How to get your site indexed fast

Please bear with me reading this post it will be a necessarily long one. I don't want to skimp on the details. Okay here is the plan on how to get a new website indexed fast. First of all as I said in the last post I recommend not submitting to search engines. What you should do instead is get a small amount of links from other sites with high link popularity.

A websites link popularity is measured by its google pagerank (pr) number. Every site on the internet will have a pagerank from 0 to 10 with 10 being the most popular (in other words google and yahoo). Your goal should be getting links from websites with a pagerank of 5 or higher to get listed quickly. The reason for this is that the search engine spiders crawl those popular sites frequently and will follow links to your pages. Once they crawl them you will be listed in a matter of a few days.

So where do you go to get links? The fastest and easiest way is to use social bookmarking. You can find a list of the top 30 bookmarking sites with the highest pagerank here.

An alternative to using social bookmarks is to set up a few blogs with a link back to your site. You can get a free blog at blogger.com and wordpress.com. You can also build a lens at squidoo.com to get a high quality link. A squidoo lens is very simaler to a blog. You then want to write several posts and ping your blog or lens at pingomatic.com. Doing that will get the blog as well as your website crawled and indexed fast.

If you have a small site with only a few pages then having a few links will be plenty to get indexed. If you have a big website with humdreds of pages you will need a different strategy and it will take a little more work, a few extra links and more time to get completely indexed.

There are other excellent ways to build links but to start out I recommend using those two methods.

For larger sites I recommend using a method called deep linking. Instead of having links just to your home page you link to other pages on your site as well. You don't necessarily have to link to every page. If your pages are well interlinked a small handfull of deep links will usually work wonders. If after a few deep links you don't get completely indexed then you can just link to some of the pages that aren't listed yet. This method is very effective for sites up to a few hundred pages.

If you have a really big site with hundreds to thousands of pages in addition to deep linking you should consider adding a sitemap. A sitemap is basically a directory page on your site with links to all your pages that helps the search engine spiders find all the pages and crawl it completely. You can find a free sitemap generator for up to 500 pages at xml-sitemaps.com. There is a more comprehensive guide to making a sitemap that can be found here.

One final thing I just want to say about linking to new sites is it's important not to overdo it. Search engines Google especially does not like to see a lot of links to brand new websites. You want to grow your number of links nice and slowly in a way that looks natural. For at least 6 months you don't want to have more than 100 total links. Any more than that will be a red flag to Google.

Also like many webmasters who want to rank high for a specific keyword phrase the temptation is to make every link text the same. It is also very important to vary the link text to make it look natural to google. For example if your website is about music you want a few links to be music and maybe some to be "mp3 music" and some to be "country music" and so on.

The plan I just gave here is very ethical and works well. Anyone who follows it will not be in any danger of having their site penalized in google, yahoo or msn.