How To Get Indexed On Google In Half An Hour

A question I come across alot by new webmasters is “How do I get listed on Google?”. The default answer to this is to simply add your URL using Googles submission tool at http://www.google.com/addurl/ and to wait a few weeks til the crawlers get round to your site in the queue. The unfortunate thing about this is that you could be waiting months in many cases til even just your domain name is listed on Google. This means you’re missing out on shedloads of traffic.

Once you understand how Google spiders/crawlers work, you can get yourself indexed and have your pages included in search results in the same day, sometimes within the same hour. So, just how do Google crawlers work? Well, in the olden days it used to be that at a set time every month Google would initiate its spiders and search for new sites, as well as update existing sites in its database. This was known as the Google dance and often saw large hops and drops in page rank for many sites. Eventually the Google dance became extinct and the spiders of today are constantly operational.

If you perform a search for a topic in Google there are 3 links next to the URL: Cached, Similar Pages & Note This. The Cached button shows you the last snapshot of the website Google took, along with the time and date. Now, if a website updates its content roughly every week, the spider will eventually learn this and, to optimize, will visit the site roughly once a week. Similarly if a website has new content every hour, the spider will learn this pattern and visit the site every hour or so. This means that popular websites like Digg and StumbleUpon are spidered several times per day, usually every half hour or so. Therefor, if you have a link on a major page of one of these sites, your link will be followed and your site will be indexed. The great thing about the sites mentioned is that they’re Social Bookmark sites and allow anyone to add links to anywhere. While getting on the front page isn’t really plausable, you can probably put together a quick link that will get onto one of the category pages, and those are spidered just as regularly

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