Let Making Money Online Show You How To Get Your Blog Indexed.
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In this edition of OK to Make Money Online, we need to get your site properly indexed. No one, not even Google, will guarantee you will get indexed. Because there are many unknown factors that are part of Google’s internal algorithms, we will follow best practices. Don’t worry you will most likely be indexed.
Let’s take a look at what rules we have learned so far:
1) A proper Blogger account or domain name has been set up and Blogger, WordPress or Joomla is your blog software.
2) Make sure your long tail keywords are in your title and first paragraphs.
3) You have made a proper About Page that includes your keyword(s).
4) You have copy and revised Google’s Privacy Page example or copied my Privacy Page and revised it.
5) Check that your site is verified and contains a Sitemap link in Google.
6) You have posted at least two 300-word articles on your site.
7) You have 10 tags for each article you have created.
You have multiple categories, if you blog software supports them.
9) You have informed Technorati of your blog and claimed it.
In order for someone to find you, we need to tell Google you are here and ready to receive traffic. This is where indexing comes in, so let us get started.
Now, log in to your Adsense account, the one you you created in Make Money – Adsense. Click on the “Resources” Tab. Now click on “Webmaster guidelines”. Under the heading “When your site is ready” you will see a hyperlink to addurl.html. Go ahead and click on this link.
On the page titled “Add your URL to Google,” enter your blog’s URL, making sure to add a comment and your keyword. Next, enter the squiggly letters and press the “Add URL” button. Don’t worry, if you get the squiggly letters wrong just re-enter the text when the screen is redisplayed.
Google will display a confirmation message to notify you that you did everything correctly. Now be patient and wait for the GoogleBot to crawl your new site. Meanwhile, get started writing and posting your next article.
Next time on OK to Make Money online we will look at SEO for your blog.
BigBear
