You put in a lot of hard work in

• Choosing the domain name
• Selecting the hosting provider & hosting plan
• Choosing the blogging platform

You also spend hours on

• Selecting the theme
• Setting up various plugins (including SEO plugins)
• Writing blog posts and publishing them (with one keyword per post)

Now what? What is the next step? Do you just keep waiting for Google to come to your blog or website?

How can you get your blog or website indexed by Google real quick? Is there a fast-track process?

Here are the things that you can do to get you blog or website indexed faster by Google.

Get incoming links

Try to get some incoming links from other blogs and websites in your niche. If possible, try to get them from sites that already have some traffic, and have a good page rank (PR).

If the blog you have started is not your first blog, you can easily leverage your existing blog to get some links to the new blog!

For more on getting backlinks, please check out “Where to get backlinks from for good SEO“.

Produce fresh content

To make Google come to your blog, and to keep it coming back frequently, you need to produce fresh content constantly.

Write blog posts regularly, and Google should be at your doorstep sooner rather than later!

Utilize the power of Social Media

Submit some of your good articles to social media sites. These include (but are definitely not limited to):

• Digg
• Stumbleupon
• Delicious
• Mixx
• Technorati

Google constantly indexes these social media websites, and any link back to your blog would be followed very quickly!

If you know some power users for these sites and can get your articles submitted through them, even better! This would mean that:

• Your post gets a presence on the social media site, and Google would find you
• Even more users get exposed to your blog post submission (due to the power user status of the submitter), and you get increased traffic at your blog. And possibly, some backlinks as well!

Use Twitter

It is still unclear if Google would follow & index your links posted in Twitter (due to the “no follow” attribute, but if nothing else, it would drive traffic to your blog and might earn you some back links!

Implement Google AdSense

When you have Google AdSense on your blog, Google needs to know the content of your blog before it can start presenting the context sensitive ads.

What does this mean? It means that Google indexes you blog to find out what it contains!

This may or may not mean immediate inclusion in the Google index, but it surely helps.

Implement Google Site Search

The logic is same as above – to give accurate search results for your blog, Google needs to know its contents. This means that Google quickly indexes you site when you use Site Search!

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Onsite SEO is the process of tweaking or doing things on your own blog or website in order to increase your SEO.

For example, you can pick the best keywords for your blog, and write keyword focused blog posts.

Onsite SEO is relatively easy, as all the changes are to be made on your blog, and are therefore, mostly in your hands. Thus, you should be maximizing your onsite SEO.

(When you change things on a particular page or post to increase your search engine rankings, it is called Onpage SEO)

I would be writing a lot about onsite SEO – please subscribe to my RSS feed to get instant updates as soon as a post is published.

What is Offsite SEO?

But what you do on your own blog can only do so much!

Modern search engines like Google place a lot of importance on what others say or do regarding you.

For example:

• The type of sites that link to you
• The anchor text they use to link to your blog
• How popular your blog is on social media sites

Basically, search engines like Google lay a lot of stress on the things external to your blog, as they consider these things as a vote for your blog.

Tweaking these factors, which are external to your blog, is called Offsite SEO.

Offsite SEO is relatively difficult, as the changes are to be made outside your blog, and are therefore, not directly in your hands.

Importance of Offsite SEO

If others are positive about you (say many people have submitted your posts to social media sites or many other blogs have linked to your blog) it shows that people like your blog.

And since the purpose of a search engine is to provide the best content to its users, they would rank your site higher – because they know that people already find your posts useful!

Therefore, good offsite SEO is extremely important for good SEO.

I would also be talking a lot about offsite SEO – please subscribe to my RSS feed to get instant updates as soon as a post is published.

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