Comments on: Getting Indexed By Search Engines

By: How to Get Taller Fast

How to Get Taller Fast — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:26:08 +0000

I never thought of using the Google Alerts thing for that before. I always saw it as a bit of a rubbish service. Played around with it a bit and then gave up.

I’m gonna set one each up for all of my sites. See what comes of it.

By: Padma

Padma — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:08:23 +0000

Hi.. Great Post!! very helpful!!

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:06:52 +0000

Marcel, copying articles is not how you should build a website and will get you no where. I won’t allow you to promote a site like that here. Sorry.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:25:49 +0000

Anytime Jeremy!

By: Cash Back

Cash Back — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:01:45 +0000

Wayne I would be willing to write it but I am currently crunched for time. I’ve got a few days or work left before I go on vacation for a couple weeks. Also I’m not sure if I could do this post justice with a follow-up post. You have done such a great job of making a thorough tutorial about getting indexed. Thanks for the offer though.

-Jeremy

By: Wayne

Wayne — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:13:07 +0000

Thanks David, it’s nice to be able to boil things down to a list you can just work. I should refine this a bit and republish as a step by step.

By: David Cooley

David Cooley — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:57:31 +0000

Great article Wayne,

This is just the type of information more bloggers and designers need to pay attention to. SEO is not rocket science, just a little basic work each time.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:06:13 +0000

Jeremy, That’s a real good point, and would make a nice follow-up post, want to write it? Just let me know, otherwise, thanks for commenting. It would be easy to think that you could just add your sites and then wait, but that’s not true. There’s always more…lol

Cheers!

By: Cash Back

Cash Back — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:39:14 +0000

This is a great guide for anyone looking to get their site indexed by search engines. Many people don’t understand why their brand new site doesn’t get indexed soon after they launch it. Or others think they can just submit it and forget it. You do have to ensure that your site is completely ready to get indexed. Your checklist points out some very important things issues.

Of course getting indexed is just one step. From there you have to convince the search engines that your site is relevant for your target keywords and trustworthy enough for rankings.

-Jeremy

By: Wayne

Wayne — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:47:58 +0000

Anytime Nick!

Rena, first off, I have a number of sites where I forgot to do this or that, so you’re in good company (if I do say so myself, lol).

It would be hard for me to say either way without knowing what you have and have not done. I also wouldn’t know what ramifications any changes might mean to your site without knowing the details.

If you know what you’ve done wrong or incorrectly, I’d start trying to make corrections for them. However, if you are talking about buying a domain name for a site that has been up for a while and indexed pretty well (I see you have 82 pages in google), that is a completely different ball game, and applying a domain name could, without proper planning and approach, could level (as a negative) your traffic and subscribers numbers.

Not having a domain name isn’t so terrible, and I certainly don’t want to give the impression that it is something that everyone needs to do. There are, however, several benefits to having your own domain name.

As for backtracking, only do that if the end result will be better than not backtracking. Sometimes that’s a personal decision.

I’d be happy to discuss this with you further if you’d like.