How to Get Your Website Indexed Quickly in the Search Engines

By Zaheer Fazal

It's no secret that the key to making money online is quality targeted traffic. Possibly the most cost effective way to achieve your goals is to obtain this traffic via natural or 'organic' search. Now before, we even attain any rankings, it is crucial to get your site indexed and listed in the search engines. Search engines have an online form which you can fill out to add your URL, however this can generally take weeks if not months. The most effective way is to get indexed via sites that have good authority and those which are indexed on a regular basis. This will allow the crawlers to visit your site quicker. Below are a few of the most popular techniques that are employed;

Article Directories
Because article directories such as EzineArticles have authority in Google's eyes, you will often find that once your article is approved, it tends to get indexed in Google within 24 hours. You can check this by typing site: "your article url". If this is displayed then chances are that Google has indexed your URL as well. It doesn't show up straightaway in some cases but you can almost be certain that the spiders have visited your site, this is assuming you have included the website link in your bio.

Forum Signatures
Signing up to high PageRank credible forums can get you indexed very quickly. Have personally signed up forums and had my URL indexed within 4 minutes, this isn't the norm but you can generally expect to be indexed within 24-48 hours.

RSS Submission
There are plenty of RSS directories where you can submit your XML feed to. This is a great way to get your site content picked up quickly.

Social Bookmarking
Sites such as Digg are loved by Google's crawlers and they tend to live on those pages. Its always a good idea to use social bookmarking as part of your indexing and backlinking strategy.

Web 2.0 Properties
Sites such as Hubpages and Squidoo are another example of credible sites that Google likes, it is also worth submitting your content to these. Not only do they help in getting indexed but can give you some much needed quality backlinks.

Pinging
Once you have submitted your URL to the various properties mentioned above, it is a good idea to 'ping' them. This is just a simple way of letting the search engines know that your site exists and acts as a gentle reminder. Pinging can be quite powerful so it is a good idea not to overdo this as it can get you banned for being a spammer. If you have a WordPress blog, this facility is built in.

Hopefully the above mentioned techniques should help you get indexed quickly in Google and various other search engines as well as give you some inbound links. To your success.

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