Okay, so what do you need to do to get indexed in Google quickly? This is probably a million dollar question and no one seems to answer it with a strong confidence! I have read posts about getting your blogs indexed in Google quickly but they always conclude saying that their prescribed methods might or might not work. Yes, search engines are very mysterious. You can hardly assume when you’ll get indexed, when you’ll be dropped off the index, when you get a higher rank and when you fall down. 🙂 We’re supposed to get used to this nature of the big players on the web.
Though there’s no proven formula to get your sites to rank well in search engines, there are some generally accepted principles, some theories to which most people agree, some qualities most search engines are believed to value. You will need a professional SEO services company to back you up, as without their help, it will be challenging to make it to the top of search engines. You need to have quality contents. You have to free of any malware or bad neighborhood. That is you can not host any malicious stuff, at the same time you can not link to sites which have those types of items. Search engines put much emphasis on incoming links. If you have many link backs, you’re supposed to get a good position. But the rank of those sites also matter. If you get a back link from a well ranked site, that is meant to add more value than a generic back link. Search engines love “static” URLs (eg. http://example.com/why-i-love-her.html) rather than dynamic URLs (eg. http://example.org/index.php?id=37). Another important thing is search engines appreciate the HTTP headers. Since the crawler bots don’t have eyes to view your fancy, flashy sites, they depend much on the “text-only” contents.
In a previous post of mine, I have discussed how you can forward your existing page rank to your new domain. Yes, I did that in my case. https://masnun.com had Google Page Rank 3. When I made a move to the new masnun.me domain, the first thing I did was to put a “HTTP 301 Moved Permanently” header in my previous domain. Then I went to my Google Web Master Central and set the crawl rate for my domain very high.
Then I logged into the dashboard of my new domain and changed the permalink structure. I appended “.html” after the blog post URLs. Then I created a Google Analytics account and added that. I made a few tweets and shared the link on facebook. After that, I added a few URLs to Digg and StumbleUpon.
I can see that my efforts have yielded some results 😀 My both URLs are now indexed on Google. I hope Google will gradually drop the masnun.com one and put full focus on masnun.me. Today I have started adding my site to Yahoo! and Bing. I have also suggested the site to dmoz.org which is a very high ranked directory and major search engines usually value the sites listed in there.
Update: What I need to do now is to make some posts regularly so Google and other search engines know that this site is frequently updated. If you’re into SEO, please share your experience along with valuable tips and tricks 🙂