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Getting posts indexed, confirming?

by CryoCrispy
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I ran across a tip that talked about posting your new articles to your web site, wait until it's indexed and then publish it out to your article directories of choice.

When you first set up your site, your landing page is generally the very first article you write. You ping the site, submit the RSS feeds, Digg it, etc. and it eventually gets indexed.

So let's say you write and post additional articles to your site, and you're using a blog format.

The URL to the new post is usually something along the format of:
hxxp://www.bluewidgets.com/2009/12/mynewpost.html

So long as your site map is setup correctly, to get the new posts indexed would all a person need to do is just re-ping the master site using something like pingler or ping-o-matic?

hxxp://www.bluewidgets.com

Let the spiders crawl them, and the new posts will get indexed at some point?

Is there a better way to do this? I believe WordPress auto-pings your new posts if it's setup right, but what if you're working with a blog system that doesn't and you want to make sure they get indexed?

I've also heard of people using micro blogging sites that are crawled a ton and usually pretty good for getting things indexed.

I tried the micro blogging indexing method several days ago and used the full URL with the year/month in the the data, but they've yet to be indexed if I type in the same URL in Google search.
#confirming #indexed #posts
  • Profile picture of the author TrafficMystic
    The easiest way I have found to get indexed quickly.. is to take all of your url's, create a customer rss feed and submit that feed to the rss directories.
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  • Profile picture of the author CryoCrispy
    How would you confirm they are indexed though? Simply typing in the URL in the search engine boxes and hitting search, if they show up in the results then they are indexed?
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  • Profile picture of the author TrafficMystic
    if you are using a particular signature or link then add a google alert and get it to send to your email..
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  • Profile picture of the author CryoCrispy
    Pretty good concept. I didn't quite understand how it would work so I did a quick google on alerts and such and ran across the following clip.

    Thanks for the tip!

    Use Google Alerts to track when Google indexes your pages
    Another nifty way to use Google Alerts, is to put a random line of text onto each of your pages when you publish them, eg: asdlkhsofieknhewioughsoeighjsoefjoief.

    Go then to the Google Alerts control panel, and put that line of text in as an item you would like to get email alerts on. Do this every time you create a new web page. Now you can use Google Alerts to track when your pages get indexed by Google. As soon as google finds your page, you get an email, now you pretty much know for certain, that your page is indexed in Google, and should be able to be found in the search results.

    If you cant seem to find your page when doing searches for the key phrase you are targeting with that page, you can make changes to the code or content, use a new random string of text, then upload the changes.

    Go back to Google Alerts, and replace the old text string with the new one, and wait for your email alert!
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  • Profile picture of the author sarah_may
    Well, the best way to get indexed quickly is to submit your rss feed to blod and rss directories and ping your blog after posting and alway makesure to post some origionla content and then it will get indexed quickly just after submitting your post.
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  • Profile picture of the author CryoCrispy
    Ran across another tip on checking to see if your pages are indexed, just in case it helps anyone else with the same questions..

    A quick trick is to go to Google and enter site:yourdomain.com into the search box. Google will return all the results they have for your website. The same trick applies for Yahoo and MSN.
    One thing I don't understand, though, is although by typing in the site:... I see that all my pages are indexed, if I type in quotes a sentence from any of my most recently indexed pages it doesn't return the results in the SERPs.

    So I don't know if it is truely indexed, partially indexed, or what the deal is. I can type in a phrase from my originally indexed landing page (2-3 months ago), however, and it will come up in the SERPs.
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