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Getting Indexed by Google

A Reader Shares His Secret

Originally Published: October, 2003

If you've been a reader of MarketPosition for long, you realize the importance of obtaining third party links to your Web site. On Google and other engines, links to your Web site can not only boost rankings, but as Tom Schwarz discovered, a quality link from a single Web site can also improve your ability to get listed. Consider Tom's recent comments:

Inbound Links Get You Indexed Faster Than Submission

Tom's experience confirms that a link from a site already indexed by Google can get your Web site indexed much faster than a submission alone. You'll notice that Tom's Web site includes links to his partner sites at the bottom of every page. This means that anytime Google's spider revisits a page on shopping-headquarters.com, it has a direct link to the partner sites, further helping those sites to get indexed.

Be aware though that submitting to an FFA or other site where your link is maintained for a brief period of time and then removed will not help you much with Google. First, Google tends to periodically review its index, dropping previously indexed sites that no longer have any incoming links. Therefore, if you're fortunate to know a friend like Tom who will link to your site, make sure you establish one or more other links before the first one is removed.

Those that are new to search engine optimization may be wondering how they can achieve a third party link to their site to facilitate getting indexed on Google. Fortunately, there are many effective techniques for acquiring links to your site that are discussed in detail in WebPosition Gold's Page Critic. The Page Critic can also measure the current link popularity of your Web site, and help you develop a comprehensive optimization strategy.

Editor's Note: See also: articles about getting incoming links and download ARELIS to improve your link popularity.

This article is copyrighted and has been reprinted with permission from FirstPlace Software, the makers of WebPosition.
FirstPlace Software helped define the SEO industry with the introduction of the first product to track your rankings on the major search engines and to help you improve those rankings.

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