At OK To Make Money Online Let Us Show You How To Get Your Blog Indexed
In this edition to OK to Make Money Online, getting your site or blog indexed in the Google search engine is our main task. No one can guarantee that Google will index your site but if we following the practices used online we will have a good chance to getting you indexed.
So, look at the best practices outlined so far:
1) First, you have registered and set up a proper Blogger or a domain using Wordpress or Joomla as a blog.
2) The title of your blog contains your keyword(s).
3) You have an “About” page that includes your long tail keyword and a back link to your site.
4) The Privacy Page is complete or you have revised a copy of mine.
5) Make sure your sitemap is installed and has the right links to your site and Google logged no errors.
6) Two or more original articles are posted on your site using your keywords.
7) You have multiple tags per article, at least 10 relevant tags.
Make sure when using Wordpress or Joomla, you have multiple categories.
9) You have informed Technorati of your blog and claimed it.
Make sure you have completed the above tasks. This is important. By being indexed we are telling the world through Google where your new blog is located. Without the index, no one will ever know you have a blog.
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.
After entering the squiggly letters correctly, you should see something like “Thank you, Your site URL has been successfully added to our list of URLs to crawl. Please note that we do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear”
Next time on OK to Make Money online we will look at SEO for your blog.
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