In today’s post I want to share a little trick I learned a while back on how to get your Blog posts indexed virtually instantly by Google.
The first step is to get yourself setup with a Google Webmaster Tools account if you don’t already have one.
Google Webmaster Tools can be found by clicking here.
If you don’t already have an account, you’ll want to set one up. It’s free.
Once you have your account, you’ll want to add your website to the listings.
Add both the www. and the non-www. version of your site, such as for example “www.freeyounow.com” as well as just “freeyounow.com”.
Google sees these as two different web properties, so you’ll want to tell them that they are the same one by going to “Site Settings”, which you’ll find by clicking on the gear icon in the top right corner of your screen.
Once you’re there, you’ll want to make sure you have the www. version of your site set as the preferred domain.
(you only need to do this once per domain)
Once you have this setting saved, head over to the “Fetch as Google” section which you’ll find in the menu on the left side, under the “Crawl” menu.
Once you’re in this section, you’ll want to paste the URL to your new blog post and then click the “FETCH” button on the right side.
When you do that, Google will go to your Blog and it will fetch your blog post.
Assuming everything went according to plan and Google was able to find your blog post on your site, it will now show your blog post listed and ready for indexing.
Now all you have to do is click the “Submit to Index” button as shown below.
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Once you click the “Submit to Index” button, this pop-up will appear.
Simply select “Crawl only this URL” and click the “GO” button.
Once you do that, if everything goes well, Google will now add your blog post to their index.
Congratulations, your blog post is now indexed by Google without having to wait for Google to find your new post.
Wow – great post Paul – thanks a lot – rally important info!!!
best wishes
Johnny
Hi Johnny, glad you found this post useful and I hope it helps you to get indexed much faster.
Great Article and it just what I needed because yesterday I was creating my account and I had a lot of question and your article answered these questions
Glad you found this useful Agnes.
This is so helpful! I forgot how to do this and was going to ask you in the near future 😉 great post!! Thanks!!
Thanks. Now you don’t have to ask, and if you forget in the future, you can just refer to this article at any time. 🙂
Hi Paul, I apply your teaching on the non-www. I hope this will give me more juice. thanks for sharing. Love and blessings. Johan
I’m wondering why you need the www checked. I have never used that with my site. I prefer it without the www.
Really you just need to pick one version of your site and stick to it. The reason I pick the “www.” version of my site is that the majority of people are in the habit of putting a “www.” in front of any domain that they link to. So for example, if your domain is “ilovemychi.com”, and I was writing a blog post and I wanted to mention your site name, I would habitually type in “www.ilovemychi.com” and use that as a link. Because of this, now my link to your site acts as one vote for the “www.” version of your site, while in other places Google will see the non “www.” version.
That setting actually tells google that those are the same site, but for me personally I still prefer to use the “www.” version of a domain. It’s up to you though. 🙂
Thanks Paul!