Hey Guys,
We all know how important it is to be indexed in the search engines, after all you spend a good deal of time thinking about what you want to actually put to paper. It stands to reason that you want the rest of the world to know about it too.
However its not always that easy to just get indexed, or even get ranking. Sure once your site is a bit older your blog posts will be indexed before you even hit the publish button (okay maybe not that quickly, but still pretty quick).
I’m going to save you a small amount of research and tell you that a brand new blog can be indexed in under 24 hours with great ease. Possible even less then that. Better still these few tips you can put in place in less than 25 minutes and they will turn your blog into an absolute googlebot magnet.
All methods are free and some involve using a third party service.
1. Install A Google Compliant Sitemap
This is really easy thanks to a plugin called Google Sitemaps Generator
Once you have downloaded this plugin, simply upload it to your wordpress blog, configure it as per the instructions and generate your first sitemap. Even though the plugin will ping Google with your sitemap every time you update your blog (automatically).
Next step is to also sign into Google Webmaster Toolbox and add your blog. Once you have added your blog you will want to verify your blog, then go to sitemaps in the right hand side toolbar and add your wordpress sitemap in.
Simple huh, you never need to worry about this step again, other then maybe updating the plugin from time to time.
2. QUIT’s Tool (Quick Site Indexing Tool)
Created by the guy over at Blue Hat SEO the tool at the bottom of this section was created to use a series of a few different techniques to get your site indexed and crawled very quickly. Guess what? It works, and very quickly too.
Submit your site as often as you like, perhaps once every second post until you are being indexed on a regular basis.
3. Automatic Social Bookmarking - OnlyWire
This is the longest step of all, the above 2 steps should take you only 10 minutes tops. You will want to sign up at Only Wire, it’s free to use.
Then you will need to create an account at all of the social bookmarking services mentioned in the tool. Only Wire then lets you easily enter your blog post details and post to those sites you signed up to, in one quick press off a button.
4. Wordpress Ping List
Log into your wordpress blog admin
Go to Options >> Writing
Scroll to the bottom where you will see “Update Services”
Paste the list below in there.
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
They are the major pinglists, pingomatic covers most of the majors, with the extra ones below it. Make sure you click update.
Thats all there is too it.
Some nice really quick things that you can implement on your site. Of course you can go into it further but I wanted to keep it simple and very time efficient.
All of this can be done in under 25 mins and will ensure your blog will get spidered more often.
Regards
Marc
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Wow right on the money as always. That information is Gold in the pocket. I hope me pockets don’t get to heavy but if they’re full of Gold I can handle it. Thanks Marc. You and Daniel are super helpful and very business savy marketers. I’m printing this out and posting it on my wall. Maybe even tatoo it on my forehead. Well not quite. Greatly appreciated of course.
Joaquin