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Many times people wonder why their new blog or website isn’t showing up when searched with popular search engines such as Google. However, there is many behind the scene’s operatives that must take place. The Art of SEO! Search engine optimization. Keywords, tags, back-linking. A great website is getting traffic from multiple locations, rather than JUST Google searches.

Google indexes the Internet about once a month. If you have a popular site, it will index you more often, but generally if you’re a new site they won’t get to you for a while. You can submit a request for indexing to Google, but this won’t guarantee they get to you faster. How soon they index you is determined by the popularity of your site and the quality of your page ranking. Google’s webmaster central offers more information on “indexing” and “crawling” here.

How can you increase your chances of getting hits? Increase your chances of getting indexed.

1. Join social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, or Digg
2. Adding comments to blogs or other sites is a great way to get links coming into your site. Go to blog aggregators such as Technorati or StumbleUpon and look up the most popular blogs to add comments to. Do not add spam comments, but sincere comments that add value to the blog.
3. Also, submitting your site to lesser-known search engines helps you get indexed into Google faster.
4. Starting your own blog is a great way to generate links into your site. If you start a blog with Blogger, they are owned by Google and indexed daily. Check out my post strictly related to GOOGLE and SEO – Search Engine Optimization.
5. Hire cheap third-party SEO. We recommend The SEO Method!

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