How to get on google fast

How to get on Google fast – SEO Tip

If you are creating a new website and want to receive traffic from Google within 4 to 6 months then good luck! A new domain does not carry much weight with Google. Older and established domains are so much easy to rank compared to new domains.

Here are a few tips that will help you to get a new domain to rank faster.

SEO Tip 1

As soon as you get your domain set up, straight away get your designer to create a home page with some basic text and keywords that you want to rank for and maybe an image – your logo perhaps. Don’t make the common mistake of waiting till you have a perfect home page before you add something. Do it right away. Then you just need Google to visit and index your page. This is the tricky bit but can be done in a few ways.

If you don’t do anything to get Google to visit it may take three or more months before Google even finds out about your page.

What you are doing is starting the timer on Google. For the first three months or so Google will ‘sandbox’ your site. What that means is that it is playing ‘wait and see’. It is starting to build trust around your site. It will not jump in right away and rank you high – it will watch and see. Yahoo on the other hand is different – it will gobble up anything you send it and rank you high very fast if you give it good content – as long as you wake it up in the right way. More on that below.

So with your new home page up, and when you do what I suggest below, your site will be found quicker and the timer will be started. At the same time your designer will be busy creating your site and getting everything perfect which can take up to three months. So when you full site is ready to go Google should be ‘letting you out of the sandbox’.

SEO Tip 1 – Action

The fastest way to tell Google and other search engines you exist is to send it a special invitation in a special format. This format is XML. It is a little secret (especially with Yahoo) to get search engines to visit fast without doing much work.

All you do is the following:

• Add the text below to your site saving the file in the root of your site and call it sitemap.xml
• Change the URL web name (yoursite) to your site address
  Upload the file to your webserver – you may have to get your designer to do this
• Change the lastmod date – <lastmod> to today’s date (format yyyy-mm-dd)
• Save the file
• ‘Ping’ the XML site map to Google, Yahoo and a couple of other search engines using the link below changing (yoursite) to your site name in the link
• You are done – you will receive a message from each search engine in turn
• Check if you are indexed in Google by typing this info:http://www.yoursitename.com replacing www.yoursitename.com with your actual site name

It may still take a few days for Google to respond but this should work.

Sitemap.xml

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
			    http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
	<url>
		<loc>http://www.yoursite.com/</loc>
		<lastmod>2010-02-23</lastmod>
		<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
		<priority>1.0</priority>
	</url>
</urlset>

Use this link to ‘ping’ the major search engines – just replace (yoursite) with your real site name.

http://www.sitemapwriter.com/notify.php?crawler=all&url=http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

SEO Tip 2

As we mentioned trust is everything for Google so finding ways to increase this always helps especially with a new domain. One very overlooked way to do this is with the registration of your domain name. Most people when they initially register a domain only do so for 12 months. This is a big mistake!

The message you are sending to Google when you only register a brand new domain for 12 months is that you do not intend being around for long. Of course this is usually not the case, you are just saving money! Don’t save money – purchase a minimum of three years on a new domain, five or 10 are better.

So right now your solution is simple – extend your domain registration to at least three years, five is better.

Google can see the domain register for all domains seeing it is public information so it can use this to assess your plans. Companies that are serious about what they do, and more professional, will register for longer periods of time. Google notes this extra level of professionalism allowing it to build more trust which usually translates to better rankings faster.

SEO.SIMPLE. Blog

One very powerful thing you can do is create a blog on your site. This can be done as soon as you create your site. Our SEO.SIMPLE. service comes with a blog all set up for you along with a regular content service. Having a blog on your site will make a massive difference to your SEO and even if you main site is not ready for a month or so the blog will act as a ‘landing pad’ for Google to start ranking you.

We can set up the blog normally within a few days and it does not affect what you web design people are doing at all. So registering for our SEO.SIMPLE. service will get you up and running with Google super fast.

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