Getting Listed in Google is Easy

Posted by Wesley LeFebvre on September 10, 2009

So you’ve created your first website and you want to know the quickest way to get it listed in the Google search results. Well never fear, getting your new website listed is easy!

The simplest way to get listed in Google’s index is by adding a link from another website to yours. Yes, it’s really that simple, even Google says so. So how do you going about doing that?

Here are 5 quick and easy ways to get your website listed:

Add a link to it from your profile page on networks such as LinkedIn.com or Biznik.com
Add a link to it from your personal or business blog
Ask a friend to put a link on one of their web pages pointing back to your new website
Create and submit an ad on Craigslist.org or Backpage.com with a link pointing back to your website
Submit a free press release regarding your new site and include a link pointing back to it

Yes, this is the simplest and easiest way to get listed in Google! In some cases Google will index your website within a couple of days, but it can take several weeks to months depending on how often the Googlebot crawls the web pages linking back to your site. So the more links you get pointing to your website, the more likely you’ll be indexed quickly.

Just getting listed doesn’t necessarily mean you will also show up at the top of the search results though. One factor Google uses to determine who to list at the top is by the quantity and quality of links pointing back to a web page, so getting more links will also help with your website’s rankings as well as getting it listed with the other search engines such as Yahoo!, and Bing.

A couple of other ways to get listed is by submitting a sitemap to Google for the advanced techie types, or by submitting it directly to Google and the other major search engines.