SEO Report – Five Ways to Attract Google's Attention

Getting Google’s attention is one of the major preoccupations of webmasters. After all, once you launch your website the need to let Google know about your website is paramount. Google has suggested  a number of ways webmasters can let TPTB know about your websites. The first step is to take advantage of  Google’s Add URL page. However,Google does not include their Add URL page as one of the suggested ways to tell them about your new website. There are more accurate and fast ways to accomplish your goal – namely, by getting your website crawled by the search engine bots/spiders.

One of the best methods in Google’s ‘recommended’ list is the sitemap. One of Google’s unique features is Google Sitemap, which is different from the regular sitemaps that you put in your websites for user navigation. Google Sitemap is not meant for public access. It is reserved for Google bots. You can let Google know about your website and about the nature of updates that you make through the sitemap, which makes it a very valuable tool! Your SEO can take advantage of this option.

You can also get Google’s attention by including a news section in your website. Press releases are one of the fastest ways of getting Google’s search bots to your site and to get your site indexed in the shortest time, and you can combine these efforts with Google News Sitemaps. This will inform Google of both the frequency of your news updates and the adding of fresh content at any time to the news section – you can reuse old news information if needed to keep fresh content coming in and the bots returning over and over. Be aware that currently the only supported language to News Sitemaps is English. Your old news articles can go into Google’s news archive section. Not many webmasters are aware of the effectiveness of press releases and Google’s news archive section, so this is still kind of an ‘in’ thing to do.

The next interesting method also suggested by Google is to include your website images and photos in Google’s image search. Though inclusion in Google image search listings will not fetch a considerable amount of traffic, it will certainly create another door for the search engine bots to visit your website, and you never know – someone might find your sight through an image search and end up being your best customer.

The secret to getting indexed and staying updated in the index is to constantly supply the  Google bot with enough good reasons to visit your website often. Google also recommends you to make use of YouTube, where you can upload your videos and product demos and link them to your site. YouTube attracts millions of visitors every day. If your video content is compelling, you will get lot of traffic through YouTube.

Follow these steps to get Google’s attention, then keep up the good work! Have your SEO professional use the above steps to get your website indexed fast.