Every time we create a new website, our main goal is to get it indexed by Google as soon as possible. Although there is no time guarantee as to when the search engine will index your site, there are certain steps that can help you avoid the worst case scenario and make the search engines work for you. According to Google, crawling and indexing are processes that can take time and often depend on several factors. No predictions or guarantees can be made about when the URL will be indexed.
Therefore, in this article, we will address some factors that need to be taken into account for fast indexing of your site in Google.
Understand what is indexing
Most of you may not be familiar with the term indexing. In SEO, it refers to the search engines that keep track of the web pages on your site. When search engine bots start crawling your site based on index and non-index meta tags, it continues to add pages with index tags. In simple words, it is the way the spider processes and collects the data from the pages during its crawl, which helps to improve the search results. The spider notes new changes and documents and adds them to the search index maintained by Google. Google’s algorithm goes to work and decides where to rank the page among all the others based on the keywords.
Enter your URL on the Google URL submission page:
Once you’ve created your new website or pages, you can visit Google’s Submit URL page and then type the URL in the box, tick the captcha, and hit the Submit Request button. But for this, you need to create an account on webmaster tools using your Google account. Once this is done, you can wait for the pages of your website to be indexed in Google.
Create a sitemap of your site:
The next thing to consider is creating an XML file that stores all the links and pages on your site so that it helps Google crawlers quickly find your entire website. Whenever there are updates or you create a blog on your site, include the HTML sitemap link on every page so that the search engine bot can index your site, even if it starts from any corner of your site.
Use Google Search Console to crawl your site:
Google often recommends logging into its search console once a month to check for errors or traffic drops. The site offers a variety of indexing related tools and you will be able to confirm whether or not Google can access your pages. You can even notify the search engine about a domain change or any change in address and even issue urgent blocks on your content that you want removed from your site.
Use Robots.txt
In case you are not a developer or programmer, you may have seen a file, robots.txt in your domain files. This is a plain text file that resides in the root directory of your domain. It gives strict instructions to search engine spiders about which pages they can crawl and index. When spiders find a new domain or file, they read the instructions before taking any action. So your first step for your new site is to confirm that the site has a robots.txt file. This can be done by checking FTP or clicking File Manager via CPanel.
Submit your site to blog directories:
This is another means of getting your site indexed very quickly in Google. Most blog directories allow submission of your site’s content for free. They also give links and traffic. Also be sure to create social media profiles and use sites like Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. to create pages for your site and regularly submit new posts on them.
