The Full Guide to Google Success

Welcome to the guide which will hopefully explain to you how you can achieve success in the Google Search Engine Results. It will explain how to get your website on Google at the very least, and then eventually get you higher up in the rankings.

First, setup your website. You should have done this already or how else was you expecting to do well in Google without a website?

Now, you have a (probably) new website that you want to do well in. First, let Google know about your website. You can easily do that by going to this Google Add URL and fill in the URL your website, maybe a comment if you like, fill in the confirmation code and then submit. Google say that it may take up to 6 weeks to index it, but we’ll hopefully get that down.

So Google is slightly aware of your website now. Well, of your homepage anyway. Next, we’ll try to make them index as many pages as possible. To do this, we shall create a sitemap. If you don’t know what one of these is, its basically a list of all the URL’s of your website which Google can read and index. It helps Google to find more of your pages, which of course helps you. I recommend using an Auto-Sitemap Creator. The best one that I know of is GSiteCrawler. Its highly recommended for small and large websites, and it doesn’t take that long either. Google accepts sitemaps in XML Format, so make sure you create one in this format. Now that you have a Sitemap, you need to let Google know about it. You need access to Google Webmaster Tools. Login to your Google Account which you should hopefully have. Then, add your website, and then add a sitemap. You may need to verify the website, so follow the steps that it gives you. Afterwards, wait for 24 - 48 hours for them to review the sitemap.

Part of SEO is a Robots.txt file. This text file is what Search Engines like Google look for. It can give indications to Google about what you want them to do. For example, you could, for whatever reason, block certain Search Engines from visiting your website. You could also tell Google how often you want them to visit. Again, you could use a Robots Text Generator for this too. I recommend Invision Graphics Robots.txt Generator. Robots.txt can also stop certain directories from being indexed, crawl delay etc… Once you’ve generated one, you can upload it via FTP to the Root of your webspace, so it is accessible via http://www.your-url.com/robots.txt . Also, if you add the code below into your Robots.txt file, Search Engines will be able to find your Sitemap more:

Sitemap: http://www.your-url.com/sitemap.xml

Thats all you have to do for a Robots.txt file. The Search Engines should find this file automatically without you having to submit it to them.

Now if you own a blog, you can use this quick way to get indexed. You could visit Feedburner Ping and input the URL to your Blog Feed. It should help you out, and make this whole process quicker.

Now while you’re waiting for Google to take action and index your site, you can start to take action to try getting your site high up for when it does get indexed.

You’re going to need to get backlinks onto your site. Generally, sites with higher PageRank do higher in Google, so you should do anything possible to get a PageRank. To get easy backlinks, you could simply put the URL in your signature in popular forums and just post often, but of course these backlinks aren’t worth that much. What you need is links that are related to your websites content, and hopefully have a PageRank. Its these sorts of websites that can help your website. Although you may think its difficult to find these and then to get the links from them, but actually it isn’t that difficult. If you use Google Blog Search and search for a keyword related to your content, you should (unless your search was too specific) get a long list of blogs. You can simply visit these, read the blog post and make a sensible blog comment related to the post that will get the comment accepted. Put your website URL in the website box, and there you go. Another backlink. If you keep this up, you’ll eventually have enough backlinks to get you started.

Social Bookmarking is another thing you could be getting on with while you’re waiting for Google to index you. Great sites like del.icio.us and StumbleUpon could get you some traffic and backlinks too. Although this is mensioned in most of the tutorials, this will give a more in-depth look at them. Create an account on StumbleUpon especially, install the toolbar to “Stumble” websites and then Stumble your own website. If you can get a few friends to do the same thing, it can be effective. The best way is to get them to put tags and reviews on these stumbles too because these tags can help you be visible on the StumbleUpon search. You could probably exchange Stumbles with others too. One place to do that is Digital Point. Once you get a lot of Stumbles, your site may be under “Featured Sites” in big keyword searches. Don’t forget to stumble other peoples websites too, and try to get more friends on Stumbleupon because it may help get a PageRank on your actual profile and may get you a better “reputation” on the bookmarking website.

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Hopefully Google should have indexed your website after you’ve been keeping this up. If you’re unsure of whether they have or not, search on google for:

site:url.ext

For example, to check the amount of pages indexed by Google for siteseo.org, you would do:

site:siteseo.org

It will then display all of the links that have been indexed. Hopefully, the numbers will keep on increasing for your website because the more pages indexed, the more exposure you’re going to get and thats why its important to keep on updating a blog so you can keep increasing this number.

If they have indexed, you’ll probably find that no matter what you search, you can’t find it on the Google Results, even if you search for the websites name. You may not experience this as you may find it, but some sites may not show up. This is to be expected, because they must have only recently found out about the website, so they’re not really going to rank it high just yet. That is what we’ll work on next.

Well you can continue the two steps that you did above - The backlinks and the social networking. Both can be very important (Especially the backlinks). You need to sort out the SEO of the website though too - This is going to play a big part of your Google Rankings, because if your SEO is a mess, you’re not going to do very well. Lets get started on SEO!

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Stumble it!