How To Get Indexed By Google In 48 Hours
When I was first creating this blog, I starting wondering how long it took to get indexed by Google. I’ve created many websites, but have never worked on the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) end. I started reading other blogs and came across numerous posts of people who had pages up for months that had still not been indexed by Google. I also found several other blog sites (example) that claimed to have the magical answers of Google indexing. So I wondered, how quick could I get my new site indexed by Google. From my research, it seemed that anything under a week should be considered good. I, however, was determined to beat that. This is what I did:
- I signed up for my hosting account on a Saturday night
- On Sunday I installed WordPress and wrote a few articles for the site (I do consider the content in these articles “decent”)
- After I had created by articles/categories/tags I went to XML-Sitemaps.comand generated, you guessed it, an XML Sitemap. I then submitted this map to Google Webmaster Tools
- I signed up for Google Adsense and placed two ads on the site
- I submitted my site to Google’s Add URL page
- I downloaded and installed the Google XML Sitemaps Generator plugin for Wordpress which can be found here. I told the plugin to include all sitemap content, created the robots.txt file, and set change frequency to “Daily” for all items in the list.
- I downloaded and installed the All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin
- I added Google Analytics so I could monitor how much traffic I was getting
On Tueday, Google Analytics showed that on Monday I had received some traffic from Google Searches - all in less than 48 hours. I searched for my site on Google and, voila, there it was!
