Ten Steps And Eight Days To Google Indexing Your Site

I am certainly not an expert but a website I recently started working on made a new record appearance(for me) on Google. I built the first page for this site on a Saturday and the following Saturday afternoon the home page showed up in the Google index.

Ten Steps to the Google Index

First I created 5 original pages. I then took 5 pages from ezine articles and posted them on my new website. All of these pages are related to the same theme. March 31, 2007

Create a Links Page

Next I created a links page and linked to several websites in the same local vicinity of my website. March 31, 2007

Create a Sitemap

I built a site map of my site with links to all of my pages on the site. I linked from all of the pages on the site to my home page and to my site map. March 31, 2007

Verify with Google

Next I verified the site with my Google account. I went to Google Webmaster Tools and followed the directions on how to verify my site. It took about 10 minutes. It is a simple process. April 1, 2007

Build a Sitemap.xml

Next I built a site map --Sitemap.xml-- I searched on Google for "how to build a Site map" and found a site that built my Sitemap for me. I built a general web site map with an .xml ending. April 1, 2007

Build a Sitemap.xml page

Next I loaded my Sitemap.xml onto my website. I named the page "Sitemap.xml". April 1, 2007

Google accepted Sitemap

Next I put my Sitemap.xml URL in the box in Google webmaster tools. I checked the next day and Google had accepted it. April 1, 2007

Submit Articles

Next I submitted an article to EzineArticles.com. One of the articles I wrote for my website I submitted. I changed the links on a couple of articles that had already been accepted by Ezine Article to include links to my new website. 3 links. April 1-3, 2007

Links on another Website

I have another website that I put two links onto that is in the same industry as the new website. This other website is not highly rated by Google in fact none of the pages have a page rank above zero. I thought it couldn't hurt so I dropped in a couple of links. 2 more links April 3, 2007

EBAY Auction Link

I also put a link to my new website on two of the auctions I am running on eBay. 2 more links. April 3, 2007

Checking for the Domain to Appear in the Google Index

On the morning of the seventh day it did not appear but several of the links that I had posted on EzineArticles showed up. I kept checking for the domain name on Google. Saturday afternoon seven days and 16 hours after I first listed mydomainname.Googlepages.com, the home page of my new website popped up as I searched for it. I am not linking to the website in this article because I don't want this article to impact the website traffic. The search shows Google has 180,000 pages in their index with the two words that I used in the title of my new free twowords.Googlepages.com. My new website showed up as number two. 4/7/2007

Google Webmaster Tools

I checked my Google Webmaster Tools on the 7th and the Google website did not show any pages indexed even though one of the pages was showing up in the index. Checking in Google Tools on 4/8/2007 it showed my homepage as having been indexed on 4/6/2007.

Everything I did in reference to this website I have listed here. I am amazed because I have had websites take months to finally make it to the Google Index. I plan on putting more pages on my new website and growing it. I will write updates on this websites progress on my Googlepages.com/eightdaystogoogleindex">Web Hosting 2055 website regularly if you are interested.

I am going to log all actions I am taking on the website as I do them.

4/8/2007 put link in Googlepages forum to the new website. As of today the website has 14 total pages counting sitemaps.

4/10/2007 I put more original pages up. Total now 24 pages. Still only one page in the Google Index.

Rick Kern Website Researcher, Website builder, http://webhosting2055.googlepages.com

Using A Web Hosting Forum To Find Your Next Host

The Internet has given us a whole new world in which to communicate and part of what we do in the spirit of that communication is discuss different topics through what are called forums an open discussion group where participants post messages on a variety of topics and engage in back and forth dialogue. The topics of the forums are generally determined by the nature of the website on which they are hosted and participants are often asked to become members of the website in order to take part in the discussion. Interestingly enough, in some cases, the topic being discussed on the Internet is the Internet itself. In fact, more and more people find a web hosting forum to be a helpful place to exchange information on the myriad of decisions involved in choosing and handling a web host.

A web host is imperative to the creation and operation of a website of any kind. In essence, a host is a company or individual that offers unlimited access to the Internet through its server a computer that gives and receives information from other computers. The host server is plugged into the Internet at all times other than when they are down for service or due to technical difficulties. When you create a website you rent space online from the web host; in exchange for your monthly rental fee, the web host offers you territory on its server so that your website is connected to the Internet. If you are looking to start a website or have a website and are in search of an effective host, a web hosting forum can be crucial in determining what has been successful for other website owners.

For instance, in a web hosting forum consumers can find other websites that have about the same level of traffic as their own and ask the owners what web host has been successful for them. While a web host should offer almost unlimited access to the Internet, there are some that have a reputation for being offline more frequently that one would expect. Additionally, not all web hosts can handle the traffic that is generated by every website. It is worth finding a more comprehensive web host if your website receives quite a bit of traffic as opposed to smaller companies that receive a lower traffic rate. A web hosting forum will help you find those hosts that effectively play to your websites strengths.

There is also the possibility of finding a web hosting forum that is created for web hosts themselves. Web hosts are a unique community that understands each others tribulations. Such a forum provides a place and an opportunity for hosts to discuss the unique challenges of their industry.

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