Simon Paul Thurston

Getting a good listing in Google is important for internet marketing as Google is the search engine that refers more traffic than any other search engine. Latest reports show that it accounts for about 60 per cent of search engine traffic. So follow these tips to ensure that your site gets indexed in Google as quickly as possible.

The first thing you have to do is to submit your site to Google through their free ‘submit your site’ form. All you have to do is to submit your home page and Googlebot will do the rest of the work of giving your website a ranking.

However, there is a hitch here; as Google does not add all the URLs that are submitted to their index, there is no guarantee to when and if your site will be indexed at all. The second tip to follow is to link your site to a site that you know Google crawls regularly.

This way, whenever Google re-crawls the website it will find your link. It will then crawl your site and index it too. In fact, Google prefers using this method to find sites to index.

Another important factor is sites that directly link to yours, as this is still held in high regard by Google. Finding sites to link to yours is quite easy and you can start by looking for sites that are linking to your competitors.

You can ask them to link to your site in what is known as a ‘link exchange’, so you may have to offer a link back to their site.

You can also post comments on blogs and forums with a link back to your site. This is a very effective way of obtaining back links to your site – just ensure the content your posting on blogs and forums is relevant and useful and just not a simple attempt to get back links.

This has to be the most effective method of getting your site indexed by Google. Plus, its not technical at all and its not that labour intensive either.

The final tip for getting your site indexed does require a little more work, but not a lot. Google loves fresh, new and unique content. By posting regularly on your blog or by placing articles on your site every couple of days, Google will soon learn that your site is updating regularly with unique information, and Google loves this.

Blogs are a great way to get indexed as by definition they’re made for regular posting of information, but the same can apply for standard sites, even e-commerce site, where you can have featured articles on pages that are behind the main page of your site.

So there you have it, a few simple tips to get your site indexed quickly on the biggest and most important search engine on the planet.