*Copyrights to Raymond Selda*
Getting indexed in Google and other search engines is one of the critical steps that you need to accomplish first. Take note that this is not the ranking part. Being indexed just means that your web page is already in Google’s database. But if you’ve chosen your keywords properly then there’s a big chance that your web page is already ranked on the top 10 pages or maybe in the first page of Google for your keywords after indexing.
What I’d like to share in this post are the steps that I take to get a brand new WordPress website indexed in Google. I decided to share this because I’m having some consistency in getting a brand new homepage indexed in less than a week and sometimes I can even get indexed in 2-3 days. But I think the reason I’m getting this kind of quick results is because of the low competition for the keywords that I’m targeting. It also helps that the domain I registered contains my main keywords.
There are a lot of ways that you can do this and one of the popular ways is to use some social bookmarking to get indexed quickly. But like I’ve said in my previous posts, I’m not really a fan of using social bookmarking. If you’re interested to learn more indexing techniques then you can just do a simple Google search for “how to get website indexed in google” or whatever term you like.
Let’s Get Indexed!
First thing that I do is go to Settings -> Permalinks and change the permalink option so the URL would be more search engine friendly.
Next, I go to Settings -> Writing then scroll down to the Update Services text box and input a list of pinging services. Here’s the list that I use:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping
http://www.blogoon.net/ping
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogroots.com/tbpopuli.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
After that I then write the first content as post and include the keyword in the first sentence. The keyword will link back to my domain using the main keyword as anchor text.
Now I’m not really sure if this has any effect whatsoever on how Google crawls and indexes your homepage but so far it’s been working out for me. This is some kind of internal linking inside your site and don’t be too concerned if you’re not getting this.
Now after publishing the first content I then install and activate the Google XML Sitemap plugin. After activation, you go to the options and build the sitemap manually.
For the last step, I will install the All In One SEO Pack plugin. Actually you can do this before the sitemap part but I believe you can do this in any order.
And that’s about it. These are the steps that I religiously follow whenever I want a brand new website to be indexed quickly. Don’t sweat it if you can’t get your homepage indexed in a couple of days because you can always do some article marketing to build links. I hope that you’ve found some valuable tips in this post and if you have any questions then feel free to use the comment form below.
