Sunday, August 21, 2011
My Blog is not indexing timely l How to get your new blog indexed by Google quickly
How to get your new blog indexed by Google quickly l Google Not Indexing Your Blogs ?
Hi Friends
You would like google to crawl more frequently and index new content more quickly.
In general, googlebot makes its own decision about crawling - it varies enormously from minutes to weeks, depending on how Google see your site.
You should first check that Google can access your site properly; use "Fetch as Googlebot" facility in Webmaster Tools.
Second, check that the time that googlebot has allocated to crawling your site is not wasted;
----- minimize duplicate content;
----- don't allow /tag/ URLs to be indexed;
----- use the robots.txt settings recommended by your blog software provider;
Third, increase the importance/value of your site in Google's eyes:
----- improve the use of English; it is good to have regional variations in the use of English internationally but some very basic errors might be detected as "unnatural".
----- make it better for your visitors so that they spend more time on your site, visit more often, tell friends, and add links from other blogs/sites.
The above are just a few suggestions; there are many more ways to improve the situation.
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Four days ago, I launched a new blog called PHP Snippets.
As you can guess, one of my main goal was to get the site indexed as soon as possible in Google so I can start receiving organic traffic.
So, what did I do to get my new blog indexed by Google in only one day? I just used a few “techniques” that even a novice can use.
Be patient
[tweet]I already said it many times, but in my opinion, patience is one of the essentials qualities of a blogger. Don’t expect a new blog with a freshly registered domain to be able to dominate search engines in a month or two.
To give you an example, www.phpsnippets.info is already indexed in Google, but rankings are bad: As I’m writing these lines, the blog is currently ranked on Google 8th page for the term PHP Snippets. But I can bet that in 3 months, it will be on page 1.
Being patient will not make Google index your blog more quickly, but it will prevent you from frustration, which is in my opinion one of the worst enemies of a blogger.
Use Google webmaster tools and sitemap.xml
Google have a service named Google Webmaster tools, which provides you with detailed reports about your pages visibility on Google.
The first thing to do is to install the free WordPress plugin “XML Sitemaps”, activate it and generate a sitemap. Once done, login to Google Webmaster tools and submit your sitemap. The submitted sitemap will help Google to know about all your web pages.
Note that a sitemap.xml will help Google to index your blog, but it will not enhance your rankings. Also, seems that a page with no incomming links will be ignored by Google, even if the page is in your sitemap.
Get links to your posts
Getting backlinks to your blog is probably one of the most effectives way to get a good ranking in Google results pages. In case of a new blog, backlinks from established sites will definitely help you to get it indexed by Google extremely quickly.
Most people are focusing on building links to their homepage and forget to build links to their posts. It’s a bad thing in my opinion, because most people are searching Google for an information, not for a blog in particular.
Being the first on Google for a generic term such as CSS buttons is indeed very good for your blog. It brings 3000+ unique visitors to CatsWhoCode per month.
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Submit a Complete Sitemap of your Blogger Blog to Google for Better Indexing
Sitemaps, in simple English, are text files (see example) containing a list of all web pages that exist on your site. It is important that you create a comprehensive sitemap as it will help Google and other search engines crawl your site better and that might mean more traffic coming your way in the long run.
The Problem with Blogger Sitemap Files
Ideally, the sitemap file should contain all URLs of a site but if your blog is hosted on blogspot.com (or if you are using a self-hosted version of Blogger with a custom domain), you'll be surprised to know that the default sitemap file (see example) contains only the 26 most recent pages of your blog.
That's a bad thing because some of your older blog pages, that are missing from the system-generated sitemap file, may never get indexed in search engines. There's however a simple solution to fix this problem.
Generate a Complete Sitemap for your Blogger Blog
Step 1: If you haven't done this already, sign-in to your Google Webmasters account and add your blog. For details, check this video tutorial on how to add a blog to Google.
Step 2: Once your blog is added to Google, open the Sitemap Generator and type the full address of your blogspot blog (or your self-hosted Blogger blog).
Step 3: What you get is list of sitemap files that contain each and every page of your blog. You now just have to ping Google, Yahoo and Bing to inform them about these XML sitemaps.
As shown in the video screencast below, you need to manually add each of the sitemap files into your Google Webmaster Tools dashboard but for Bing or Yahoo, you can simply click blue hyperlinks and these search engines will automatically download the relevant sitemap files from your blogspot site.
Once all the Sitemaps are added, your Google Dashboard should look something like this.
If you see a red cross or an orange exclamation symbol instead of the green tick, that means something is wrong with your XML sitemap. Verify that the file exists by typing the sitemap URL in your browser.
Sometimes media enclosures (like MP3 files) in blog posts can create warnings during sitemap submission. And if you have switched from Blogger to WordPress, it still makes sense to submit sitemaps of your old Blogspot blog as that will only help search engines discover your new WordPress pages. Good luck.
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This post was written by: deivam P Mohanraj
deivam P Mohanraj is a professional blogger, web designer and front end web developer. Follow him on Twitter
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