Submitting Your Site Into The Google Search Engine

Having your site or blog into the Google search engine and having your home page as well as all of your sectional pages and individual post pages is one of the best things you can do to gaining more traffic to your site. Google tells users that their spiders called googlebots automatically will find your site in due time. There is a way to get your site indexed a little quicker. But before you go jumping off the deep end and blast off your URL to Google, it might be a good idea to check and see if your site is ready to be listed in Google first.

Is Your Site Ready For Google?

Before submitting your site into Google, they actually recommend that you do a little homework and preparation first. You want to make sure that your site is good enough for inclusion into their database. You don't want google to think that your site is second class and not worthy of providing useful information to people who use Google Search.

Before submitting your site into Google you should actually go out and contact the owners of other sites that are relevant to your own and ask them to add a link from their site to yours. This link creates a direct connection between the two sites. When Googlebots visit a site that has your link on it, the robot will then also connect to your site using the link provided. This is defined as a ‘ Backlink ‘ and the more backlinks you have pointing back to your site the better. So before submitting your site into Google, you should tell everyone you know about your site and ask the people who have similar sites to add your link to their sites.

Make sure all of your own pages are linked together. Every page that you create should have a link back to your home page. Every page should some how be accessible and able to be found through your home page.

Your content should be creative, entertaining, informative, useful and or unique. Do not copy and paste content found on other pages. Google isn't stupid and they aren't the leading search engine for no reason. Their technology is very superior. Also common sense should tell you that Google can easily detect if you copy and paste content found on other sites for the simple fact that Googlebots have already indexed the pages you are copying from. In order to have a great placement in Google, you have to write your own content. Moreover, your content has to be useful to others and be deemed worthy on being included in their index.

Increase Google Rankings With Robot Control

Do you want to increase your Google rankings? I have discovered an easy way to get your self hosted Wordpress blog and posts a better ranking in Google. A self hosted Wordpress blog can consists of hundreds, if not thousands of individual posts and pages. Google is standing by to rank every one of them. All you have to do is control that robot!

Robot control is a little bit like traffic control. With traffic control you have stop signs, traffic lights and crossing guards that control automobiles on the streets. On the Internet instead of their being cars that travel throughout your blog there are people and their are robots. Controlling people and robots on the Internet and within your site is actually much easier than control cars on the streets. In the real world, there are many different street signs that you need to recognize and understand before you can safely drive on the streets.

Traffic Control In The Real World

In order to be a safe driver on the streets you have to know what stop signs mean, you have to understand what Yield, Merge and Dead End stand for. If you don't understand the signs and the commands you could cause an accident and get yourself including other drivers seriously injured and even killed. Driving on the road without understanding the rules of the road is dangerous. To understand all the rules takes time. You have to to study the driving book and gain actual experience. Luckily for you, understanding how to control people and robots on the Internet is much easier and less risky if you have a failed attempt!

Traffic Control In The Internet World

There are two elements that can be controlled on the Internet. People and robots. Generally speaking, most bloggers already know how to control and direct people on their blogs. This is done by placing emphasis on their certain sections within their blogs or putting various other things in the spotlight for their visitors and readers to see. What is not apparent is there is actually two versions of your blog. You have the graphical and pretty version that people see. And you have the coded and text based version that robots see. Moreover, in the version that the robots see, the order of your importance that is visible to people in most cases will be different than what the robots see. In other words, if you place top value on your category section on the graphical side, this section might actually be presented to robots mid way down and possibly even last, or even not at all.

The Robots.txt File

The solution to coaching robots along the right paths is to create a robots.txt file. This file actually has many uses and over the span of the next few weeks, I am going to show you all the functions of a robots.txt file. However, for the time being, I will explain how the robots.txt file helps with controlling robot traffic.

Controlling robot traffic is much easier than controlling street traffic. The only two commands you need to memorize are allow and disallow. In other words, on your robots.txt file, you specifically tell robots where they are allowed to visit and where they are not. Generally speaking, it is as simple as that.

If you run a self hosted Wordpress blog, you can create a robots.txt file and upload it into your root directory. A simple version of this file can give instructions to robots that tell them where they are not allowed to enter. See example:

In this example, I am telling all robots NOT to access these various folders shown. For example, I don't want robots entering and indexing content within my /feed directory. The reason why I don't robots to access this directory is because my content is already available in my category directory. When I purposely ban robots from accessing sections of my site that produce duplicate entries of my content, I am able to direct them to the sections that are important to me. This is very much needed when you want to assure that you are putting forth as much focus on your sections for both people and robots.