How to Get Google to Search Your Site NOW!

Posted by WY on October 17, 2008

You have a website and can’t figure out why it’s not showing up at the top of Google’s search rankings. You go to Google.com for some guidance but get lost trying to find answers.

Certainly, achieving visibility in Google’s search rankings can be a mystery.

But there is no reason why you can’t help google get your site found.

Google Sitemaps (www.google.com/webmasters/) is a program that gives you the chance to let Google know about your website.
You can upload a site map, which shows Google the pages of your site (create it at www.xml-sitemaps.com). Once that’s done, you’ll be registered with Google, where you can learn vital statistics.

1. Query statistics: Information regarding the queries that Google searchers have used to and been returned results about your site.
2. Crawl statistics: Information regarding successes and failures of crawls of your site as well as PageRank information and also how often Google “crawls” your site for updates
3. Page analysis: Information about the types of pages on your site such as the type of page and the page encoding.
4. Index statistics: Information about how your site is indexed. For example, you can get a list of indexed pages for your site, a list of pages that link to your site, and get a look at the Google cache for your site and a lot more.

Take note that this doesn’t necessarily mean that your pages will be listed for your favorite keywords, only that your website will be discovered a lot quicker than if you don’t.

And it has also been shown that a sitemap is usually more useful for relatively established sites. For new sites, the first step to increase traffic and viewership will always be adding fresh quality content.

Yahoo offer similar services as well. But I found that once Google has your website information, Yahoo is usually not that far behind. So making the effort to submit my website to Yahoo seems like wasted effort.

URLs covered in this post:
www.xml-sitemaps.com: To create your sitemap for submission
www.google.com/webmasters: To register with Google so you can submit your sitemap to Google