Monday, July 28, 2008

Get Listed On Google

By Al Soto

Show up on Google and take your website to the next level. It's not as hard as it sounds and does not take a long time. Why is it important you ask? Google is by far the most relevant search engine, as it is estimated that 70+% of US searches are made there. More people use Google to do their searching than any other search engine. Period. The millions of searches made there translate into super targeted traffic for your website.

Google offers an addurl page (just Google "addurl") on which you add your web address and wait for Google to come see your site and add it to their index. The problem with this method is that Google gets thousands of requests from site owners like yourselves each and every day day. It will take Google a very long time to get to your submission request and there is no guarantee that your submission request will be successful.

A 2nd way to get listed on Google is to have Google find you themselves without any direct submission to them. Article writing is very successful in this regard. The idea is to write a 450-700 word article realted to the content in your web site. As the author, you will be allowed to include a resource box at the bottom of teh article which would have at least one link back to your site. The major article directories, such as ezinearticles.com, are all spidered by Google frequesntly. Once the site is spidered, thelink would be followed back to your site and you would be added to the index. Make sure the article is useful and informative so that it will also generate alot of traffic back to your site as well.

The absolute best way of getting into Google is to have a site which Google has already indexed place a link on their site to your site. It is a known fact that Google prefers to find sites on their own. If you get a link from a site on Google, the next time Google spiders that site, it will follow the link to your site and add it to their index. How long that takes depends on how often Google's spiders visit that site. The general rule is that the more popular the site is ( the higher the page rank of the site) the more frequently Google will spider it.

If you want to show up on Google, you need to make sure that your site falls within the terms and conditions Google has fpor web sites in their index. That is very easy to find on their site and you should become familiar with those. None of these efforts will succeed if you don't fall within those guidelines.

The targeted traffic that you receive from getting on Google will be worth the little trouble it takes to get added. (Remember to optimize your pages for the relevant key phrases that those surfers will be searching for.) Once you start appearing in the search results and potential customers find you while searching for the products or services you are offering, you will do very well converting them into sales.

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