Fast Indexing
November 6, 2008
How Fast Can You Get Indexed?
I’ve been experimenting with a number of traffic generation techniques recently, but one thing that almost always helps is being indexed in the search engines.
Of course you might have an army of people willing to send traffic to your site, even if not a single page appears in the search engines, but for most of us there is a need to be indexed. Besides, organic search engine traffic is free - which is nice.
There are various theories about how to get indexed quickly, as well as weird and wonderful schemes that may or may not be white hat, black hat, or no hat at all.
One such technique is to get a link from a well-spidered site. Usually that means a site with some PR already. Great if you know how to get such links, but for beginners it’s not always easy and in some cases it costs money.
But don’t overlook your own sites. I have sites ranging in PR from 5 down to 0 and some of them took well over a year to get their reasonable PR. Others did it more quickly. Unique content and an aggresive link building campaign in directories, article directories and the like can all make a difference - but not immediately.
As a test I recently registered a new domain, set up the hosting and uploaded a few pages to the site. Brand new domain. I then wrote an article on one of my blogs and had a single link in the article pointing to the new site. The blog I used is only a PR 3, but that should be enough to get spidered very regularly. Every day, according to some people (and my server logs!).
How long did it take the new site to get spidered? Well, just less than 2 hours. And here’s what was amazing: that new site was also indexed in that time. Only a single page was indexed, but that’s started the ball rolling.
Easy for me, you might think, since I have some reasonable PR sites to work with. But there’s nothing stopping anyone from building 1 site into something with a bit of juice to it. If you keep adding content to 1 site and submit articles and to directories you’ll get some PR. Once you have PR on that site you can place a link there to get new sites noticed - and indexed.
In my case I’ve used it for one of my own new sites. But there’s nothing to stop me offering the service to others. I’d probably need a little more proof than a single test, but I’m sure there are people who would pay well for such a link. After all, until you’re indexed you don’t exist for the vast majority of the world’s internet users.
So if you have a site that’s beginning to get some PR in Google why not leverage that for the benefit of your other sites? Don’t go mad - don’t try adding 434 links all at once to a single site!
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