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One of the most frequent questions I am asked is, “How do I get my site indexed by Google and other search engines ?”

here is my attempt to answer that question.

If I have left anything out or you know of any other way to get indexed quickly then please share with the class by leaving a comment below.

1. Submit your RSS feed

If you have a new blog then you most likely already have an RSS feed created for you.

What’s you want to do is make sure that you submit your RSS feed to various RSS feed aggregators.  You can read more about submitting your feeds and a list of directories here:
Submit Your RSS Feeds to RSS Directories

The most important of these is Google reader:
http://www.google.com/reader/

If you don’t have an account with Google reader I highly suggest that you get one.  Whenever you submit a new RSS feed to follow with Google reader it notifies Google of the site’s existence.

2. Google bookmarks

Google along with other major search engines has given people the ability to have their own customized home page.  Part of this customization includes having a list of bookmarks of sites the user wants to visit again.

Anytime Google sees a bookmark on someone’s page I suspect that they add it to their list of sites to visit.
If you’re not familiar with the Google homepage just go to:
http://www.google.com/ig
Hotmail and Yahoo also offer similar services and I highly recommend you take advantage of them.

3. Use Craigslist

Another creative way for Google to notice your new site is to get a link on Craigslist.

Now this is a little gray hat or black hat depending on who you ask so please don’t abuse it.

So what you want to do is go to Craigslist for some large city like Chicago and then look for Gigs and then for writing.

You’re going to post something under Gigs >> Writing about how you are looking for a potential writer for your blog.

Be sure to include a link to your website with the proper keywords in the anchor tag.

For example:

<a href="http://mysite.com">My keywords here</a>

Google crawls Craigslist frequently and will find your link.

I highly suggest doing this only once in one city.

Another side benefit of this is that you might actually find a good writer to help you produce content for your site.

Please don’t abuse this.

4. Post comments on blogs that don’t use nofollow

Posting relevant comments on blogs that don’t have nofollow in their links is another great way to get indexed very fast.

For more information on how to find blogs that don’t use nofollow go here:
Why nofollow matters and how to find blogs that don’t use it

5. Buy links

If you have some money and very little time then simply buying some links might be the easiest way to go.

There are several services out there including:
http://www.textlinkbrokers.com

6. Article marketing

Writing articles and submitting them to Ezine Articles is another good way to get indexed quickly.

For more information please see:

• Advanced Article Marketing
• VIDEO: 2 Tricky Ways To Get More Traffic From Article Marketing
• VIDEO: Article Marketing - How To Get Tons Of Traffic And Opt Ins
• VIDEO: Article Marketing - How To Choose The Best Titles
• Article Marketing - How To Choose The Best Topic For Your Niche
• Day 18: Article Marketing
• Stop The Article Madness & Start Making Cash!
• Article Marketing Basics

7. Social media

Social media can be a great way for you to get exposure to your site.  But submitting your site to zillions of different social media sites can be a major pain.

Services like social marker http://www.socialmarker.com have made this a lot easier.

8. Link exchanges

Link exchanges are one of the oldest ways for people to get exposure to their website and get indexed.

You can search Google looking for link exchanges but that’s kind of a pain and can be very time consuming.

Luckily there are services like linked market http://www.linkmarket.com where people looking to exchange links come together.

Most of us are using Google Adsense contextual network to generate some revenue from our websites. As for Google’s explanation “Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their website’s content pages and earn money”.
In general, Adsense is a complementary to Adwords and this technology delivers ads that are relevant to your site content. In general, this should enhance your visitor’s possibility to find relevant information about products and services they are looking for. Thus it is beneficial to all participants of the game. Your visitors get relevant information, Adwords advertisers get targeted traffic to their sites and Adsense publishers get paid for delivering traffic for Adwords participants.

However, you are participating in a content network publishing and this network is considered by advertisers to be less effective than the Google search network. This encourages most of advertisers to lower bids when they are using the content network. Some of them are not using the content network at all. Even worse, some of the webmasters are using the content network to drive traffic to their Made For Adsense (MFA) sites. Their goal is to trade low cost traffic from their massive Adwords campaigns into clicks from high paying words. Those sites are not delivering useful information to your visitors. Traffic from those sites is not targeted and advertisers are turning their backs to contextual advertising because of the bad quality of traffic (quality of traffic could be estimated by the amount of sales per visit).

As a webmaster using the contextual network to generate revenue from your quality content, you are interested in getting rid of low paying ads from Made for Adsense sites. The Google Adsense control panel allows you to filter sites that you don’t want to display ads from. The question is, what sites should you filter? There is a great resource that can help you: http://www.adsblacklist.com/. You can join for free and participate in their work. AdsBlackList.com is an unique project and it’s purpose is to help you maximize your Adsense revenue with minimal effort. They provide you with a list of the most commonly filtered websites whose webmasters use Adwords to attract visitors for a low price click so they can convert it to a high price click on their own MFA (Made for Adsense) or Low Cost per Click site(s). I am currently trying out this service and I will share my results with you in a month. This should give us a good time sample to make a correct