Do you know How To Get Your Website On Google

Most Internet users rely on Google and other search engines to find information online. If you are building a website, therefore, it is very important to get your site listed on those search engines. But how do you achieve that? In this article will explain the two options you have.

Direct Submission – Not Effective Anymore

Virtually all search engines have a direct submission option. That is, they have a specific page where you can go and submit the URL of your website, to notify the search engine about its existence.
You can visit Google’s submission page to see an example.
When search engines first appeared, this method was the best one, because the search index was created almost manually. These days, however, search engines rely on automated web crawlers and algorithms to index the web almost in real time, so the direct submission is no longer an efficient option.
In fact here is what Google says on its submission page: “We do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear.”
Moreover, there is the fact that most low quality and spam websites resort to the direct submission, hoping it will help them to appear on Google. That is why search engines pick the websites that get submitted to them with a grain of salt.

Getting Backlinks – The Best Way

As we mentioned above, these days search engines have a very sophisticated technology to crawl and index the web. They are capable of discovering new links in a matter of hours, and if that link points to a website that is not in their index yet, they’ll add it on the fly.
That is why the best way to get your website listed on Google is to get other websites linking to your own site (when another site links to yours it is called a backlink). If you manage to get an authoritative site on your niche to link to your site, Google will probably index you within 24 hours. Even if you just get links from average sites, you should still be included in Google’s index within 48 to 72 hours.
Not sure how to get backlinks? Here are some simple methods you can use:

1. Ask Friends to Link to Your Website

If you have friends who have their own websites or blogs, ask them to link to your website. They could write a post recommending your website to their readers, for example, or simply include a link to your website on their sidebar.

2. Submit Your Website to Web Directories

Getting your website listed on web directories won’t send you much traffic, and it won’t give you fantastic search rankings either, but it should be enough to let Google discover and index your website. Here is a list with hundreds of web directories you can use.

3. Submit Content to Article Directories

When you submit an article to a directory, it will publish the article on its website, including an author byline. You are allowed to include a link to your website on that byline, and that is how you can get backlinks by submitting content to these directories. Here is a list with the top 50 article directories on the web.

4. Join Online Forums and Put A Link To Your Site on the Signature

Most online forums allow their members to create a signature, and you can also include a link to your website on that signature. After you create your member account and setup your signature, therefore, it will be a matter of writing posts in the forum, and each post will count as a backlink. You can use the Big-Boards.com site to find online forums in your niche.

Checking If Your Site Is Indexed

Once you get some backlinks to your website and wait a couple of days, how do you check to see if the site is already indexed or not?
The right way to do it is to use the “site:” parameter on Google. That is, search for “site:yourdomainname.com” on Google. If your website is already indexed, the first result should be your homepage, and the other results represent the internal pages that Google also indexed from your site. Here is a screenshot of this search query for our own website:

The Sandbox Effect

One common mistake webmasters make is to search on Google for the name of their website, expecting to find it there right away. When they don’t, they freak out and start thinking that something is wrong.
For example, let’s suppose that you just launched a website called SuperCars.com. You put some content there, get some backlinks, and then you use the “site:” parameter to see if it is indexed. It is. You then search on Google for “super cars,” hoping to find your site there, but it is nowhere to be found, even when you look on the second, third and fourth page of results.
Is there something wrong here? No. This is a perfectly normal pattern, and people call it “the sandbox effect.”
Google basically has a separate index, the sandbox, where it places all newly discovered websites. When websites are on the sandbox, they won’t appear in the search results for normal search queries, like “super cars.” Why is that? Because Google still needs to evaluate whether the website is legitimate or not (i.e., that it has unique content, that it doesn’t have spam or malicious content and so on).
Once Google verifies that the website is legitimate, it will move it out of the sandbox and into the main index. That is when the site will start ranking for normal search queries, and that is when the owner of SuperCars.com would be able to find its website when searching for “super cars.”
How long does it take to get out of the sandbox? It varies from site to site. Sometimes it happens in one month, other times it takes three or four months.
The best way to make sure you’ll get out of the sandbox as soon as possible is to keep publishing unique content on your site to keep getting backlinks from quality and relevant websites.