Everyone loves to get their web pages indexed by Google as soon as they write them. If you can guide the GoogleBot to crawl your site easily it will index your pages much faster than your expectations.
Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index. When the Googlebot visits your website it detects links on each page and adds them to the list of pages to crawl. If your site has got a very authority your pages will get indexed by Google within few minutes. Below are some useful tips to get your pages indexed by Google effectively.
1. Create and submitting a Sitemap to Google. Even if your site is already indexed in Google submitting a sitemap will give Google a better way to understand about your site. If you are using Wordpress use any of the plugins that can create a sitemap for you.
2. Register for Google Webmasters Tools and check the crawl error page frequently. The crawl errors page provides details about the URLs in your site that Google couldn’t access. So you can fix the errors once you know the problem area.
3. Make sure that the required URL’s are not blocked by robots.txt file or meta tags. If you are not sure about robots.txt file use the Webmasters Tools to create a robots.txt for your website/blog.
4. Search engines cannot understand images and videos. So if your website has good number of images or videos try to provide relevant information about them.
These are just some of the tips which will help you to get your site crawled by Google effectively. If you have any other tips then do share them with us.
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Link building , Social bookmarking websites, Anchor text technique, Blog post roundup
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Excellent Post!
I like the picture which you have posted!
I am Google Bot, I control the earth!
lols
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I’ve been having sitemap error for a whole week and my search engine traffic went down dramatically. Thankfully it’s solved today
Gonna write up a post on it in case other bloggers having the same problem
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Bloggers usually avoid checking sitemap error and Google webmaster tool.. IMO one should make a weekly check of their webmaster tool for any possible error. Will wait for your post Michael.
Good tips
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Nice post Samrat buddy….
And Harsh, your aquamarine based customization looks awesome. Honeytech has done a good job. How much did you pay for it??
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Thanks Ajith I’m glad you like it. Honey and I, share a very good relation apart from blogging. Hope this answered your question
i implement all of them image is really superb….hahah
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Nice post samrat,
Yeah it is very much important to submit a sitemap and also use sitemap generator plugin.
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That’s true Nihar, Sitemap is an essential part of SEO for any blog.
@ Amit Sir,
I am using your All tips. Although I have Installed 2 Sitemaps i.e Dragon Sitemap & Google Sitemap.
Is their any problem if I uses post?
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Great info and tips… i am try to index my site at google SERP. Hope this google webmaster tools can help.