We're all guilty of it. In fact, a few weeks ago I published a new blog post on my site and found myself checking at least once every 15 minutes or so to see if it had been indexed in Google yet. Now, normally I would just leave it alone and let Google get to it on its own, but it was news so I wanted to get the post indexed as quickly as possible.
I've long known of ways to help speed up the process of getting a page indexed, in fact I used to have a little ritual I followed after creating a blog post. It went something like this:
- Ping it
- Like it
- Tweet it
- Plus One It
To ping it, I would go over to Pingler.com and enter in the title, URL and category then hit submit. Pingler will ping over 80 different services with your URL, alerting them to your content.
To like it, I just hit the Facebook "like" button on the page. If your website doesn't have a Facebook Like button, then you should seriously consider getting one. It's fairly simple to set up and is pretty much necessary if you want to keep up with your competitors.
Next, I head over to Twitter and post a new tweet containing my URL (normally shortened with Bitly or any other URL shortener). You can take this a step further if you someone else who has a Twitter account by having them retweet your original tweet. This will make sure that it gets indexed as quickly as possible.
The next step is to "Plus One" the page with Google Plus. I've found that any activity within Google Plus (such as plus one, adding authorship/publisher status, or even just sharing a URL) gets Googlebot crawling the page rather quickly.
If, after trying these four things you find that your URL still hasn't been indexed, you may need to break out the big guns. If you have a Google Webmaster account, there are a number of tools within your dashboard that will help your website or single pages get indexed. Between the "XML Sitemap Submission" and "Fetch as Google" tools, you can literally have your entire website indexed within just an hour or two when used correctly.
There have been times when I have had blog posts indexed within an hour using these methods alone, but then again there have been times when it seemed as if I was unable to get a page indexed no matter what I did. For times like this, I like to use a little trick that I call the "Instant Indexer", with which I have literally had pages indexed within minutes. This trick is super-simple and only takes a few seconds to do.
So why didn't I just say to do this in the first place? Well, to be honest, this trick just gets your page indexed but provides no other benefit. By using social media signals to get Google to crawl your site, you're giving yourself a little bonus link juice as well by having Google crawl through to your page from a valuable social media link.
However, for those times when nothing else seems to work and you need to get your page indexed fast, just follow these steps:
- Go over to Google's Keyword Tool at: https://adwords.google.com/o/Targeting/Explorer?__c=1000000000&__u=1000000000&ideaRequestType=KEYWORD_IDEAS
- Rather than adding a keyword, put the link of the page you want to get indexed into the second field that's labeled "Website", fill out the CAPTCHA (if you're not signed into AdWords) and hit the "Search" button.
What this basically does is it tells Google to go over to whatever address you typed into the form, crawl the page and return any keywords that it finds the page is relevant for.
This is essentially "forcing" Google to crawl the page, which in turn gets the page indexed almost immediately. I have never seen this method fail at getting a webpage indexed quickly. If used in cunjunction with all the methods I've laid out here in this article, not only will your page get indexed faster, but it will also rank higher almost immediately!
Larry Sheckell is an internet entrepreneur and SEO expert that's been involved with internet marketing since early 2002. After seeing first-hand the crummy SEO and internet marketing services being peddled upon the general public, Larry started his newest venture, Web Marketing Wizardry - a company dedicated to providing small business and website owners services that ACTUALLY WORK to get them more traffic and higher rankings in Google.
For more information about Larry or to see what he's been up to, visit his website at: http://webmarketingwizardry.com/
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