To get the search engines racing across to your website, we are going to employ a technique that blogs all over the word use on a daily basis.

Pinging!

It’s a silly sounding name, but it basically means it’s a way for one website to tell another website that its content has been changed or added to.

We are going to use 3 different pinging services (both 100% FREE) that will do the job very well for us.

Make sure you have read part 1, part 2 and part 3 before reading this section

1.Ping O Matic (http://www.pingomatic.com)

Pingomatic.com was one of the original ping servers that in turn notifies about a dozen or more other web sites that a website has new or updated content on it.

2.Pingoat.com (http://www.pingoat.com)

Pingoat is a newer ping server system that does a similar job to pingomatic but does notify other sites as well.

3.Pingler.com (http://www.pingler.com)

Pingler.com is one the newest ping servers to hit the web. They ping 90+ different websites, including Google, Yahoo and MSN directly.

So let’s start with www.pingomatic.com and show how easy it is to ping a website. The others, although looking different, all work on the same principal. So if you know how to use one, you then know how to use all of them.

Say for example you have made a post of Digg.com, and you now want to ping it…

So for our example, let’s say you have just written the following post on Digg

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Didn_t_Make_It_To_The_Inauguration_Just_Pretend_You_Did

We are only going to use this as an example, nothing else.

So we copy the full URL of the post, and head on over to pingomatic.com

Put a title in for the ping, then the full URL of the Digg post.
Leave the RSS URL blank (or the default value of http://)

Then click the services you want to use, I suggest selecting all of them, and then hit the “Send Pings” button.

Once this is complete, then move onto the next social book marking site and, as they say in the TV ads, its simply a process of “wash, rinse and repeat”.

It’s that simple.

All you are doing with this process is getting links to your website and telling the search engines to visit these links and come visit your website.

Conclusion

I have tried to make this set of blog posts as “to the point” as possible and I have discussed the methods and strategies that I regularly use to get any website I create indexed in the search engines.

Do bear in mind that sometimes the search engines can be “fickle” and not behavior normally. So sometimes you can get a site indexed with a few hours and other times it may take a few 4-5 days before it will appear.

So, all you have to remember is to:

1.Get Links to your website (I have given 35 places to get links from)
2.Ping the links
3.See how fast you can get your site indexed.

Of course, this won’t guarantee you the coveted #1 search engine position, but at least you can have your site in the search engines and working for you.

Getting a better ranking position is for another blog post.

To Your Online Success!

Bruce

To get any website indexed and listed in the search engines you need two (2) major ingredients in the recipe.
1.Having enough content on the site for the search engine to figure out what your website is about.

2. Having a way for the search engines to even find your site and decide to even bother to visit it.

Make sure you have read Part 1 of this guide before readining this part.

Part 1:
I’m not going to go into a detailed explanation of website content, but I just want to say that your website must have enough text content, with your main keywords spread through the text.

Remember search engines can’t read images and videos. So a website with lots of pictures/videos on it and very little text will rarely if ever get indexed and appear in the search engines. So make sure you have enough text based content on your site.

Part 2:
This is the area that this post covers.

The best way for a search engine to find your site is via a link on another site -  preferably a website with high authority that gets visited by the search engines regularly – if possible dozens of times a day.

Then we need to tell the search engines to visit the links on these authority sites and then they will visit your site.

So this is how we are going to do this:

1.Get  5 to 10 one-way links on high PR social bookmarking sites (I’ll show you which ones)
2.Tell the search engines to visit these links , by pinging the links on the sites
3.Watch your site get indexed in the search engines in the next few days!!

It’s that easy, so let me show you which sites to get links from and how to ping your sites.

I’ll cover that bit part 3..

Read part 1 here first

But what most bloggers fail to realise is that their blog is creating duplicate content without them even knowing it.

So what is the duplicate content penalty?
The “duplicate content penalty” is a filter or penalty that is thought to be applied by search engines (such as Google, Yahoo etc) to duplicate that it deems to be a duplicate.

So the more unique your content is the better your website will perform in the search engines.
You may be saying, “that’s all fine and dandy, but I write all my own content, so I should be safe!”
Wrong!!!

Your blog might be generating duplicate content without you even knowing its happening!
Let me show you how this might be happening:

1. The same content on front/index page as well on its individual post page.
You might be showing the last X number of posts on your front page, but that same content exists on its own post pages..
Solution: To fix this, only display an excerpt on the front page for each blog post.
This can solve your problem of duplicate content on homepage.
2. Archive or Category Pages and Individual Post Pages Showing the Same Content:
Because your blog allows visitors to access information via category and date pages, it will show the same information.
For example :
www.yourblog.com/2009/07/some-post-name
www.yourblog.com/some-category/some-keyword
Serious duplicate content issue here.
Solution : Modify your robots.txt file, so that the search engines do not index certain parts of your blog.
Here’s a sample robots.txt file that can help :
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/trackback/$
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: /wp-content/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /trackback/
Disallow: /feed/
Disallow: /comments/
Disallow: /page/
Disallow: /date/
Disallow: /category/
Disallow: /archive/
Disallow: /rss/

3. Allowing both www and non-www version of your blog to show content:
This is a common one for a lot of bloggers.
They allow content to show for www.yourblog.com/somepost/ as well as yourblog.com/somepost/
To you and me they look like the same domain, but to a search engine, they are not.
Two separate domains, with the same content on it.
Solution: Download and install the Preference plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/enforce-www-preference/

This, according to the plugin makers will do the following :
“Preference enforces your yes-www or no-www preference as defined by your Blog URL setting in ‘Options – General.’
If you have http://example.com/, people who visit any WordPress-served URL staring with http://www.example.com/ will be redirected to the no-www version.
If you have http://www.example.com/, people who visit any WordPress-served URL staring with http://example.com/ will be redirected to the yes-www version.
The plugin will also strip off any hanging redundant /index.php”

4. URLS with and without Trailing Slash:
This is similar to #3, in that to us mere humans the pages look exactly the same, but to a search engine they are completely seperate.
I think the search engines are coming to grips with this, but just to be certain, lets make sure there is no confusion.

So, for example:
www.yourblog.com/somepost/ is not the same as www.yourblog.com/somepost

Solution : Again, a wordpress plugin called “Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin” saves the day.
Get it at:

http://scott.yang.id.au/code/permalink-redirect/

5. Duplicate Content in Your Blog RSS Feeds:
This is another issue most bloggers never think of.
www.yourblog.com/2009/07/somepost/
www.yourblog.com/2009/07/somepost/feed/
A WordPress Blog post feed is a duplicate of post content, so if Google is indexing the RSS feed, it may end up putting your website pages in the supplkemental index and leave your RSS feed in the main index.
Solution:
There is a WordPress plugin that can fix this.
Get it here www.seologs.com/wordpress/wordpress-duplicate-content-cure/
According to the plugin creator it does the following :

“Duplicate content cure is a very simple, yet effective SEO plugin that prevents search engines from indexing wordpress pages that contain duplicate content, like archives and category pages.

It does this by adding the noindex,follow meta tag on the problem pages.”

So, using the above blog suggestions and plugins, you can make your blog a lot more seo friendly and get a lot more pages indexed in the search engines.

This technique works so well that I have had GoogleBot (Google’s own spider) hit a newly developed website with 2-1/2 minutes of launching the site..

Not bad hey!!

The technique is very simple, and all we are doing is borrowing a technique that bloggers use every day, except its all automated for them so they don’t even think about it..

It called “pinging”

To do it for a static website simply go to :

www.PinGoat.com (funny name, great FREE tool)

Then at the onscreen form, simply type in your websites name, and full URL (remember to include the “http” bit) and then hit the submit button.

PinGoat.com will then “ping” dozens of other ping servers all for you. The search engines index these ping servers hunderds, if not 1000′s of times a day, looking for new blog posts.

So once your “pings” go out, within a few minutes one or more of the major search engine bots is visiting your website.

Of course, juts because a search engine visits your website it doesn’t imply that the your site will start to appear in their listing. This is a seperate process that can take either days or up to a week before your site is found in the search engines.

At least you now know how to get the search engines to your new website quickly and easily.

Of course, like all FREE search engine optimization tools, please don’t abuse this and try to ping every couple of seconds or minutes. This won’t make them come any quicker and you are likley to get your IP address banned form the ping servers. So use this amazing FREE service responsibly and properly.

Another ping server worth visiting is :

www.PingOMatic.com

To find other just search Google, or you can post your favorite list here as a comment.

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Once we have a website up and running, we need to make sure that all visiting search engines can access all the pages we want them to look at.

Sometimes, we may want search engines to not index certain parts of the site, or even ban other SE from the site all together.

This is where a simple, little 2 line text file called robots.txt comes in.

Robots.txt resides in your websites main directory (on LINUX systems this is your /public_html/ directory), and looks something like the following:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

The first line controls the “bot” that will be visiting your site, the second line controls if they are allowed in, or which parts of the site they are not allowed to visit…

If you want to handle multiple “bot”, then simple repeat the above lines.
So an example:

User-agent: googlebot
Disallow:

User-agent: askjeeves
Disallow: /

This will allow Goggle (user-agent name GoogleBot) to visit every page and directory, while at the same time banning Ask Jeeves from the site completely.
To find a “reasonably” up to date list of robot user names this visit http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active/html/index.html

Even if you want to allow every robot to index every page of your site, it’s still very advisable to put a robots.txt file on your site.
It will stop your error logs filling up with entries from search engines trying to access your robots.txt file that doesn’t exist.

For more information on robots.txt see, the full list of resources about robots.txt at http://www.websitesecrets101.com/robotstxt-further-reading-resources/

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