JERMAINE FITZGERALD

When I first started making sites, getting them indexed fast was something I enjoyed doing. I tried all types of methods and read of new ways to get them indexed faster. After learning more about how Google indexing works, I am now able to get any site indexed within a day. I will explain how Google crawl sites, index sites and how to get your site indexed fast.

Google bots are always crawling the web looking for new content. The job of a crawler is simply, follow links, copy content, and report back to Google. Sites like Digg.com have crawlers on them 24 hours 365 days a year, following links and collecting content. A site like Digg is always getting new content from all over the web and Google wants to index this new content ASAP. I have found that crawlers usually start at Hub sites (Lager sites that have links flowing in and out) and spread out over the web by follow the links they find. They will eventually find a link to your site and crawl your pages (assuming you have a link). That is the simple explanation to how Google find sites to index.

Google indexing process is pretty complex and only Google knows the formula. What I do know is, there are many filters setup to that helps determine where sites end up in the rankings.

• Duplicate content filters: These help to rank site that copy content from other sites. I have come to realize that this filter is not very effective. It works, but have many short comings and many scraper sites will out rank the original site. Google has chosen to fix this be putting an emphasis on brand names, sites that are known to provide great content. I can see many flaws in this method, but we will have to wait and see how it goes.

• Linking Filters: These filters find sites that have unnatural linking patterns. Patterns like, thousands of links with the same anchor text, acquiring thousands of links within a short period, links from non relevant sites, link farms, paid links, links from bad neighborhood sites and many more.

• Free site Filters: While there is nothing wrong with free sites, Google knows, these are sites that webmasters can use to create a link farm. While some of these sites are trusted authority sites, there are filters in place to keep this behavior under control. Links from these sites tend to have little if and effect on ranking your site.

Like I said before there are many filters in place and this article world turn into a book if I was to list them all. You will learn more about these filters as you gain knowledge and preform your own experiments.

Getting indexed fast is a very simple method that does not require much work. Once your site is up and running, you simply have to let Google know that it exist and the way to do this is by getting link from these hubsites.

Here is how I get my sites indexed fast:

• Create a Digg account and Digg your own site.

• Create a yedda account and place your link into the about me section.

• Submit your URL to Google

• Claim your site on Technorati.

• Place a link in your forum signature

Do all of these and you could be indexed within minutes. Make sure you have a xml sitemap in place, so the crawlers will index all your pages on the first visit.