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well. Submission is not necessary and does not
guarantee inclusion in our index. Given the large number of sites submitting
URLs, it's likely your pages will be found in an automatic crawl before they
make it into our index through the URL submission form."
We can therefore draw two conclusions:
- 1. Submitting your site does not guarantee
inclusion.
- 2. Most pages are found and indexed
automatically, when Google crawls the web.
The Google folks have also made it clear that
Google gives a page more importance when it is found through an automatic crawl.
This can be easily verified when we consider how Google's Page Rank system
works: when page A links to page B, part of page A's Page Rank trickles down to
page B, increasing page B's PageRank (and, therefore, its importance). A
manually submitted page will not enjoy this benefit.
Now that you know that manual submission is
neither necessary nor the best way to go, what can you do to make Google find
your pages?
The best way, at least in my personal
experience, is to write an article on your area of expertise and submit it to
popular article syndication sites like http://www.marketing-seek.com or
http://www.ideamarketers.com . These sites will post your article, so that
online publishers can use them for free in exchange for including your resource
box at the end of the article. A resource box (a.k.a. bylines) is a small
paragraph about yourself, written by you, which contains a link to your
homepage.
In very little time, your article will show up
in websites and ezines across the web. It will then be just a matter of time
(usually days) before Google crawls those pages and finds your links. If you
followed good web design practices and have included a link to a site map in
your homepage, Google will follow it as soon as it finds your homepage, and all
your pages will be indexed. It's as simple as that.
The most popular articles you can write are
those that list a collection of tips related to your area of expertise. One of
my most succesful articles is called "50 Surefire Web Design Tips", and it is
nothing but a checklist of guidelines to follow when designing a website.
Another good way to help Google find your pages
is to exchange links with other sites. Google will crawl those sites, find the
links to your page, and add it to the index.
Finally, remember to optimize your pages before
you try to get them listed, so that you have a better chance of ranking high in
the search engine results pages (SERPs). After all, what good would it do to get
your pages listed if nobody can find them?
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