Having Trouble Getting Your Site Indexed?

Friday, November 18th, 2005 at 11:20 am by Anik Singal

This is a question we get regularly at The Affiliate Classroom - “How do I get my website indexed into all the major search engines.” Before I give you the simple and easy way to do that, I want to clear up some myths:

1. Submitting to search engine helps - It doesn’t. I have tested this and I never saw it do a thing!

2. “Just wait…” - No way. If you don’t actually do the right things, getting indexed is almost impossible now days.

3. Indexing in 3 days - On a brand new website? Good luck - Maybe the home page will get indexed. But a “deep crawl” for all your pages is not really possible in that short time anymore.

4. Blogging and Pinging - Ahhaaa my favorite. The latest craze (which is now dying). Let’s set it straight when it comes to blogging and pinging.

Blogging and pinging will MOST DEFINITELY give your site some short term indexing in Yahoo and MSN (not really Google). However, if you stop blogging and pinging, you’ll soon noticed that the engines (especially Yahoo) will fast remove your site. If you blog/ping too much, they will remove your sites, etc…

Personally, I am not a big fan of blogging/pinging - it just seems like a short-term solution that can get you in trouble if not done right.

So, what IS the best way to get indexed?

Simple - LINKS, LINKS and more LINKS.

The oldest, most traditional way is still the best way. The only difference is that now you need more links and they take longer to get you indexed. Well, this month, our magazine reveals 80+ directories that you can go list your website at almost immediately and get back-links from…

Indexing should not really be a problem any more: