Getting Listed in Google

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Getting Listed in Google

Google uses a "crawler or spider" - robots that automatically index pages on the web - called GoogleBot. Google usually takes an average of 6-8 weeks to index a newly submitted site. When you submit your site URL to Google, GoogleBot pick's up and goes through each link on each page. It reads through all your site pages to pick up keywords, then saves and indexes the pages in its catalog cache. Thus it is important for you to keep all your pages linking to each other so that the google spiders have easy access to all your relevant pages. Another way to make sure this is done is to have a Site Map for all you pages.

Very Important: Getting indexed by GoogleBot is just the first step to getting ranked in Google, so don't expect immediate results for your pages to show up in searches. Give it some time and work on optimizing your web pages.

Why is getting listed with Google Important?

Not only is Google the single most important search engine, it is also used to provide the "main results" for various other search engines. As of now (August 2004), AOL Search, Netscape (two of the top 10 search engines) and the Excite Network (at iWon, MyWay, My Web Search) use Google for their main results. Google also provides its "Paid Results Ads" to search engines like HotBot, Lycos, Ask Jeeves and Teoma apart from AOL Search & Netscape.

Google's Page Rank Technology & Getting Ranked in Google

Getting a high ranked in Google is different from being indexed by the Google Spider - GoogleBot. You might have been indexed by Google but your site might be one of hundreds of thousands in connection with your keywords and you might not appear in the first 10 pages (beyond which you can safely assume no one will seriously search).

This is mainly because Google looks at the quality of the web pages linking to each site to obtain the most relevant search results. Thus more than link popularity, link quality is what matters to Google. In fact this is the single best way to get ranked with all "crawler" based search engines. Build your site links by promoting your site pages to as many relevant portals that accept external links - especially those with top ranking in Google. You can also get into link exchanges with top sites in google that have a good ranking (provided you keep a track of these sites in case they do more harm than good). Google gives a different rank for each of your pages so it is important to optimize your whole web site.

You need to also make sure you have valuable content for Google searchers. What you can do is, concentrate on keywords (or rather key phrases) that is unique to your content. This will also ensure that you get more targeted visitors from Google.

Tips on Google Search Engine Optimization for your web site

Build quality links to your site pages from other well ranked sites on Google.

Make sure you provide quality content that have something unique to offer and that have keywords or key phrases people might search to find your site in Google.

Optimize you web site pages by making sure your top keywords appear in your title, meta tags and content.

If you sell products, give something away free (The word "free" is one of the top most searched words on the internet).

Keep a track of your listings/ranking in Google and analyze it periodically. Some google tips on this:

Indexed Pages: To know which pages on your site are listed in the google and to see how they will appear to google searchers type site:www.yourdomainname.extn in the google search box.

Link Popularity: To keep a track of sites that link to you (and also see their google page rank), type link:www.yourdomainname.extn in the google search box.

This page is part of the Smart Webby Website Promotion Guide, a collection of articles, tips, guidelines and resources on how to promote your website and increase your website traffic through search engine optimization (Google, Altavista, Yahoo!, MSN, Gigablast, etc.)

From http://www.smartwebby.com/website_promotion/google.asp

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