How do you get your site into Google?

Raymond Lin · 5 Sep 2008 at 09:01

My site has been live for 10 days now, and it still doesn't come up in the search, not even when i search my site directly into google.

I've done this bit http://www.google.com/addurl/ 3 times already over a week, but it has still not shown up in google.

Is there any other way to add my site into google?

Cuchulain · 5 Sep 2008 at 09:03

I don't think there's any other way of you getting listed, you just have to be patient, my site took over a month to get listed.

TwoSaints · 5 Sep 2008 at 09:30

I was going to say make sure your meta data is full of information, but i had a look and seen that you have already done so.

I would imagine that it is just going to take some time as mentioned above, I would make sure you add the url for some individual pages into the addurl part of google as well as it'll then pick them up and bring more visitors in via that.

voodooflux · 5 Sep 2008 at 09:51

Raymond Lin said:
Is there any other way to add my site into google?

Wouldn't hurt to submit a sitemap as well.

mattgaunt · 5 Sep 2008 at 09:57

The way Googles search engine works is called Page Rank, basically it works by having computers that trawl over the internet and in a sense visit your site, once they do you'll be given a pagerank, then it is increased depending on links to your site and various other factors.

So you gotta wait till one of their servers navigate to yours, adding the url probably just makes sure you're on a list to eventually get scanned :-)

GravyMonster · 5 Sep 2008 at 10:51

Sitemaps do help - you can create on at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

platypus · 5 Sep 2008 at 12:10

Since you're using WP Raymond, there's quite a few SEO plugins you can download. Try one of those.

LPL · 5 Sep 2008 at 12:35

raymondlin into google brings your site up first
so does raymond lin

Craig321 · 5 Sep 2008 at 12:37

I managed to get a few of my sites on Google within a couple of days. I put links to the new websites on my older sites that were already listed, then when Google crawled them it picked the new site up

So maybe if you have a friend with a site that's listed, or you have another site that's listed then put a link on there.

platypus · 5 Sep 2008 at 12:44

Raymond Lin · 5 Sep 2008 at 14:10

It didn't this morning !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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Major_Disaster · 5 Sep 2008 at 19:36

Speaking from experience, Google is very good at picking up websites and links. You may find that your site experiences a new site "boost", where your site is higher than usual for some keywords. This will eventually drop.

You might also consider requesting this topic to be deleted / removing the links to your site as searching for raymondlin.net in Google now brings this topic up before your actual site.

Look into SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). 12 months ago i took over and redisigned a new site (with NO previous experience what so ever). Now the site has a sub / around 1 million Alexa rank, Google PR3 and has just got sitelinks. Moral of the story, if you work at it, any site can be at the top of Google (for your keywords that is!)

Raymond Lin · 5 Sep 2008 at 20:40

Good idea MD, i'll ask for this thread to be deleted

manic111 · 5 Sep 2008 at 21:58

Major_Disaster said:
Speaking from experience, Google is very good at picking up websites and links. You may find that your site experiences a new site "boost", where your site is higher than usual for some keywords. This will eventually drop.

You might also consider requesting this topic to be deleted / removing the links to your site as searching for raymondlin.net in Google now brings this topic up before your actual site.

Look into SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). 12 months ago i took over and redisigned a new site (with NO previous experience what so ever). Now the site has a sub / around 1 million Alexa rank, Google PR3 and has just got sitelinks. Moral of the story, if you work at it, any site can be at the top of Google (for your keywords that is!)

I'm looking at setting up a couple of websites. Are there any decent online tutorials for SEO?

mattgaunt · 6 Sep 2008 at 20:10

Just a random thing I found Google web masters toolkit :-D

Dave M · 7 Sep 2008 at 01:05

Raymond Lin said:
Good idea MD, i'll ask for this thread to be deleted

Not much point - some other forum is already higher simply due to your sig, you can't stop everyone on the internet mentioning your site in case it gets above you in rankings.

Doesn't google page rank prefer sites to have links from good quality sites anyway? I'd just leave it and let your own site's rank build - your pretty much day one after all.

What keywords do you expect to be searched on btw - surely somebody searching for your domain name could just type it if they don't find what they want?

Major_Disaster · 11 Sep 2008 at 17:40

Yeah, there are loads of SEO tools. Too many guides to mention, but the jist of it is:
Sort out meta tags,
Keywords in H1s,
Keywords in body,
Have nice code that validates,
Use CSS,
More good quality inbound links the better,
More traffic the better.

I personally would recommend in future using example.com and such, so you dont see your site where you dont want it.

Also, take a look at this really good SEO analysis tool i use (its free!): http://www.websitegrader.com/

Also, make use of the tools out there from the search engines. Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics, Yahoo Site Explorer and Live Search Webmaster Tools.

Good luck!