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Getting Google To Re-Index Your New Website
By Tim Gross - Internet Business Blog | January 10, 2008
A reader writes:
When I do a search for my site in google you will see that the blue text underneath the url says that it is a new site hosed by fasthosts (my hosting company). It doesn’t seemed to have picked up any of the text in the site.
What’s happened is that in between the time you registered the website name and actually put up your content, Google indexed that page, which at the time was a place-holder put up by your hosting company, and Google indexed that info.
When Google finds and indexes your website again, your real info from your actual website will be found, but first Google needs to find your website. You need to have another website linking to you so Google can find it.
Since your website is about building confidence, reply to some discussion forum posts about tips on increasing confidence, and link from those posts to your website.
That way:
- Google will find your website again through those links to your website
- You can also get visitors to your website through your discussion board posts
You can submit your website manually to Google here:
…But the general consensus is that Google will look more favorably on your website if it finds your site organically (through another site’s link) as opposed to a direct submission through that link.
Hope that helps, and best of luck to you.
PS - Quick suggestions for your website:
1) Your photo is too dark, I’d get a better quality photo to put up to look more professional
2) You listed your qualifications for being a Confidence Coach in a small box running down the left-hand site of your website. That’s important information that you’re hiding somewhat (why someone should listen to you). That info should be listed across the top of the page as the first thing your visitors see, so they instantly know you’re a credible authority they should listen to.
Tell you what, I’ll link to your website here to help Google get to your website and re-index it. Another tip for linking is that the best link to have is one with your main keywords actually in them, so I’m going to link to your website using your two-word description: Confidence Coach
(Edit: 4 days later, I checked and his “Confidence Coach” site has now been indexed by Google, problem solved)
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May 14th, 2008 at 9:08 am
You can also submit your own site to delicious, etc.