Mar 11, 2013
Whenever a website is created, everybody wants to get the website the higher rank in search engines and track huge amount of visitors. The Google bot searches all the sites to index in Google Search Engine. So you have fetch Google bot to your site to be indexed.
Now the question is how can you attract Google bot to your website sooner than later. In this post I want to share my knowledge that how website content is crawled and indexed, plus some great ways to get the Googlebot to your website or blog to index your content.
Basics of Google bot, Crawling and Indexing:
Generally beginners don't care about the Google bot, Crawling and Indexing. But these three matters are very important for successful Search Engine Optimization (SEO). So before I get started lets discuss about Google bot, Crawling and Indexing.
- Google bot: Its a simple software of Google that Google sends for collecting information from the web and add to the Google searchable index.
- Crawling: Crawling is a process by collecting updated information from all the websites and get report back to Google.
- Indexing: Indexing is the processing of the informations gathered by the Google bot by crawling process. When the informations are processed, they are added to the Google searchable Index if determined as quality content. In the process of indexing, Google bot analyze the words of documents such as Titles and ALT tags.
The details of crawling process and activities of Google bot in your site can be observed and manipulated by Webmaster tools and for help you can visit Webmaster Tools Help.
How to get a new website to be discovered:
There are many ways to discover your site in search engines. Here is some ways to discover your new website or blog in Google search engine discussed below:
- Create Sitemap: A sitemap is a XML document which list up all the pages in your website. It tells search engines when new pages have been added and how often to check back for changes on specific pages. You can found many tools to create sitemap or you can try XML Sitemaps Generator.
- Submitting Sitemap: Submission of sitemap is very important task to optimize your site to search engines. To do this go to Webmaster tools with a google account and submit it. If don't have any account create an account and submit your site. I will show you that how to submit sitemaps in Webmaster tools in my next post. You can also submit sitemap in Bing search engine by Webmaster tools.
- Submit Website to Search Engines: You can submit your site URL to Google by Crawl URL that will help your site to be indexed.
- Create Social profiles: Social profiles are very beneficial tools to find your websites to the visitors. You can create pages in social profiles belongs to your site and add the logos to your website. I'v already discussed about adding like button of facebook in website which may be helpful.
- Share your new website: Sharing of your new website link is very helpful tools get optimized. You can add share buttons to your website which will facilitates the visitors to share your links in their social profiles which can bring mass visitors to your site.
- Set up RSS feed with Feedburners: Feedburner is a Google's owned feed management system. Sign in to feedburner by Google account and submit your feed URL to burn it. This will also notify Google of your new blog and each time that your blog is updated with a new post.
- Submit your blog in Blog directories: Blog directories are the huge collection of blogs that people can find their desired blog. Your can submit your blog in this directories and it will help you build even more incoming links. Some popular blog directories are Technorati, Blogflux, Topofblogs, Blogarama, Blogtopsites etc. TopRank is also recommended for huge collection of blogs.
Adding Meta Tags which I discussed in my previous post about Add Meta tags to your blogger blog can be helpful to track the Google bot and other crawler software.
Google is the largest search engine all over the world. You may want your newly discovered content become visible to the visitors and it can be done by submitting sitemap and RSS feed and get indexed to Google search engine to track more visitors. Its a part of Search engine optimization (SEO).
Google is the largest search engine all over the world. You may want your newly discovered content become visible to the visitors and it can be done by submitting sitemap and RSS feed and get indexed to Google search engine to track more visitors. Its a part of Search engine optimization (SEO).
If you have new technique for Search Engine Optimization please share in comments.