How to Get Your Site Listed in Google in 24 Hours or Less

Wouldn't it be nice to start seeing your site in Google's search engine results in 24 hours or less? It should be first noted that if a site is crawled but not yet indexed, the results aren't visible to search users. For example, if you enter the full domain of your site with the "http://www." and your site hasn't been listed yet, it won't show up in Google's results. When your site does get indexed, if you enter the full URL, you'll see your site listed. This listing contains the URL, the title of your website, and a description.

To get your site indexed quickly, you won't use Google's submission form (google.com/addurl.html). Using this method may take 2–6 weeks to get your site indexed.

So, what do you need to do to get your website indexed in 24 hours or less? The first step is to visit Google and enter a broad, generic keyword that's relevant to your site. This is the rare time that the broader the keyword, the better. Don't worry about trying to go for niche markets with this step, because you're going to want to have access to sites with the highest level of traffic. Once you enter the keyword, you see the Google listings. Use the "Page Rank" indicator on the Google toolbar to see what the page rank is (or you could use SEO Elite or linkVendor, but doing it right from the browser is faster).

To refresh your memory, the higher your page rank, the more websites that are linking to you. Keep an eye out for sites that have a page rank of 5 or higher (with the higher ranking being the better one). Visit each of these sites to see if they offer a link exchange. Remember, if they do they'll advertise it in the same way you did yours, through a "link to Us" web page or something similar. Look for the contact information if it's listed. If it's not listed, use the Whois utility found through domain name services or SEO Elite to find their e-mail address. Use the same methods of e-mail etiquette you learned about before and send them an e-mail asking if they're interested in a link exchange. Remember to post their links on your site first before you send out the e-mail. And don't forget that you can still purchase advertising on the resources given throughout this book.

Just make sure the site you choose has a page rank of over 5. If you advertise your site on a site with a page rank of 5, your site will get indexed in three days or less. If you advertise your site on a site with a page rank of 6, you can get your site indexed in less than 24 hours.

Jon Rognerud is a recognized authority on SEO and the author of Ultimate Guide to Search Engine Optimization, available from Entrepreneur Press. He is also the SEO columnist for entrepreneur.com, and he has spent more than 20 years creating and managing web marketing projects, including positions at online giant Yahoo!/Overture. A search engine technology he created was licensed for use on Expedia.com/Microsoft.

How Not to link to Sites That Are in a Bad Neighborhood

Basically, sites that are in a bad neighborhood are those that post on link farms, splogs, or other sites using black hat SEO techniques. Stay away from these types of sites. Do you know that if a person you're linking to posts on these types of sites, you could get in trouble with Google as well? It's unfair, but true. And don't think that because a site has a good page rank today that tomorrow it won't use black hat techniques that would mess up your site. This is why you need to keep your eye on the sites to which you link.

One way you can do this is to read the page rank bar on the Google toolbar. This is better than using linkvendor.com, because it tells you if a site has been banned, whereas linkvendor.com may not. If the page rank bar is gray, that indicates a ban. However, don't confuse being banned with having a page rank of 0. Just because a site has a 0 page rank, that doesn't mean it's linking to sites in a bad neighborhood. It could just mean that not enough time has passed for the webmaster to get the site to rank high enough in search engines to receive a higher page rank. Recently, for example, there was a proxy problem (now fixed) that erroneously returned sites with a page rank of 0 which in fact were ranked higher.

You can use SEO Elite to determine a site's page rank. To do this, you first open the program and select radio button 4. Enter the URL of one of your links, then select "Google PR" from the checkboxes. Click "OK." You're shown a report that displays the page rank for each of the web pages within the site you're linking to. Be on alert for those with a rank of 0.As you already know, this doesn't mean they're linking to bad neighborhoods, so you'll need a method to find out for sure. Now select radio button 6. Through this you can see if the site still appears in Google's search engine listings. Next, select the Google checkbox. If it returns 0, you know the site no longer appears in the search engine listings, and you should stay far away from it.

Optimize Flash Site

Attractive Flash websites are very much appealing to the human eye. Web visitors are greatly moved by interesting Flash designs. Today, the web market is over brimmed with Flash web designs.

User friendliness of Flash websites has led to its growth in the present times. Web owners are in hot pursuit to build tempting Flash work to make a marked difference among its competitors. However, it imperative that a website needs to be both user friendly as well as search engine friendly. This is where the Flash websites falls short of other web designs.

A full Flash website is not search engine friendly. The search engine robots find the Flash works very complex. These robots cannot index a Flash design like a plain text. They can only index the filenames. It, therefore, very important to note that Flash based websites rank poorly in the SERPs. Nevertheless, there some ways to search engine optimization of Flash based websites.

Ways to optimize Flash based websites

Give metadata:
It is useful to enter in metadata in Flash websites. The Meta title. Meta description and keywords much contain the significant keywords. The use of keywords is useful for the search engines

Meta title tag – The meta title consist of the relevant keywords that gives an idea of the website and the web page

Meta description tag- The meta description tag consist of the description of the website through the use of right key words

Meta keyword tag- The keywords that are used in the web page are entered in the meta keywords tag

Build separate pages with definite keywords:
Usually, Flash website consist of a single web page wherein full details of the company, products, services etc. are given. It becomes very difficult for the search engines to catch the topic of the web page. It is, therefore, suitable to employ separate pages with the right keywords that describes the website company, product, services more effectively.

Employ Macromedia Software Developer (SDK):
The Search Engine SDK comprise of an application named as swf2html. It extracts links and text from a Flash file and then places the data into an HTML file. If necessary, content must be thoroughly checked and also the replica has to be replaced. Proper use of this kit helps in optimizing Flash websites.

Off page optimization:
Effective off page optimization is the key to optimize full Flash websites. The more flexible linking strategy paves way for successful search engine optimization of Flash websites.

*Employ the anchor text in a proper way. The anchor text must consist of the significant keywords
*Inbound links are very useful in optimizing websites. The more the number of inbound links from quality websites the more the chances of better optimization
*Make use of the one way link strategy
*Comment on the other related blog posts (not Spam comment), it will help to increase popularity
*Giving out press releases about the workings of the website from time to time
* Another source of linking building is through submission of articles of the websites in various article directories and important websites
*Create and maintain separate blog under the main domain or sub domain. It is very helpful tool for optimize Flash based website
*RSS feed has also become a significant source of linking strategy. If you maintain a blog then you can syndicate blog contents as an RSS feed to the web world
*A full Flash website must register in various forums. It may post and comment on topics which will eventually help in optimizing websites.

Another way is through submission of contents in directories. However, in the recent times this has become an obsolete process