Submit Your Site to Google
by: Montri Sitthichock
As soon as you register your domain
name, submit it to Google! Even if you haven't built your site, or thought
about your content, submit your domain name to Google. In fact, even if
you haven't fully articulated your business plan and marketing plan, submit
your domain name to Google.
Don't wait!
There are two reasons for this. Firstly,
getting on the search engines has always taken a long time for a new site.
Even assuming you do everything right, it takes months before your site
is even indexed, and more months before it starts to rank well. As a rule
of thumb, never expect to rank highly within 6 months of submitting your
site to Google.
The second reason is a recent phenomenon
called 'Google Sandbox'. Many SEO experts believe that Google 'sandboxes'
new websites. Whenever it detects a new website, it withholds its rightful
ranking for a period while it determines whether your site is a genuine,
credible, long term site. It does this to discourage the creation of SPAM
websites (sites which serve no useful purpose other than to boost the ranking
of some other site).
By submitting your domain name to
Google as soon as you register it, you're establishing a site history even
if the site has no content. By the time you've built your site and developed
your content (and written your business and marketing plans), Google will
probably see no need to sandbox you.
If you wait until launch day to submit
your site, you'll spend a month or two (maybe more) sitting in the sandbox
watching potential customers spend their money elsewhere.
How to submit your site to Google
Don't waste money by paying someone else to submit your site to Google.
It's easy!
Simply go to http://www.google.com.au/addurl.html,
enter your URL (domain name) and a few comments or keywords to describe
your site. Then click 'Submit'. That's all there is to it. You only have
to do it once, and only for your top level page (i.e. Home page).
Google's robots will then crawl your
website the next time they're out and about. Of course, they don't guarantee
that you'll be included in their results.
IMPORTANT: As mentioned above, it
takes quite a while for your site to appear in the search engines. This
is partly because the search engines are big and slow - especially when
it comes to new sites. It will take a minimum of 6-8 weeks before your
site is indexed.
About The Author
Montri Sitthichock is a web developer
and entrepreneur. He is the founder of OCTChild LTD. and many other web
projects. OCTChild provides professional web design and online services
in Thailand. For more information about OCTChild go to: http://www.octchild.com.
