build your SEO link profile.
SEO And Indexing
One of the first and most important steps in SEO is ensuring that every page of your site is indexed by the search engines. Naturally, some search engines are slower at doing so than others, but all need a push in the right direction in order to even recognise that your site exists. Creating and submitting a sitemap offers you the opportunity to be indexed and can be used throughout your SEO campaign to update the search engines with any changes. Gaining a link from other sites is also another method and, again, one that you will need to continue using throughout your search engine optimisation.
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Thank you for this interesting article.
As I understand the way Indexing works, if a web-page has not been up-dated for some time say 12 months the Google (eg) indexing crawler will increase the delay between visits from say every 3 months to every 4,5 6 etc months. In other words, if there are no changes on a web-page the Indexer will assume that the web-page is obsolete, uncared for and therefore defunct.
Assuming that I have correctly understood that aspect of the Indexing process may I ask this question.
What is the best way of quickly getting the Indexing Spider to notice web-pages which have been left unchaged for over 12 months?
I am struck by your comment about the network idea.
Thank you for this interesting and useful article.
Kind regards,
Bryan Dunne
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Many people spend countless hours submitting websites to Google and other search engines. But postings in related forums and leaving URL in signature, makes your chance of getting indexed more quickly.
Search engine always loves fresh and natural content. Therefore, to make your site’s most pages indexed by search engines, you need to keep updated your site with fresh and natural contents frequently.
Sitemap is very important to get indexed by search engines and your sitemap must be automatically or regularly updated with the site.
I do agree with the above post but they forgot about URL. URL of site should be natural, meaningful to human and search engine also. It would help to index fast.
Every kind of search engines have different algorithm to index a site. It may be fast or slow algorithm. So, just keep working naturally because there is no one fixed formula which can tell you how to get indexed quickly.
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