blogging and being index.

add pinging sites to blog
add posts
build backlinks
bookmark your posts
add your site to google

It took 2 days for my blog to index, google wont always index you right away, it will eventually.

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AnnaHamer

14 years ago

I need to do a site map before I do all don't I? Was going to give it a run through social bot and rss bot.

I forgot to take that stupid WP block off the first day of the blog.

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NewbiesDiary

14 years ago

Originally Posted by AnnaHamer

I need to do a site map before I do all don't I? Was going to give it a run through social bot and rss bot.

I forgot to take that stupid WP block off the first day of the blog.

I'd also add a privacy page and terms of service page.

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Jason Perez O'Connor

14 years ago

Yes, get the google XML sitemaps thing

then add it to google and show google where to find your sitemap, which if you do it with wordpress should be www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.XML

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AnnaHamer

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Jason Perez O'Connor

Yes, get the google XML sitemaps thing

then add it to google and show google where to find your sitemap, which if you do it with wordpress should be www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.XML

I haven't monetized it yet. Does that matter?

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Jason Perez O'Connor 14 years ago

Originally Posted by AnnaHamer

I haven't monetized it yet. Does that matter?

Up to you, depends on how you've planned to actually "gain" from this blog or whether it's just going to be pure content with no intent of money.

At the start it doesn't really matter about setting up ways in to which monetize your blog because traffic is scarce, but atleast plan it so that you can put some in place when traffic picks up.

You should hopefully have a newsletter in place also

I see your from the UK, didn't see where from? I'm in Northampton
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danalingga

14 years ago

Keep posting, use ping service, submit to google webmasters.

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interplay

14 years ago

Continue posting. A new post a day is good. Submit your sitemap.xml to the Google webmaster tools, add your site to Google Analytics and your feed to Google Feedburner.
This will help your site get indexed.

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bgmacaw 14 years ago

Did you check your WordPress Privacy settings? The current default is to block Google from seeing your site.
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Shoaib

14 years ago

You can keep posting or stop posting until you see your site show up in Google.. in my experience it doesn't matter.

The only thing that matters is that Google is going to index you, you just have to wait. In my personal experience, it takes a full week to 10 days for my blogs to become completely indexed in Google. That is with social bookmarking/articles/directories etc.

So far I haven't had the pleasure of being indexed in 7 and a half minutes like some on this forum claim to have been.

Also, I personally stay away from submitting my URL to Google through their submission page. I would rather let them find it on their own. I doubt it makes any difference, but to me I would just rather that Google finds my site via crawling my links on another site, rather than me the webmaster going to Google myself and asking them to crawl my site.

Another thing I've noticed is, that sometimes Google will "crawl" my new site within a matter of hours, but it will still take a full week-10 days for my pages to actually start appearing in Google.

So if you're seeing Googlebot in your logs, then it might be good if you keep posting, so when you do become indexed, Google will already think that your blog is one that's regularly updated.

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AnnaHamer

14 years ago

I am not rushed to get it indexed, I just didn't want to add new content if it wasn't going to help me rank in the SEs

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Goatboy

14 years ago

Originally Posted by AnnaHamer

I am not rushed to get it indexed, I just didn't want to add new content if it wasn't going to help me rank in the SEs

1. It usually takes mine about 5 to 7 days to get indexed.

2. In the meantime, you can post or not, it is your decision and it probably won't make a difference.

3. It makes no difference if you have monitized or not.

4. If you want to see if you can poke Google and Yahoo a bit faster, put up a new post and then go to either Digg or Propeller and set up an account and either Digg or Prop your site. The search engines seem to find you faster if you let them naturally follow a back link. Everytime I have submitted to a search engine, it has taken a couple of weeks to get indexed, when I let them find me organically I'm indexed in a few days to a week.

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Darren Tan

14 years ago

Hey Anna,

Are you using the right plugins? I usually get indexed within hours after my first post.

This is the list I'm using:

Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
Google XML Sitemaps
MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Sociable
Permalinks Moved Permanently
Tweet This

Plus submit to rss feeds and pinging using other pingers

Usually will get you indexed within a few hours

Regards,
Darren

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AnnaHamer

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Darren Tan

Hey Anna,

Are you using the right plugins? I usually get indexed within hours after my first post.

This is the list I'm using:

Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
Google XML Sitemaps
MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
Sociable
Permalinks Moved Permanently
Tweet This

Plus submit to rss feeds and pinging using other pingers

Usually will get you indexed within a few hours

Regards,
Darren

I have ackismet, not sure what that one does.
I have sociable
and seo

going to go get the other ones now. Thanks man!

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iw433

14 years ago

OK, I am going to give up one of my secrets. Write an article, 3 to 500 words. Save it in a .doc file. Select your keyword and make a anchor text using that keyword. Publish it on scrib.com. You should be index in a matter of hours. You could also ping it.

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AnnaHamer

14 years ago

Originally Posted by iw433

OK, I am going to give up one of my secrets. Write an article, 3 to 500 words. Save it in a .doc file. Select your keyword and make a anchor text using that keyword. Publish it on scrib.com. You should be index in a matter of hours. You could also ping it.

That's a nifty little trick!

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AnnaHamer

14 years ago

I can't find maxblogpress ping optimizer. Do I have to register somewhere to use it?

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Darren Tan 14 years ago

Hi Anna,

I actually do not have the problem of spam from Max Ping Optimizer because it came from a package from Jeff Johnson

Originally Posted by AnnaHamer

I can't find maxblogpress ping optimizer. Do I have to register somewhere to use it?
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- krharper 14 years ago
  
  I have found that just keeping at it will eventually pay off. Once Google does index your site, and you have updated regularly, Google will begin to index your updates very quickly. It just takes time.
  
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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

Akismet comes with the default WP download and it is their anti-spam plugin. You need to activate it in order to make it work; and for activation you need an API key that you can obtain by registering at wordpress.COM (not org!). You do NOT need to make a free blog when registering, there is an option for just getting the API Key.

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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

Re: ping optimizer > see this thread:
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ced-optin.html

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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

Re: ping optimizer > see this thread:
http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ced-optin.html

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AnnaHamer

14 years ago

Do I really need the anti spam plug-in, even though I have disabled comments?

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Istvan Horvath

14 years ago

Since the spam-bots don't really use your comment form that is visible for humans (i.e. they go around it directly to the comment posting file)... I'd say it doesn't hurt.
Otherwise, even not having visible comments on your blog you can end up with thousands of spam comments in your database.

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AnnaHamer

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Istvan Horvath

Since the spam-bots don't really use your comment form that is visible for humans (i.e. they go around it directly to the comment posting file)... I'd say it doesn't hurt.
Otherwise, even not having visible comments on your blog you can end up with thousands of spam comments in your database.

Cheers for the advice. It seems at every twist and turn of this business there are scamers and spammers lurking in the shadows.

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