Struggling To Get Social Media Indexed

by silver93350

Posted: 14 years ago 13 replies

Hello,

I currently have been doing some social media writing and have a handful of articles on various sites. However, I am looking for a good way to get these properties index.

Two questions:

What is a good way to get indexed quickly for various sites

and

How do you check?
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cdemar22 14 years ago

Are you making sure to post to social media sites that use "dofollow?" If you are posting on sites that make your links "nofollow," that could be part of your problem. I saw a thread on here that has a bunch of web 2.0 sites that are not "nofollow" - you might want to refer to that.
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Louise Green

14 years ago

Nofollow only means it doesn't pass Page Rank.. it's still valuable, at least according to Matt Cutts.

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14 years ago

Originally Posted by Louise Evans

Nofollow only means it doesn't pass Page Rank.. it's still valuable, at least according to Matt Cutts.

It's still valuable in that those links can drive traffic from the sites where they appear.

They are worthless at Google from a rankings perspective and more importantly to the OP, they are worthless at Google from a page discover perspective.

Generally speaking social media sites are good for driving traffic and that's about it. Social media Bookmarking and other social media techniques rarely add value from an SEO perspective.

Even dofollow profile links on social media sites when indexed provide very little SEO value. They generally do not allow you to include anchor text containing your URL's targeted link text, so all they do is pass your page a tiny amount of keyword agnostic PageRank. It won't help you rank better for any particular keyword. It simply increases your URLs page rank by some miniscule amount, and we all know that your URLs PR plays very little role in how that same URL ranks for a particular keyword. It's a VERY minor ranking factor compared to link text of inbound links.

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jasonl70

14 years ago

Originally Posted by DPM70

Hi Jason. I'm totally interested in how you are generating 11,000 pages in a month.

Also, the googlebot is hitting that site at a big old rate - for a month old site.

Do you have some self-sustaining, weapon of mass SEO destruction that you can unleash on us noobs by declaration of:
1) How you are doing this and
2) Does this work long-term or is this some kind of experiment in massive interstellar website construction (I'm thinking...something like the Vogons)

It sounds big, brassy and almost completely goes against what I've managed to teach myself about SEO over the past year. But I like the sound of it

The site consists of less then 10 php files, a big DB of data, and 'pretty link' style rewritting with htaccess. All the googlebot love comes soley from rss pings to pingomatic, and sitemap.xml pings to google/yahoo/ask. I started out by only releasing 10 pages live to the site - then everytime a page is visited (by spider or human), it releases another few pages of content to the site, adds them to the sitemap and rss feed, and does the rss and sitemap pings.

To kick-start it I set the site as my home page for a few days - that way everytime I opened my browser, the site would release a few more pages of content and start pinging.

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silver93350 14 years ago

yeah like gather, livejournal, multiply, vox, ect. I just want to get them indexed. I don't buy to much into the hype about nofollow.
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jasonl70 14 years ago

1) if you want to maximize your results for the amount of time spent, then it would be in your best interest to 'buy the hype about nofollow'. That doesn't mean don't go after them though - google has a pretty good idea of what a 'real' link profile should look like (from my own research most natural links to a site are in fact nofollow). I just don't invest a lot of time building content on nofollow sites compared to others.

2) I'd see how many pages the site actually has indexed. You may be shocked. For example, some popular "do follow" social bookmarking sites have only a few pages indexed in google (spurl only has 20)

3) "blog-n-ping" isn't dead Look for an rss feed for your page(s) and ping them. If google isn't blocked by the robots.txt file, it will find your page. I started a new site last month, and it has over 11,000 pages indexed in google. No backlinks at all - just pings. It averages 1,000 google bot visits a day.
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- silver93350 14 years ago
  
  Hey Jason,
  
  Thanks for the response. I just don't go after ALL dofollow links, because it looks unnatural.
  
  I am planning on putting links on a auto-blog I own and once they are indexed taking the link off . Also, I have buddy looking into using scrapebox and doing blast hoping some links stick and I get indexed.
  
  I didn't even think about the blog and ping method
  
  Always looking for news ways to get social media indexed. I have read about rss blast, but not really sure how all that works ? Anyone know?
  
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actionplanbiz 14 years ago

social bookmarking and rss feed submissions is a method i use to get whatever indexed fast, if that is the goal
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- silver93350 14 years ago
  
  Does anyone wish to share a good rss method for me to use?
  
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  eaglechick 14 years ago
  
  I also struggle to get my web 2 stuff indexed and would like to know about RSS - the best guide I found so far for RSS and describing how to use vox/livejournal etc is by Mark Dickenson - Baclink Bully - It was a WSO a while back. He really give some neat tips you can use. Just started out and haven't implemented the RSS part yet. Maybe we should "compare notes". Feel free to send me an PM.
  
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DPM70 14 years ago

Hi Jason. I'm totally interested in how you are generating 11,000 pages in a month.

Also, the googlebot is hitting that site at a big old rate - for a month old site.

Do you have some self-sustaining, weapon of mass SEO destruction that you can unleash on us noobs by declaration of:
1) How you are doing this and
2) Does this work long-term or is this some kind of experiment in massive interstellar website construction (I'm thinking...something like the Vogons)

It sounds big, brassy and almost completely goes against what I've managed to teach myself about SEO over the past year. But I like the sound of it
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- ambiz830 14 years ago
  
  Yeah I'm also interested in that Jason. I'm assuming it's a GIGANTIC site? sounds like a lot of work in a month.
  
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m100k 14 years ago

To get your properties indexed faster you can use pingler.com or pingdevice.com if you have a ton of links than you need indexed quickly.

To add an extra buffer I usually social bookmark my properties as well. I currently have my social bookmarking accounts pinged periodically so that it gets crawled regularly by google.

You need to know that not all of your backlinks are going to show up on google though. Don't worry about the number of backlinks you are seeing, as long as you are doing the work you should be good to go.
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