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How long for Google indexing on a brand new site/domain?

by SavvyScarlett
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Hi everyone! I searched the forum but couldn't find a definitive answer on this, so any advice would be greatly appreciated!

I created two websites this past weekend on brand new domains, and I used some of the backlink sources from Angela Edward's fantastic WSO to nudge along the indexing process (I did about 10 high PR backlinks per site). I'm coming up on a week now that the sites have been completed and they've yet to show up in Google when I do a search for the URL.

I know it's too early to be concerned but I'm just excited and anxious to get these sites indexed, now that I've finally broken out of the "information addiction" phase! :-) Any insights on how long this process usually takes? As I mentioned, these are new domains, and I'm using self-hosted Wordpress with the All-In-One SEO add on and a highly optimized template.

Cheers!
Scarlett
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Kingston
    As well as high PR links I also recommend that my clients and students do 3 things:

    1. Write an article and submit it to Ezinearticles as soon as the site has 1 page/post, then build it out as you wait for approval.

    2. Digg a post.

    3. Submit your RSS to feed sites such as Feedagg.

    Doing this most sites (esp WP blogs) get indexed in under a week and sometimes a couple of days.

    All you need is 1 post to start all this.

    I have clients with sites that are months old and are not indexed, and using this gets them indexed in no time at all.

    You gotta 'tickle' Google in a few places - like rubbing my dog's belly, sometimes she wants her ears rubbed

    Good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author Gog
    Have you submitted your new website sitemap to Google yet you can also visit www dot google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl and submit your site directly to google. It should only take a few days for your site to get indexed especially if you already have a few quality links pointing to your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dave Kingston
      Originally Posted by Gog View Post

      Have you submitted your new website sitemap to Google yet you can also visit www dot google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl and submit your site directly to google. It should only take a few days for your site to get indexed especially if you already have a few quality links pointing to your site.
      I don't (and most IM'ers) recommend doing this for ANY new site.

      Google likes other sites to 'recommend' your site thru links pointing to it. They don't like you asking to be included.

      it's like the kid that nobody wants on their team at school who keeps saying 'pick me, pick me'.

      Google kinda see's it as if people are saying 'go visit this site (ie a link) then you must have something to offer.

      If you ask them to come see you, they'll get around to it but in their own time, which could be months.

      I don't recommend it and have NEVER submitted a site that way.

      I put up a WP blog with 1 post on Sunday and post dated 10 posts - I now have 11 pages indexed (some posts, a contact page, an about page and a privacy policy page) and the 1st showed up on Tuesday.
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  • Profile picture of the author Arania
    You have done a lot for your site's SEO, from my personal experience it should not take more than 24 hours for your site to be indexed. Also like Gog said, did you submit your site to google(.)com/addurl ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Shakul
    Well, if you want to get your site indexed then do this:

    1. Make a blog at Warrior Forum blogs about your site and include your site url, I read a thread yesterday that doing so the persons site got good SE rankings, it will also help the SE spiders to come to know about your site.

    2. Post an add at the Craigslist and include your site url.

    Doing this will get you indexed within FEW HOURS, it will take maximum of 24hrs.

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  • Profile picture of the author Easy Cash
    Submit it to Digg - Go to bed - get up and it will be indexed........
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    • Profile picture of the author SavvyScarlett
      I really appreciate the replies so far, everyone!

      Dave, I heard the same thing about submitting the URL to Google, so I've stayed far, far away from that! I have sitemaps for both sites and each one has 3 - 5 pages.

      Shakul, I'd rather not link my sites to Warrior Forum since they're niche sites and all. Also from personal experience, Craig's List users are pretty quick to flag posts that contain active URLs, since I guess this is against the TOS now? I tried it a few times last year and my posts never lasted more than a few hours.

      That's a good idea about Digg and Ezine Articles, I will give them both a try. I'm just itchin' to start seeing some traffic come in -- the sooner the better, since I've read several times that you should have steady, consistent traffic trickling in before you add the AdSense code. Any other tips, Warriors extraordinaire?
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      • Profile picture of the author Dave Kingston
        Originally Posted by SavvyScarlett View Post

        I really appreciate the replies so far, everyone!

        Dave, I heard the same thing about submitting the URL to Google, so I've stayed far, far away from that! I have sitemaps for both sites and each one has 3 - 5 pages.

        Shakul, I'd rather not link my sites to Warrior Forum since they're niche sites and all. Also from personal experience, Craig's List users are pretty quick to flag posts that contain active URLs, since I guess this is against the TOS now? I tried it a few times last year and my posts never lasted more than a few hours.

        That's a good idea about Digg and Ezine Articles, I will give them both a try. I'm just itchin' to start seeing some traffic come in -- the sooner the better, since I've read several times that you should have steady, consistent traffic trickling in before you add the AdSense code. Any other tips, Warriors extraordinaire?
        Indexing and traffic are two very different beasts. There are a gazzillion posts on here about traffic generation and starting with article marketing isn't a bad place to begin.

        Search the forum, look for multiple people using a tactic and trial it. Usually best to stay away from the 'weird' ways until you are savvy (pun not intended )enough to see if it's just BS or a new technique.

        As for Adsense...def get regular unique visitors before adding it. Start with image ads from CPA networks or CB etc then trial Adsense and then use which ever makes you the most money.
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  • Profile picture of the author joyfulwraps
    These are all fabulous suggestions! I just applied a couple of them myself.
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  • Profile picture of the author SavvyScarlett
    I think I have a good handle on the traffic thing -- I spent all weekend reading eBooks and blogs and forum posts (oh my!) and I'm pretty confident that I can do well in the SERPs -- that's why I'm so anxious to get in 'em already! :-D

    I'm off to give Digg a try. And then I probably *should* go to sleep already. This forum is way too addictive!
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    • Profile picture of the author John Sullivan
      Hi Scarlett,

      Assuming you have the all in one set up correctly for optimized links etc and have a google site map submitted, just bookmark a post or two in the most popular sites digg etc and submit the RSS feed to feedage.com and feedagg.com There are many more but if you do that you should be indexed in less than 24 hours.

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  • Profile picture of the author SavvyScarlett
    Hi John!

    I will definitely give that a try next time I set up a site. The 3 sites I was concerned with finally got indexed, but two of them have an alert in Google Webmaster Tools that says that while my site IS indexed, "pages from your sitemap were not crawled" or something to that effect. I've triple-checked the validity of the sitemaps (they were all created via the Wordpress Google Sitemap add-on) and they're all working. Any ideas on that one?

    Cheers!
    Scarlett
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  • Profile picture of the author DavidTheMavin
    Edit, nm.

    Not sure why you'd get that message? Have you checked your errors in Webmaster tools as well?
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    • Profile picture of the author SavvyScarlett
      Originally Posted by DavidTheMavin View Post

      Not sure why you'd get that message? Have you checked your errors in Webmaster tools as well?
      Hi David!

      There are no errors in Webmaster Tools at all -- just the little alert message saying that pages in the sitemap are not being indexed. My guess is that it's just a fancy way of saying that the homepage is being indexed, but the supporting pages have not yet been crawled. The websites in question only have about 3 - 4 content pages apiece thus far, so when I add more, hopefully the sitemap crawling will kick into gear!

      Scarlett
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  • Profile picture of the author DavidTheMavin
    Is their duplicate content on your sites? I've never seen that message before is all.
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  • Profile picture of the author SavvyScarlett
    Actually, I was incorrect about the number of pages per site (forgot about the "contact" and "disclaimer" pages). So the site with 5 pages of content has no duplication; the site with 6 pages of content has the most recent blog post on the home page, and it can also be accessed in full from its post page. Other than that, nothing duplicative. So it's probably an issue of not enough content yet, or Google is just taking its sweet time indexing the entire site. We'll see what happens!
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  • Profile picture of the author Scripteen
    Just linking to your website in your signature in a famous forum like this one and post a single relevant post in a fresh thread can get you indexed in an hour or two (I'm serious about that)
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  • Profile picture of the author Zeus66
    I've tested this a bunch and I've found that setting up a blog at Ebay and posting links to your sites, then ping'ing the blog URL through Pingomatic or something similar gets sites indexed very quickly.

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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Use socialmarker.com ... It will be indexed in 48 hrs or less. Also Stumble it and Reddit it. Got some friends who can stumble it also? Do it. My sites are indexed in 24 hrs.
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