Get Your Blog Indexed Quickly

"How can I get my blog indexed quickly." It's an ever recurring question in the forums

Or

"I have submitted my blog to the search engines and it's still not indexed"

Another frequent thread in the search engines

So I thought I'd write this post on how you can get your blog indexed quickly in the search engines, specifically Google

I know that Google and Yahoo have a site submission service where you go and submit your URL to them and they eventually get round to crawling and perhaps indexing your blog. Like I said eventually.

But blogging is a business. And we all know time off the search engines is money lost.

So how can you get your blogs indexed faster.

The long and short of it is you have to let the search engines find your blog. The bots crawl millions of sites and follow links from sites already indexed to new sites that are not in the index.

These links do not need to be do follow. Google bots crawl no follow links as well. They just don't give them any SEO relevance.

Problem is how do you find frequently updated websites and how do you get a link to your blog on these sites?

Social Bookmarking Sites

Social bookmarking sites have frequently updated content and the more popular ones are frequently crawled by the search engine bots. Sites like Delicious and Digg. So the links are no follow. But very useful for getting your blog indexed.

RSS Feeds

Your blog has an RSS feed which you use to syndicate your content online. Some of the RSS feed directories are very popular and therefore have frequently updated content. Frequently updated content usually attracts the search engine bots. So if you submit your blog's RSS feeds to the feed directories, it gives another portal of entry to your blog for the search engine bots.

Sitestats Websites

Sitestats websites are sites that give information about other websites. When you query a website with them they give you information about the site like value, traffic, PR, Alexa ranking, etc. Information that may help in competition analysis or just to assess how your website or blog is doing. The problem with these sitestats is you can never find any two that agree on the value of any website. But there is one use of these sitestats. When a website or blog is queried, they create a webpage with details of the website or blog queried. This page has a backlink to the blog or website. The backlink is usually no follow but what you want is any link that can be crawled by the search enige bot. Some frequently crawled sitestats websites are websiteoutlook [one of the most popular], mysiteworth, websitemark.net etc

Forums

There are forums online that are very active. They are easy to find using Omgili.com or bigboards.com. Register with a bunch of these forums. Have a link to your blog in your signature and participate actively in the forums. Everytime you add a post on the forum, your signature is attached. That's a crawlable link. Please make sure your comments are relevant to the topic being discussed or your account will be banned.


Sitemap.
This is another great way to point the Google bots in the right direction. Create a sitemap for your blog and submit it to Google via the Google webmaster tools account.

With the above methods your blog will be indexed in a very short time.

The main theme is do not go to the search engines. rather let the search engines come to you
Submit a sitemap to Google via webmaster tools