5 things to to to get your blog or website indexed
One of the keys to improving your publicity ‘reach’ online is enabling the search engines to index your site.
the key ones are MSN, Yahoo and Google.
There are some quirks that come up from time to time and I hit one today…. I received an update notification that a blog post linking into my site from a contact I met for lunch in May 2007 had been checked by a search engine spider.
Now that is S….L…..O…..W…. and obviously says a lot about your brand’s online presence and relevance.
And so here are 5 quick things you can do to speed up the linking process:
1 - Get an incoming link from a high-ranked blog
2 - Add Techorati Tags to your blog posts (see below….) This ensures that Technorati is receiving tagging information from your source site and helps it to register your presence on the web
3 - Use feedburner as one of your site feeds (it comes free with most blogging software) And it automatically pings the relevant search engines for your
4 - Check how you are doing regularly - read your own site statistics and see where incoming visitors are arriving from. Your site stats should list the search engines own spider programmes as well as real people
5 - Keep a check on yourself by setting a google alert for your blog name and running a regular Technorati check on your brand (everything in the known universe about….)
By contrast, a post on my rowing blog postd at 9.26 pm on Friday 28 September was indexed and the alert was back in my inbox by Sat 29/09/2007 at 01:04 am. Four Hours.