One question that I see being asked over and over again is “Why won’t my website get indexed?”. Some users make websites and, say, two weeks later, they’re still waiting for their website to be indexed by the main search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. I thought I’d make this post just to clear things up and show some very basic methods of getting your website indexed quickly.

The first step is to generate a sitemap for your website. Most webmasters already know about this, but to do so, you should use a sitemap generator website, such as xml-sitemaps.com. Once an XML sitemap has been generated, you simply upload this file to your web hosting account in the public_html folder (Most of the time). Then you need to let Google know about it. For this, you have to add your website into Google Webmaster Tools and then verify it. This is a really easy step to do which I’m sure doesn’t need explaining. Once you’ve submitted your sitemap, you can leave Google to do the rest.

The next step is to submit your website to Digg.com. Digg gets crawled really, really quickly so by submitting to it, you should find that your website also gets found really quickly. It’s very simple to do – Create a Digg account and then submit your website’s homepage through it. Within several hours, Google should find you. For now, let’s move onto even more steps which will help you get indexed quickly.

Another way you can get indexed is by simply visiting certain websites. When you visit the websites, a page will be generated which Google will crawl and index. This does help. Here is a list you can use:

http://whois.domaintools.com/[URL]

http://hosts-file.net/default.asp?s=[URL]

http://www.aboutus.org/[URL]

http://www.quantcast.com/[URL]

http://www.cubestat.com/[URL]

http://www.websiteoutlook.com/[URL]

http://www.statbrain.com/[URL]

http://www.builtwith.com/?[URL]

http://snapshot.compete.com/[URL]

http://whois.tools4noobs.com/info/[URL]

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/?url=[URL]

http://www.siteadvisor.cn/sites/[URL]/summary/

http://www.aboutdomain.org/backlinks/[URL]/

http://www.whoisya.com/[URL]

http://www.who.is/whois-com/[URL]

http://www.zimbio.com/search?q=[URL]&btnG=Search

http://whois.ws/whois-info/ip-address/[URL]/

http://whoisx.co.uk/[URL]

Simply replace [URL] with your website’s domain name and then visit each link. This can take a bit of time but is certainly worth doing.

The final step of getting indexed quickly is to make a few comments on DoFollow, High-PageRank blog posts. You could do this on my blog, for example. These links will not only help you get indexed quicker, but will also benefit you even more in future because it should improve your rankings too. Make sure your comments are relevant though, spamming blogs will get you nowhere when you’re doing this.

In conclusion, if you want to get indexed, the tips in this blog post will definitely help you to achieve it very quickly.

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