Secret of Getting Your Site Indexed by Google and Yahoo In No Time

Introduction to Site Submission
If you are like most people, you spend a lot of time building content, writing articles, and then start tweaking HTML, CSS, Metatags, Title, Anchor Text etc. Once you are happy with the site, you start thinking about getting traffic to the website.

Someone tells you that most of the traffic today comes form top search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. So you head to these search engines, and find the "Add URL" page. Then you religiously submit your site to all the search engines.

You then start to wait anxiously for your site to get listed, and check for your listing in search engines repeatedly, without any success. Some of you begin to get agitated, and start submitting to the search engines again, and again.

All this is in vain. Your site is nowhere to be found. And you wonder why!

The problem is that the search engines either don't know about your site, or don't find anything on your site worth indexing. You see, their key criteria to list a site is based on Link Popularity.

Link Popularity
Link Popularity means how popular your site is. If it really contains great content, definitely others would be linking to it. And if search engines don't find any other sites linking to it, they don't think anything great about your site. The point is that links coming from other sites matter, and specially coming from other quality sites matter more.

For example if you run a photography website, and you have links coming from other top quality photography websites like National Geographic, DPReview.com, Photo Galleries, Photography.org, Kodak, About Photography etc. then it gives you a lot of credibility.

But it is not easy for you to get a link from National Geographic, unless you have been around for some time, and have the credibility of a Professional Photographer for the past many years.

So what do you do? Well, there are other quality sites that are easier to get links from. Let's check them out.

Forums
In every industry, there are some top quality forums, which are considered the best, where the gurus hang out. Such forums have a high Pagerank, and are themselves considered authority sites. If you start to hang out in such forums, read, understand and see what's going on for a while, you will get the pulse. And it is very easy to take part in forums. You just need to register, mostly for free, and it is instantaneous.

Once you are a forum member, you can post questions, and better yet, you can post answers to questions raised by other members. Of course, you must only answer those questions which you know a lot about.

The purpose of joining and posting in Forums
The purpose of doing all this is that most forums allow you to give a signature at the bottom of your post. In this signature, you can post a link to your own website. This link, coming from the forum site, which in itself is considered an authority, will have a high weightage on your own site's ranking.

Once you begin to get many links from such high quality sites, your own site's popularity will increase, and you will notice it in your own site's Page rank. This is because your site is easily found by the search engines in these popular forumns. Once they notice a new link, they quickly make a point to visit your new site, which makes your site indexed by the search engines in no time.

Anchor Text
Another thing to note is that the anchor text, or the text that is hyper linked is of importance. Instead of having links that say "click here", you should aim to get varied anchor text, which should be more appropriate to your site. If you can introduce some keywords that you are focusing on, the link will have a higher impact on your ranking.

Blog
Blogs are another way to have quality, inbound links coming your way. You can start your own blog, and you can comment on other people's blogs too. So find the most popular ones in your industry, and post a few good comments about what is good on their blog. Chances are that the blog owner will notice, and may even visit your own blog and post his or her own comment too.

This is a great way to build incoming links from quality sites, which are blogs.

Submit to Article Directory
In the same manner, find the best article directories. It is relatively easy to write a simple list of things or a short article on your industry, and post it to the best online article directories.

Most of them have a good page rank, and they qualify as a good inbound link to your site. Further, writing an article also elevates you to the status of "author", which most people equate to "guru" or "expert" on a topic.

Conclusion
With such inexpensive techniques, you can slowly start to build your site's link popularity, and build a name and reputation for your website. Best is, there is no investment at all, you are known as a "published author" or "expert". So use these techniques, and get your site indexed by Google or Yahoo in no time.

Go ahead, get started now!

Vinai is a popular speaker, writer and internet marketer. He conducts training courses and provides sage advice to small businesses in building, managing and profiting from email marketing & e-commerce websites for the past 8 years.

Vinai Prakash works as a Senior Search Engine Optimization Consultant at The SEO Bible Vinai can be contacted at sales@brandrich.com for speaking engagements, as well as for consultancy engagements & advice on profiting from electronic marketing.