How to Index a Website in Google Search in 24 Hours [Case Study]

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Having a website today is an essential part of an online presence, and it’s important that your target customers can find your website by your brand name in search engines.

Many businesses have already added blogs to their websites for faster indexing and for more exposure from search engines and social media.

In this article, I’m going to share information which will help you to make your site visible to search engines in no time.

Recently I worked on two websites – one for my client and one for myself.

The challenge with both was to index a website in Google within 24 hours. This is not a simple task, but neither is it an overwhelming one if you pay attention to what I am about to teach you here.

A proper strategy will help you to put your website into search engines within 24 hours – and maybe only in a couple of hours!

You can try the following instructions with any new domain you have purchased, or with any site which you created in the past but which is not getting traffic from search engines.

The first step is to determine whether or not your site is indexed in Google or any other search engines.

Go to Google.com and type site:domain.com  (Replace “domain.com” with your actual domain name, (example: shoutmeloud.com), and check to see whether the site is indexed or not.

If there are no results, it’s time to follow the steps below and get your site into Google. Here is a screenshot for my query:

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What is indexing of a website?

Many of you may not be aware of the meaning of the term indexing. Indexing in SEO refers to search engines keeping a record of your web pages. When working on indexing of our site, we should target all major search engines (Google, Bing, Yandex etc).

Usually when a search engine bot comes onto your site, it starts crawling and, based on “index” and “noindex” meta tags, it adds pages with index tags in that search engine.

This is how you control what pages from your website should be found in the various search engines.

You can watch the video below from 5:27 to learn more about how search engines work:

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Here is a synopsis of the strategy I used to put both my client’s website and mine into the search engines within 24 hours.

Apart from On-page SEO optimization like meta tags, meta descriptions and on-site SEO (noindex, nofollow), I used sitemap to put the websites into search engines in just a few hours.

Before you try to index a new website, make sure you have your content prepared, because you don’t want Google bots to come and crawl your empty homepage!

Make sure you do all of the basic onsite SEO work mentioned above first, and then work on the following steps to get your site indexed fast.

Guide to Indexing a Website in Google Within a Few Hours:

This strategy should work with all websites, as we will be using external sites to send crawlers to our site. The results also depend on how fast Google updates the newly indexed pages.

Note that if you are doing this work for a client, you may wish to research the index status in all countries to check for data replication delays.

Submission to blog networks :

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We talk about blog directories and blog networks as though they were things of the past, but in fact even today networks and directories work.

As in the past, however, you should not submit your blog to every blog network or directory. Instead, submit your blog only to selected blog networks and directories, making sure to avoid link exchange directories!

Sitemap submission :

A sitemap is created to help search engine crawlers to effectively crawl your blog, so make sure you have created a sitemap for your site or your client’s site. If you are using WordPress platform for your website or blog, you can use popular Yoast SEO plugin or any of these sitemap plugins to generate Sitemap file for free.

Next, submit the sitemap to Google/ Bing/ Yahoo/Ask and other popular search engines.

Read:

Comment on other blogs

Since one of the sites in my example was related to a paid job and it had to be completed within a given time-frame, I added almost 30+ comments for on other popular WordPress website.

I did not check for do-follow or nofollow attributes, but I did comment on popular, high traffic blogs. This confirmed that search engine bots will follow the comment links and will land on my blog, and that is exactly what happened.

Popular website stats program :

IMT Website Submitter
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Some of you may not be aware of websites which keep stats of domains or show the price and value of any domain. This is a nice way to get your site indexed, however submitting to multiple stat sites is not easy, so it may require a bit of manual work.

With this tool, all you need to do is to add the link and anchor text, and IMT submitter will submit your site to sites like who.is, “website stats” and other such sites.

Social bookmarking submission :

This is another very effective method, though somehow within four hours my website was in the search engines despite the fact that I did not seek social bookmarking submissions.

If you wish to do so however, you can start with

  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • Pocket
  • Flipboard
  • Facebook (Public share)
  • Twitter

for faster indexing of your content.

Guest posting:

If your budget is sufficient and you have the necessary time and patience required, prepare 5-10 quality posts and ask your fellow bloggers in your niche for permission to publish your articles on their blogs as a guest author and enjoy the resulting backlinks.

If you are doing this for a client, buy 5-10 quality articles and do the same.

Along with backlinks it will drive some traffic to your blog. Try to guest post on relevant popular, high-ranking pages and on regularly updated websites.

Ping services:

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Ping services offer another effective way to notify search engines of your existence. Pingomatic is one such tool which you can use to notify multiple search engines at once, and another you can try is Pingler.

WordPress does have a default feature to ping services, but giving one of these other options a shot can’t hurt.  If you are using WordPress, you should check out: WordPress ping services & update Ping services from your dashboard (It’s easy).

Here are my results, achieved within four hours:

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The screenshot above is for one of my websites. I simply tried indexing that parked domain site for test purposes, so kindly avoid the meta description shown.

For your website, make sure you add a meta description and all of the other important SEO details, as you don’t want search engines to index useless pages of your site.

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I would love to hear your feedback about this post as well as your thoughts on any other information which might be useful to the topic of indexing websites.

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A Blogger, Author and a speaker! Harsh Agrawal is recognized as a leader in digital marketing and FinTech space. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud, and a Speaker at ASW, Hero Mindmine, Inorbit, IBM, India blockchain summit. Also, an award-winning blogger.

119 thoughts on “How to Index a Website in Google Search in 24 Hours [Case Study]”

  1. Siddanth

    Did all harsh except guest posting and some 2-3 plugins right now need to change theme on the process will be done in 2-3 days Thanks Harsh yaar u always rock 😉

  2. World Richest

    I just did all of this for my new blog…….i want to see how it will turn out. thanks for the post

  3. Mtaram

    I totally agree… I once did an assignment and it took me under 24 hours to get the website listed in top 10 results on Google search. Social websites do help a lot in providing the required exposure to the search engines.

  4. chandan

    Hi Harsh, on the title you have mentioned about website indexing, but on the description you have mentioned informed about blog. I am also working for different projects of client. But I am getting confused how I get relevant link for those different niche websites.

  5. wiredcubes

    MyBlogLog will shut down soon. No point in submitting. Anyways this is a complete post. I followed that problogger post every step and I got indexed in Google for less than 24hrs sure!!!

    For the guest posting and bookmarking are other good additions.

    cubestat and other stats site have high PR hence submitting to them will automatically a great bonus.

  6. loveish

    Great work Harsh. This article is really helpful for all the new bloggers. Next time when I will start a new blog I try these methods for sure so that my blog starts to appear on search engines from the first day. Thanx for sharing this experience 🙂

  7. 100nblogger

    I created this blog yesterday and today it has 4 pages indexed on google.. I used pingler to ping. and commented of few blogs.
    No expertize required to do this. But some times blogspot takes whole one month to get indexed.

  8. TechOfWeb

    Just comment on any high traffic blog or website or you can try any Google forums. that’s it… Posting on Google Forums/google Groups will index your website

    Atul

  9. Jens P. Berget

    This was awesome. I have just launched my new blog, and I was thinking about what to do next, when I saw your post 🙂

    I have experienced that guest posting is one of the most effective ways to get indexed. But first, I’ll have to add my site map to Google.

  10. S.Pradeep Kumar

    Man, really stunning one. I’ll refer this article to my friends, who started blogging. Cheers… 😉

  11. Anish K.S

    Its not a big thing, my two new sites indexed within 2-3 Hours (One got a PR of 2 in 1 month) , but last one takes 2-3 days.

    Its Simple, Activate , ALL In SEO and Google XML Site Map pluggin.

    Use Google webmaster Tools, also Yahoo site explorer.

    All these tips by Harsha is Cool. Its Simple and No cost :).

  12. Tushar

    the first thing i did was to submit sitemap….then i commented and commented and commented….

  13. SEOux

    nice setup, harsh! If it’s necessary to get it index, you can also connect it with tumblr.com and get a blog comment backlink to tumblr.

  14. Basant Singh

    An excellent article. BlogCatalog helped me a lot in initial days. Even Orkut helps me in driving traffic.

  15. Techie Blogger

    Thanks Harsh for such a valuable tips
    Really appreciated

  16. Chethan

    This is Awesome bro… But Indexing Homepage is Nice..
    But Can You tell me How to Index Individual URLs.. I need Tutorial for that bro… My Site is Facing some penalty.. can u pls suggest me few tutorials on “How to Recover from Google penalty/Filter”…

    I will be grateful to u bro

  17. Mad Geek @beingPC

    In most of the posts like this a have seen that most people say that Social Bookmarking helps, but in my case it does not, except for Facebook. I didn’t see any traffic source coming to my blog from any of the social bookmarking sites, but I do get traffic from Orkut and facebook.

    In-spite when I become active in Yahoo Answers my traffics boozes like anything. So what I learned in the 3 month of my blogging experience is Social Networking sites do help but Social Bookmark not as much.

    But I am just 3-4 month old blogger so may be I am wrong. May be after sometime I will get benefit of it.

    1. sudharsan @ technoskillonline

      U r Absolutely right Geek…
      I totally agreed with you

      Social networking sites is best because many people engaging there for sharing their thought with friends than social bookmarking websites….

      If we go for digg, twitter etc., our mutual friends are excepting to retweet and digg the story so you have to concentrate in that also…

      So it’s become easier to find people and making traffic to our blog in social n/w sites….

  18. sudharsan @ technoskillonline

    Im doing all the process that you had said for my website without knowing some of them is a good one for indexing..
    example – pingomatic…

    Technorati claiming of our blog is tooooo late. My blog take about 1 month for verification of claim

  19. Surender Sharma

    Hello Harsh,
    SEO is the main and most important part of any website or blog because without SEO website and blog can’t be visible in the search engine.You are right that feed submission and blog submission work nicely to get PR improvement and also for traffic driver.
    As my opinion your ways are really worthy to get SEO.For bloggers I would like to suggest professional theme like Thesis and some SEO related plugins like ALL in One SEO,XML map,Smart Links etc.Even anchor texts can improve page ranking.
    These efforts should be made to get high volume of traffic,I mean SEO.
    Thanks.

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