The Easy Way to Get Your Website Indexed by Google
By Jinger Jarrett
Google is the number two website on the internet, but it is most popular search engine. No one knows search better than Google. It is also by far the easiest search engine to use to get your website indexed.
Some internet marketing gurus want to make you think that there’’s some big mystery to getting your website indexed on Google. That it’’s a very time consuming process. This isn”t true. What is true is that if you want to rank well, you need to do some preparation first.
Before submitting to Google, you want to make sure that you have optimized your website for the correct keywords. Even if you get indexed by Google, no one will find you because they will be searching using different keywords than the ones you have optimized your website for.
The next step is to make a sitemap. A sitemap is simply a search engine friendly index of all of the page links on your website. This file is written in XML, a format that makes it easy for Google to read.
If you are using a content management script to run your website, and it doesn”t have the ability to generate a sitemap for you, then you will need to do it on your own. Google Webmaster Tools lists dozens of free software and scripts to help you do this. You may also do a search in your favorite search engine for “free sitemap generator.”
Create your sitemap and then upload it to your website using FTP. You will need software to do this, but there is plenty of free FTP software available. You may also upload your sitemap to your website through the file manager in the control panel for your website. Load it into the root directory of your website. (The root directory is the main directory of your website.)
Once you have created your sitemap, you need to submit it to Google. There are two ways you may do this:
The first is to simply submit the link for your sitemap to Google. Google has a page where you may do this, and it doesn”t require you to sign up for an account. If you want to get your site indexed more quickly, then sign up for a free account with Google and log into Webmaster Tools.
Once you are logged in, the next step is to submit your sitemap. Google provides simple instructions for submitting your sitemap.
During the submission process, you will need to add a verification. (Google wants to make sure your website belongs to you.) You may either add a tag to the header of your website, or you may upload a verification file to your website (Don”t worry; Google tells you how to do this.)
Once you have added your sitemap, Google will begin indexing your website within hours. You may log into your account later and check your statistics, as well as progress.
There’’s no mystery to getting your website indexed by Google. Just follow the steps, and within hours Google will start indexing your website.
About The Author
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Jinger Jarrett is the author of “Internet Marketing to GO! Cashing in on Google,” available on Amazon.
