It was already seven when I clicked the ‘Publish’ button of ‘Windows Live Writer’. I had just finished giving the last touch to my first post of SEO MMO Tips blog – The Birth of SEO MMO Tips – The First Step of Starting a Blog!
It is never sufficient writing good content, publish and wait for visitors to come and enjoy! You must tell people where to find your post. Here comes the role of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
Today! in this post, I’m not going to discuss what SEO is and how to do it. I’m rather disclosing the actions I believe are responsible to make my first post indexed in Google just in four hours! Yes, four hours. It was eleven when I did a google search for site:http://seommotips.com to find my site indexed!
Search Engine Friendly URLs
After installing WordPress, the first thing I did was to beautify the post URLs. By default WordPress uses ugly URL structure such as: http://seommotips.com/?p=123. This URL is neither friendly to users nor it reaps the benefit of search engines to have keywords in URL.
I changed Permalink Settings to /%category%/%postname%/. This returns the Posts URL as http://seommotips.com/wordpress-plugins/20-essential-wordpress-plugins-of-seo-mmo-tips-blog/. This URL contains ‘category’ and ‘post title’ where the keywords are always targeted!
I don’t know if it has contributed anything to get the first post indexed in Google within four hours, but I’m sure, this will help me to have better grip of my keywords.
[Note: You can change Permalink Settings by clicking on Permalinks menu under Settings Group in your Admin Backend page.]
Ping Services
Ping services allow you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. The bigger your ping list the higher the chances of receiving traffic from those sources, so check out the list below and include it on your blog. I was helped by Imran Yousaf the owner of BlogingJunkie to compose this list of ping services:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping
You can find even longer list in List of Ping Services – a post by by Daniel Scocco.
[Note: You can add the list of ping services by clicking on ‘Writing’ menu under Settings group and then pasting the list in Update Services box of Backend Admin Page. ]
Social Media Status
We can’t ignore the prominent role of social media such as FaceBook, Twitter and blogging networks such as BlogEngage, MMOSocialNetwork, FAQPal and many more. It all depends on how much time you can invest to be active in these networks and how efficiently you can build-up and maintain relationships.
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I updated profile status message in FaceBook to inform my first post is published in this baby blog. I did it similar in Twitter too!
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Then I shared my post with BlogEngage Friends. You can see the post and help me by voting in Blogengage through Vote on this article at blogengage.com
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Similarly, MMOSocialNetwork is another powerful community of active and creative bloggers. I’d be grateful to you for voting my post Featured in MMO Social Network.
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Because the first post of my blog was a type tutorial, I can post it on FAQPal too!
Comments in Other Blogs
The last thing I’d done after I published the first post within those four hours was writing some comments in some other blogs. They were not more than six to ten blogs as I remember. I always type my real name in Name field of comment box though I know keywords are of better value because this will be published as anchor text of a link back to my site. But as a blogger, I know, the keywords as comment author name look ridiculous and degrade the beauty of that blog. So, if the blog has not implemented KeywordLuv, I don’t use my keywords.
OK, these were all. Now can you suggest which among these tasks is responsible to index my first post within four hours in Google?
Happy Blogging!
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Hi Suresh
Google indexed in four hours is some going!
I use “pretty permalinks” but that’s about all I do – need to look at your other tips.
One of the reasons I use WordPress is for its great SEO capabilities.
Each post can have its own set of keywords. On a static website you would have to add a new page to achieve that and then start messing about with links and navigation etc.
Oh well… back to your other suggestions.
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Dear Keith,
Indexed in four hours is not something extra-ordinary but getting early indexed is certainly beneficial.
Pretty permalinks do not assure early indexing, but it is the first item in to-do list for every new blog. As I discussed in post, the most important factor must be the submission my article in BlogEngage and MMOSocialNetwork. They have some good
i am new to wordpress and this information will help me, i have now beautify the post URLs of my site
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hey thanks for the links, Suresh.. is it recommended to use more than 1 ping site? I’m not sure if I will get warned for spamming if I do that.
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That what I am still trying to confirm. I’ve queried many ‘experts of the field’. I’ll update soon.
Great list of ideas. I use similar strategies and similar ping services. I never go more than 8-10 hours without getting indexed. The more your main site gets crawled the easier it becomes too. ON a blog with little content only days old it can take a while. But the bigger and more content filled you are the quicker it can get. I bet sites like cnn.com get indexed in minutes. (if that long)
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Yes Steve, there will be a number of crawlers always in blog when it is bigger. Google algorithm is smart to search for its bread!
That’s a long time man. I wrote a post on my blog and showed how I get my post indexed with 1 minute. Check the post here http://www.webmaster-success.com/index-your-articles-on-google-search/
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It must be a great experience to find the post indexed immediately you publish. I guess we dealt on bit different topics. I did not claim that my post was quickest to get indexe. Moreover, I bought a domain, setup a blog and published my first post. That post is indexed in four hours. Now these later posts are indexed pretty sooner.
in my earlier blogs…
sometimes i have seen google indexing and showing published few seconds ago!
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Thanks Shashank. That is really possible after you blog is bit old and popular. But for the fresh established blog, it would be harder to get indexed on seconds.
Bro please add a point after ping list that they should not ping desperately else Search engines may block them after their several and repeated attempts. One of my friend blogger did it & i learnt through it !
Hope so you may help those new bloggers not being flagged as Ping SPammer !
Thanks for the suggestion. That was what I was querying. And moreover, is it necessary to list multiple ping services?
I have two blogs. One of them i got indexed in 5 minutes. The other in 20 hours. I dont know why that diference of time.
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Hi Suresh,
Again it me, According to me it all about backlinks and promoting. which made google to list your post at the earliest. I have a blog which I am not running presently where I have made my first article in less than a hour, even I was surprised and did not no how it happened, when I carefully checked google then my first link was for twitter followed by my blog, which was getting indexed quickly and how this is not the case.
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This is really great news for a newly launched blog..
As far as i know its just a week that it was launched and seems to be indexed soon in the Search Engines..
Keep it up sir,
This Blogs has a great future..
Cheers
Thank you sanjeev for the inspiring words. Yes SEO MMO Tips has been two weeks old now.
Hi Suresh,
You are certainly right when it comes to using your own name when commenting on a blog (unless it is a keyword luv blog) as otherwise your comment will either not be accepted.
Since google caffeine was introduced, it is amazing the speed at which pages are indexed. I have had pages indexed almost immediately, four hours is quite a long time really.
Once you’ve updated your ping list though – if you’re a person that tends to look at a post and notice mistakes you want to fix (I am!) and do an update on the post after publish – you really need a plugin like maxblogpress’ ping optimizer so you do not re-ping the post on update. If you ping the same post more than once in under 15 minutes you can find yourself blocked from a lot of the ping services. Of course many of them are interlinked anyways and ping each other but its still better safe than sorry when your wanting maximum eyes on your site I always figure.
Kimberly
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Thanks Kimberly for your good input. I appreciate the knowledge you share.
My first post was come out after 12 hours… Wll, I’m just not lucky anymore
Wow, I didn’t know that this Comment Luv stuff could be so effective. Thanks for sharing your story.
I have been thinking about the effects of updating and re-pinging as well. I think it is something we over look.
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That’s awesome, but i notice sometimes it is indexed in some seconds, minutes, and hours.
I hope you have some ping optimizer, i use cbnet ping optimizer, that will control and hold pinging automatically.
Especially me, who is always editing my published post here and there, it would be disaster whenever i edited and it is pinged.
Be careful with pinging.
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Thanks for adding the alert. Yes Kimi, I’m using cbnet ping optimizer. It requires to edit and update post quite often.
Hi!
I still don’t get it! what’s the purpose of having Google Index?
Once you succeed to get your page indexed on Google, then only you can expect your posts to be listed in search results. If no posts are indexed, the people who are searching for information you provide is never displayed them and you won’t get any traffic from search engine. That proves the purpose of Google Index.
Thanks Armil for query. Please feel free to discuss.
You got indexed in your blogs in just 4hours may be because your a little bit old. But if your old enough then you can get it in just a few seconds like mine it takes a long long hours to get index.
Thanks a lot for sharing. I learned a lot of ideas in your post.
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You are right …….. (please use your real name, I’m installed keyword luv man!) I’m talking about a fresh domain indexed for its first post. Once the blog gets quite some traffic and you’ve submitted sitemap and feeds, it may be the matter of few seconds.
Thanks a lot for the reply. I fully understand now about index of blogs. By the way Im sorry that I forgot indicate my name in the keyword I used. It’s Armil@ online advertising.
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I use similar strategies and similar ping services. I never go more than 8-10 hours without getting indexed. The more your main site gets crawled the easier it becomes too. ON a blog with little content only days old it can take a while. But the bigger and more content filled you are the quicker it can get.Once you succeed to get your page indexed on Google, then only you can expect your posts to be listed in search results
That’s it. Without indexing we can’t expect the searchers will find our site in search results. With the help of some ping services and some back links from great social network sites makes it really possible. Thanks for your comment.
Jeez Suresh, just discovered keywordluv this morning. Did a search and found your review. Truth be told, I was expecting to find a plug-in that has been around for 1+ year … because that’s how long it usually takes for me to discover new developments lol
Thanks for your review!
Keyword is really lovely to anybody willing to link their keywords without hiding their face. I love to talk to my readers directly, not behind some keywords or blog name. So this makes both of us happy. I can say Thank you Eddie!
Thanks for the list of pinging services. I notice that some of them are no longer available, do you have an updated list?
Celebs has a great list of 68 ping services, but I wonder if we really do need all of them? You can find her post at http://hubpages.com/hub/Latest-Updated-Ping-List-For-Wordpress-Blogs
I need a service like this on my site. This system works only on blogs or institutional sites as well?
Great tips! I’ll be trying them in the future. One thing I would add is to get a link on an established site right away. This usually speeds up indexing – especially if the link is contextual.
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That’s very correct Lisa. Thanks for your input.
I’ve been using pingomatic. thanks for the list, I have now alternatives.
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This is actually very common with sites. My site (in the link above) had it’s newest post indexed within the first hour that I put it up. If your site is updated regularly, and your sitemap priorities are set accordingly, Google will trust your site more and crawl it very often. This is also true for my title tags, which I changed almost every day for a while trying to find a good combination of words.
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That’s true. Thank you Travis for your comment.
For good rankings I agree that it is really important to put your keywords into your customized permalinks structure URL. Personally, I suggest to use between three and five keywords. With a slightly longer URL you can pick up some additional traffic. However, if you have to few keywords you’ll have a hard time ranking and with too many keywords you page may not be liked by the major search engine.
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Thank you (Hey I have keywordLuv enabled in this blog and you can use your name@your keywords to have good anchor text. Let me call you by your name dude!) for sharing your experience. I agree with you!
Pinging is so heavily underestimated by most bloggers/internet marketeers. It’s especially important to ping frequently, and try to ping the most relevant services
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You are right Billy. This is often less talked topic and many new bloggers have not learned it yet.
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Nice experienced in just 4hrs it has been indexed. Thanks for sharing your experienced here.
HI..Thanks for your blog post. I was searching for the same.
Nice experience man , its really good.I particularly like the section. Thanks for the nice post.
It’s a good feeling once you notice your website content being indexed by Google within 4 hours naturally (without having to ping any service). That’s when you really know your blog is getting more authoritative.
I just use a “vanilla” install of WordPress and find that it takes care of everything I need. For example if I make a post (usually one of decent length and content) and I find it indexed and ranking within 24 hours.
Thank you paul for the comment and sharing your experience. WordPress Rocks!
Great techniques of Search Engine Optimization. I appreciate your post! It would really help a lot of people who is working online!
Thank you Jemelo.
As blogs is one way to make money in online business. It is important to have a more improvise application so that you will monetize it more.
Well as far as I know WordPress plugins would be a very big help of this. It is proven to be effective.
By the way thanks a lot for sharing your tips to us. I gathered lots of information to it.
Thank you Armil for your views and the time to comment. I do appreciate.
There is a lot of conflicting search engine optimization information available, especially when it comes to trying to beat the natural ranking systems and having your blog rank high in Google right from the start.
While it’s possible to make a blog and have it indexed almost straight away, most people go about doing so with a poor overall strategy for success.It’s very much possible to be indexed by Google in 24 hours or less.
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HI..Thanks for your blog post.i found your blog, its really good.I particularly like the SEO friendly URL section.thanks for such a nice post
In 4 hours it’s a very good think for your seo. Il will try to do the same things.
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For some reason, my latest blog post has not been indexed in Google after about 1 day. My initial blog post, as well as test posts were indexed almost instantly, in minutes after publishing. I am not sure why Google isn’t indexing my blog post right away anymore. What could I have done to change this? Or is Google just having issues right now?
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Personally, I’ve had great results getting sites and posts indexed and ranked with minimal efforts. I find that just a few inbound links usually do the trick.
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It is so nice to see Blog posts like this. giving useful information to everyone. sharing its knowledge to help somebody. keep it up!
Thanks for the informative article. This could help a lot to make perfect seo services. Newbies should go here and read the techniques. Many of seo service providers failed to do their work due to lack of knowledge. They must learn the right campaign strategies for this field.
This is really great news for a newly launched blog.
Thanks for the informative article. This could help a lot to make perfect seo services.
So you have take a long time to make your readers happy. They will certainly glad to read this post.
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I always find myself wanting to check the search engines after a new post and see how long it takes before I get indexed. I have noticed on my sites with Google adsense I get indexed much faster. One thing I like to do when I create a new website is go to the major search engines and manually submit my new site. It does not take more than a minute and they index it rather quickly.
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The best way to get indexed fast – which have worked fine for me – is pinging, as you mention. It takes almost no time to get indexed if you ping a lot if different sites and networks. Great article due. The social status is one thing I have’nt tried. Will do that to se if it index my sites even faster
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I read this article very useful and more informative..
i get more idea..thanks for ur good work and keep updating..
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Great techniques of Search Engine Optimization. I appreciate your post! It would really help a lot of people who is working online!
Thanks for the list of pinging services. This is really great news for a newly launched blog.
Thanks for the great tips. I’ll be trying them in the future.
Only 4 hours for a Google index!?!?!
That’s unbelievable! It took me a few months to have all of my pages indexed (despite having sitemaps).
I especially like your list of Ping services, thanks for providing them! As soon as I get some free time, I’m going to get to work on that list!
I guess it is due to the ping services and the social networks where I was already active. They helped me to get indexed very soon for the new blog with one post.
I find recently that a new post gets indexed really quick, sometimes in less than one hour! my blog is PR4 so I guess that helps but the thing that really makes the difference (I think) is that feeding my rss to twitter. I have also found that whereas a year ago I’d watch a post climb in the google rankings over one month or so – they now seem to start high and drop for a month before climbing up again. I think this might also be due to twitter type links to a post.
I’m going to conduct an experiment with multiple twitter accounts to see if this has any effect.
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Thanks Polly for your input. Yes these days it appears new posts got ranked higher until it is settled down to its proper place. This is fair evaluation in my view because search engines can judge the participation, visit duration and bounce rate to determine whether the page really deserves ranked higher.
4 hours is pretty freaking good!
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That’s great, you don’t even need a sitemap anymore.
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woah…4 hours…??that was fast! Guessing from the comments ahead of me, it is not something to be wondering about since you use the KeywordLuv, and plus, I think ping did the trick and the SEO, moreover, you shared your own experience on how to get to the top. As they say, “Experience is the best teacher.”
That’s true Karla, “Experience is the best teacher”. Its been more than six months I wrote this post and now discovered lot other facets of SEO. I am successful to index my new blog Bivori.co in much shorter time. SEO is not that hard to optimize your blog, just you need to know some basic ideas and some good tools.
Wow! Your post got Google indexed just in four hours That’s absolutely incredible. I never thought it could passively happen to me.
Now, the posts don’t take hours to get indexed in Google after I’ve joined BlogEngage RSS Program. As it submits to 5 blogger’s network and with link back from there, it helps a lot to get indexed almost instantly. Really ping and back links from good sites boosts your SEO visibility.
Just in four hours? Wow that’s super amazing. You are really a great seo expert. Anyway, thanks a lot for sharing your tips and ideas.
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Hi tessastuart,
I don’t think I’m SEO Expert but the networks like BlogEngage and ping services along with WordPress blogging on my own domain makes it much easier to get indexed sooner!
I agree with all that and would like to add that installing the xml sitemap plugin helps also, it submitts your sitemap on updates.
Very true Ragab, thank you for peeping in!
Ha?… Just for four hours? Getting my post indexed in google for four hours I think is a myth.
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Now I believe, its blogengage. You publish your post and then submit to BlogEngage. It will be indexed almost immediately. Wonderful service.
Another great tool to ping an article is to use pingler.com.
It’s a tool that take the url you input, and submit it to different ping services.
Try it
Massimo
Thank you for the input. Appreciate.
nice post plus nice list.
Ping services are really great to help you getting indexed .
It´s also a nice technique to bookmark some of the ping-queues to force search engines to your site.
I’ve learnt some new stuff from your page today. Definitely coming back for more…good site!
the last seminar i went to on how to make use of twitter and what twitter is ,serve as an eye opener to me and i have seen the revolution of twitter am no more under rock.
Thanks for the post – I am always on the lookout for new techniques especially to do with social side of things (at which I am rubbish!).
nIce articLe. . There is a lot of conflicting search engine optimization information available. but I have been thinking about the effects of updating and re-pinging. .
Some great tips here, wish I found it a bit earlier. Do you think pinging is still necessary? I’m starting to think maybe not. I’m doing at experimenting of my own right now, but I’ll definitely incorporate some of your findings in it.
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I think it’s not too difficult to get indexed. All you have to do is get the URL of the page you want indexed, then go to pingfarm.com and ping Google to index your website, or just submit to any social bookmarking site.
You are very right Usman. I was talking in the context of getting indexed my first post on this blog when it was just started.
That is friggin inpressive I must say. Another source to add to your list that you may or may not have. do a search in goolge for ismysiteindexed(dot)com.
Really white hat and a great method..
Great article Suresh
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Thank you Darren for you input. I’ll certainly check that.
ahh.. great blog, great writer.. much potential, learned something new today.. will subscribe for more of update from your sir.
Thank you Christopher. Hope to discuss more with you.
Good entry. It’s very important to have good and quality content but you need to have it indexed as soon as possible
Thanks for all the ping services.
Always helpful to have.
4 hours isn’t bad! How many inlinks had you built to get it indexed that quickly and how often was the site crawled before that? Or was it a brand new domain?
Yes it was a brand new domain and a new post.
These tips are very good for the web page to be indexed as soon as possible, this is increasingly important as a way to optimize a website.
thanks!
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I would like to thank Suresh Khanal for their valuable advices about seo, they were very usefull.
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Thank you Jack.
Very interesting post. The list of ping services is really helpful. I am new to blogging and didn;t really get what pinging was but this post helped me out a lot. Thanks.
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Hrm. I tried that category-first-then-post set up on the permalinks, and it gives me a warning about it hurting my site’s performance. Is this still do-able, or do you suggest a different set up these days?
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If you have keywords in category name, there’s nothing to worry to use category in URL structure. Be alert, if you change URL structure you’ll face a heavy loss as now all the posts are new without any backlink
Good stuff, the 4 hour time is a result of good SEO practices that you have listed.
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Thank you Talha. I found the blogging networks really useful to get indexed quickly.
I will be putting this into practice soon for a website I am working on.
It could potentially make for a great case study.
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You can get you’r blog’s or articles you have written to boost the seo of your clients picked up extremely quickly especially if you have a good twitter follow base.
I have found of late that you start of well and then you slowly drop in the index to your resting place. Before it was the other way round. I can see why this is better though.
Ok, I know that pinging is a good practice, but is it dangerous to submit a url to many sites?
At the moment, I’m using pingler . com as a good service to ping multiple site with one click!
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I have also started feeding my rss feed on one of my sites to twitter and have seen an increase in the serps. I think that the search engines are going to start relying more on social sites as time goes on. The big problem they are faced with is how to prevent spammers from abusing the system.
Nice tips you got.you can also increase you chances of getting your blog post index within an hour by performing this tips: add your site to webmaster too(google, bing etc) and also add your sitemap too, give your post a unique meta tag description, ping your blog regularly using pinging service like pingoat and pingomatic, always add your new post to bookmarking service.chawww
Hello! I had not ever thought of or heard of the Ping services. If they really do inform google and others that my blog is updated… it could work wonders. Thank you!
Yes Jim, it is working like that for ages
Hey Suresh
Getting indexed in just four hours is really a thing.A lot more thing are involved in this apart from quality content. We have recently started a blog and I am surely gonna follow these tips and hope it works out well for us.
I feel the update given on social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter was the key to the post being indexed in four hours.
I am so amazed by how fast you were able to have your site indexed in just a mere 4 hours at that. How you managed to do it is something really great and I am thankful for your generosity in discussing it openly with us.
I usually do the same as you plus I submit my articles to social aggregators like digg, stumbleupon etc, its not about the traffic that you will get from those websites but about creating links… cheers