Getting Listed in Google without Submitting Your Website

Since Google delivers the majority of search engine traffic, its only natural to want to submit your website as quickly as possible. You've probably seen countless offers to submit your site to Google and other search engines...often for a fee. Well before you reach for your credit card, consider this; you can get listed into Google without actually submitting directly to them.

(PRWEB) April 5, 2005 -- Regarding its indexing process, Google says: "We add thousands of new sites to our index each time we crawl the Web, but if you like, you may submit your URL as well. Submission is not necessary and does not guarantee inclusion in our index. Given the large number of sites submitting URLs, it's likely your pages will be found in an automatic crawl before they make it into our index through the URL submission form."

We can therefore draw two conclusions:

1. Submitting your site does not guarantee inclusion.

2. Most pages are found and indexed automatically, when the Googlebot spider crawls the web.

Google has also made it clear that a page is given more importance when it is found through an automatic crawl. This can be easily verified when we consider how Google's PageRank system works: when page A links to page B, part of page A's PageRank trickles down to page B, increasing page B's PageRank (and, therefore, its importance). A manually submitted page will not enjoy this benefit.

Now that you know that manual submission is neither necessary nor the best way to go, what can you do to help Google find your pages? There are a couple of ways.

Beware The Blog! Literally, there has been an explosion of Internet web logs (or "blogs" as they are often referred as). A web log is simply an online journal in which you can write entries every day on any topic you like. You can also invite participation from others in your blog. There are many well-established blogs on the web for just about every subject under the sun. Just do a search for the blog of your interest, i.e. "gaming blogs". Find a blog that allows group participation and matches your own website content. Then post your entries to that blog, along with a link to your website. In no time flat, Googlebot (and other search engine spiders) will find you. Blogs just happen to be gourmet spider food these days. Search engines will often crawl these sites daily.

Discussion forums will also get your pages picked up in a hurry. Once again, there are literally thousands of these for the choosing. The trick is to find those forums that allow signatures within a posted message. A signature is a line of text that can be added to the end of your forum comments. Many forum posters include links to their websites within their signatures. There are a ton of high ranking forums out there that will get you indexed by Google relatively quickly. Just always remember to observe forum rules. And try to join forums that feature a topic that you have knowledge of. To register for most discussion forums, all you need is a valid email address (preferably a free yahoo or hotmail account).

Another good way to help Google find your pages is to exchange links with other sites. Google will crawl those sites, find the links to your page, and add it to the index.

There are other methods for getting listed in Google that are both simple and effective. You can get more tips at http://www.nettfinds.com/seo_help.html. Just stay clear of any methods that might get your site banned. This includes methods like spamming, cloaking and link farms among others.

Finally, remember to utilize good optimization (SEO). Optimize your pages as much as possible before you try to get them listed, so that you have a better chance of ranking higher in the search engine results pages (SERPs). After all, it won't do you much good to have your pages buried where no one can find them.

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