Here is a little tip I picked up while doing some research
into web site development and promotion. It is a simple but
very effective way to get a web page listed in Google within
just a few hours or less.
Search engine submission programs are about as obsolete as
the keystroke typewriter. Traditional submission programs are
no longer really necessary and do not guarantee inclusion into
Google. These days most web pages are found and indexed automatically,
when one of Google’s greedy little spiders crawl the
web looking for fresh new content to devour. Once the Google
spider crawls your web site, instantly it is listed into Google
according to the rank it gives you and the way in which your
pages have been keyword optimized.
The way you can call one of the little information starved
Google spiders to come to dinner is to do a search using the
Google Toolbar. This will require that you first download and
install the Google toolbar. To download the Google Toolbar
go to
http://toolbar.google.com/.
(To learn all more about the various functions of the Google
Toolbar go to:
http://toolbar.google.com/help.html
How It Works:
After you've downloaded and installed the Google Toolbar,
notice the green PageRank strip just above the Google logo.
Now rest your mouse cursor on top of the PageRank strip and
a text box will appear showing the PageRank number of the
site you are on. It shows a PR of between 0 and 10. Very
few sites if any have a PageRank of 10. What you eventually
want is a 4/10 or above.
To get your web pages quickly indexed or listed into Google
and Yahoo, enter the index page URL of your site into the
Google Search box. Next, click the Search Web button next
to it, and Google will begin searching for your URL.
This action will instantly call the Google Spiders to come
search your web pages and immediately your site will get
listed into Google... that's it!
YOU ARE NOW INDEXED IN GOOGLE!
You will know when the #1 page (the index page) to your site
has been indexed when you look at the Google Toolbar Page
Rank indicator. There you will find the bar color is "White".
This indicates Google has you indexed. This does not mean
you can instantly do a search in Google for your site and
see it listed, though. It means your web site has been indexed
and is waiting in the queue to appear.
NOTE #1: For reasons unknown to anyone, sometimes your page
may not get index for several hours, several days or weeks.
Some index within one or two hours. However, you must be
patient if your pages do not show they've been indexed.
NOTE #2: At the start, you will not have a Page Rank worth
mentioning. That will come from getting inbound links from
other sites, among other things. That is a topic for discussion
in another article.
This little trick works like a charm. Within about twenty-four
hours of my setting up a new site, I was able to see in my
statistics that the Google crawler had been there several
times. Give it a shot!
John Forman has been developing and promoting web sites covering
an array of businesses, organizations, topics, and functions
for several years. To see some of the resources and tricks
he's picked up along the way, check out the page he's set up
to share them
here.
