A question that pops up every now and again from people is “what’s the best way to get my new indexed in the search engines?“. There is no magic formula, no snake oil or special product necessary. All you need to do is take at least 1 of the steps highlighted below.
- Get a good inbound link into your site. Use your existing sites (if you have one) or beg, borrow or ask a friend. If you are nice maybe I would help you out. Remember search engines won’t find your site easily if it’s not linked. They need way of discovering your website. Thankfully there is a 2nd way, where you can tell them directly that you have a new site (see next option).
- Take advantage of the the Free FluffyLinkUlator, which has details about the submission pages for the search engines (google & yahoo!) and for DMOZ.org (a respected directory).
submit to the search engines
And for people thinking of paying someone a few hundred €’s for links from directories, don’t bother. For a fraction of the price you can submit to thousands of them yourself with Louie’s Directory Submission Service. Personally I am not the greatest fan of investing silly amounts of time generating these types of links, due to the limited benefit they bring. But for a new website, it can be an easy way to start to get some inbound links, and start to receive some traffic.
Next Steps
Once you have done this, and your site is appearing on Google/Yahoo ! it’s time to organise a sitemap, get access to their webmaster consoles to see check your site’s status. More on that anothertime !
9.16.2008
[...] Cormac Moylan’s announcement that Omniserve has a competitor for their Google Rapid Inclusion Tool caught my eye. I’ve been following Omniserve’s claims on how they get their clients into Google with particular interest so I wasn’t surprised to see someone launch FluffyLinkulator. If I can get the time I’ll probably do a full post on Omniserve’s Google Rapid Inclusion Tool and better ways on how to get a new site into search engines. [...]
9.17.2008
I did a post similar to this a while back, one thing I’ve found personally that new site’s can benefit from even appearing in Digg’s index, as this can give quicker visibility in the SERPs, especially for “domain.com” searches when you are in the sandbox.
9.17.2008
Thanks for your comment Paul !
Digg can be a great tool , if used right, to make a completely new website will appear in the rankings. There are other ways of course, but this is something that anyone with a simple Digg account can do.
Now I don’t recommend you submit your homepage to digg, rather if you have an interesting article or survey, something that diggers would actually like, it’s worth submitting it.
P
10.22.2008
Hi Paul
Thanks for that, more please.
When using digg for this purpose do you recommend linking to articles within your site written specifically for digg or can existing articles which are linked from many places as good?
Thanks
John
10.22.2008
@John : thanks for your comment. I would write something directed at the DIGG audience. Or consider rewriting some previous article. Something, short, smart and of interest to what is happening now. For you for example if you had a list of the 10 most funniest lines when people asking about backups.
But remeber : Digg can be a double edge sword and can bring down your site if the story reaches the front page.
Paul
1.21.2009
[...] to run a new test on some new domains. Last year I posted about the fact that it is pretty easy to get your domain in googles index, but now recently I have seen some changes. For the sake of clarity I will label them domain A and [...]