How
to Get Indexed on Google
Google is the most important search engine
to get indexed on and this one listing alone can bring you
massive traffic. Google also provides the primary search
results for AOL and Netscape search so if you get indexed on
Google you will automatically get indexed on AOL and
Netscape.
One of the easiest ways to get indexed on
Google is to build an xml sitemap which lists all of your
web pages in a format that Google finds user friendly. We
covered a past tutorial on this where we generated an xml
sitemap specifically for Google. In this tutorial we are
going to first verify the web site with Google and then add
the sitemap so that it can be spidered by Google.
You will need to go to the Google home
page and create an account. This is free and just means that
you supply an email address and password. When you log in
the first time just click on the Webmaster Tools
link. You will be asked to add a site and you just type in
your domain name URL in the box. The next page will ask you
to verify your web site. This just confirms the web site is
yours and that you want Google to index your pages.
Click on the box which says choose
verification method. I personally always use the
Upload an HTML File option. When you choose this option
you will see the Google code which is a html page title.
Just copy this page, go into your html editor and create a
new page and save this page by pasting
the code provided by Google. Upload this file to the server and then you can
click on the Verify link. Never delete this file as
Google will always need it.
On the left hand column you will see a
Sitemaps link. Click on this and then on the Add a
Sitemap link. When prompted to choose type you need to
click on the Add General Web Sitemap. In the box you then add the sitemap extension
details. Don't forget you should have already uploaded
the sitemap to the root directory of your web site so it
would read www.yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml
In the box just type in sitemap.xml and
then Add Web Sitemap box. You should then receive
confirmation that the sitemap has been added to your account
and will be crawled by Google very soon. You can check back
after a number of hours to see if Google has crawled it. If
it hasn't then do nothing, do not resubmit it otherwise
Google may see this as spam. Just let Google grab the
sitemap in it's own time.
When you make changes to your web site in
the future you will need to create a new sitemap that
includes the new change details. Google will automatically
come back and spider it again. The more times you update
your web site will inform the spider to come back more
frequently. You can also add the change frequency details
into the sitemap when you first build it.
Resources:
Google
A video tutorial on how to get indexed on Google is
available to members of The Inner Circle.
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