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How to get indexed by Google quickly

Regular readers will remember that it took me a while to get Buy Links indexed despite investing in directory listings at thisisouryear, uncoverthenet, seoma, sevenseek, and linking to it a few times from this blog. By the way it did finally get indexed and the recent PR update showed us a 4 which is not bad for a few directory listings and a few forum sigs.

Anyway, I didn't want to wait for my new site, www.eslad.com. I started off with a few deep links in the shopping category at jtrotta.com. I didn't expect this to have an effect, but a Google site site:http://www.eslad.com/ search currently turns up 47 pages indexed.

This is a small start, and obviously I need more pages indexed to make the Digital Point link coop ads more valuable. So I've just added links to the homepage from 2 PR 6 pages at www.eslgo.com/sstore.html and www.eslgo.com/tstore.html

What I want to see is these two strong links getting a decent chunk of the site indexed. I'll let you know how this little experiment works out.

Link-Exchange.net

These guys sent me a success story:

After creating 50 pages that are keyword relevant to debt consolidation and all the state abbreviations 4 weeks ago, AL, AZ, NY, FL ect… and creating a new listing on links-exchange.net for www.americandebtco.org/American-debt-consolidation/ and www.americandebtco.org/debt-consolidation/, which is linked to all of the state pages. The listing went strait to the top 10 for almost every keyword phrase, in less than two weeks from being indexed. Check it out for yourself, go to Google and type in debt consolidation MN, debt consolidation MS or debt consolidation and any other state abbreviation and somewhere in the top 10 you will find americandebtco.org. The reason I am sharing this information with you is, we want to see all of our members in the top 10 for your keywords. And of course to show the skeptics that the Links-Exchange.net system does work extremely well if your site is optimized properly.

....The best tip we can give you is to create new directories for each keyword that you are targeting and only target one or two words per page. This also includes those of you that have chosen option 1 (to host your own links page) in our program. We recommend option 1 over option 2, and when using option 1 to place the new ASP or PHP page in it’s own directory, Example www.americandebtco.org/links/ . This is only a recommendation, not a requirement.

My network marketing blog hasn't seen top rankings, but I didn't expect it to. What did surprise me was a drop from PR 3 to PR 2 indicating to me that Google doesn't value these links (which they shouldn't). However the testimonial contradicts my experience...

Interestingly they are also giving out free copies of the 79.00 SEO Book. That was in a link in an email already sent so I'm not sure if signing up now will get you one...

Adding sites to the coop

The new Google update has left me with a few more candidates for the Digital Point ad coop. It's better for message boards than blogs because home page PR is part of the weight calculation but internal pages PR is not.

That means a PR 5 blog with 100 PR 4 pages indexed by Goolge would get less weight than a PR 5 message boards with 200 PR 0 pages indexed. But my Father's antique car photo blog is a good candiadte with many pages.

PR has arrived

PR for my directory categories has arrived and it only took about a month. In my past experience it often takes Google longer to update PR on new internal pages of old sites. Anyway, you're wondering how I did, right?

http://www.jtrotta.com/ is now PR 6. I'm happy to have separated myself from the PR 5 directories (there are just too many of those weaklings out there...) but I am surprised. I've been promoting the top level categories more heavily than the index page, with at least 3 (in most cases more) PR 5 links going to each top level category.

So how about the categories, you ask. Some are PR 5 but most of the top level categories are PR 4. After that it depends on how many subcategories there are. Fore example http://www.jtrotta.com/Art-and-entertainment/Music is PR 3 - so is http://www.jtrotta.com/Art-and-entertainment/Music/American-folk which is one level deeper.

However, we don't see a drop from PR 4 to PR 3 in every category. http://www.jtrotta.com/Communication is PR 4 as is http://www.jtrotta.com/Communication/Writing-and-editing one level down. Go deeper than that and we're at PR 3 - http://www.jtrotta.com/Communication/Writing-and-editing/Business

Which categories are PR 5? Education, Shopping, Sports, Transportation, and Travel.

I have more directory news, but I don't want to tell it all at once. Besides I feel like celebrating!

Easy link exchanges

You can now trade links with this blog via my Webmaster link directory. This has a link from the homepage of this site, every individual entry page of this site, and several links fromoother sites.

I've also gotten my Business and finance link directory up and running for those of you who wish to trade links with my stock blog.

Better late than never

The directory for this site will be ready soon. I just launcehed one for my travel site, so if you have a travel site and want to trade links please visit my new travel link directory.

I actually have emails from 2004 from people who wanted to trade links with this site, but I was overwhelmed and had nowhere to put them all. Now that my directory is ready here's what I've been sending people:

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I certainly hope your site is doing as well as mine. The reason it took me so long to write back is because my little hobby site became very very popular thanks to excellent search engine rankings; I am currently getting over 800 unique visits every day!

Of course that also means I've gotten hundreds of link exchange requests like yours and I didn't know what to do with them all as I had no links page. Today I got my link directory.

www.travelplanidea.com is my new directory. It has 130 links from www.travel-plan-idea.com including a home page link. There's also a link from www.jtrotta.com/Travel and http://eslgo.com/reciprocal_links/

Please understand that this is a hobby site and that I can not possibly add all the link requests I've gotten. Therefore I have to ask you to visit the directory at www.travelplanidea.com - then click on the best category for your site, click "submit new link", and fill in the necessary information. I'll make sure this is worth your time; the directory will get lots of traffic and link popularity.

You will also need to place a link on one of your pages to "http://www.travel-plan-idea.com/" using the title "travel information" Here's some html you can use: Travel Information - A travel blog with information on vacation plans worldwide, destination reviews, travel warnings, airline reviews, accommodations information, and more.

Manual directory submission service

This directory submission service is designed for webmasters who want permanent links to their sites and content pages for increased link popularity and search engine rankings. My specialty is finding deep links to your most important content pages at a reasonable price.

The first requirement is that you have a budget of $250.00 or more. This is a one time fee; the directories I'll be submitting to only require a one time fee so this 250.00 is not a recurring charge.

The second requirement is that you tell me which pages you want to promote and their keyword targets. You may choose to promote your index page and/or several contnet pages.

The third requirement is a list of directories you are already listed in. If you are already taking advatage of the directories I use I will refund your payment.

The directories I prefer include Seoma.net, my own Jtrotta.com, and Octopedia.com. These directories can provide deep links to your favorite content pages and are excellent values. Seoma.net and Jtrotta.com accept content page listings in the directory categories while Octopedia.com allows deep links in a details page.

I also consider Sevenseek.com, which will link to web pages as well as web sites. The value of a listing here often depends on where your site fits in the directory hierarchy and the number of links on each page.

And I consider Uncoverthenet.com, which offers deep links on a business card page (deep links used to be offered from the directories category pages and these were more valuable). In some cases this is still a good value. It is also possible to pay less money for a listing without deep links on the business card page.

I normally submit to GoGuides.org. They only link to your index page but depending on which category your site fits in and the number of sites already listed, this directory is often a good value.

Once you've paid, I'll get to work. I'll choose the paid inclusion web directories that offer the best value links for your site's index page and/or the content pages you choose to promote.

You can buy now by making a PayPal payment to gumpersag@yahoo.com or you can ask questions about this directory submission service by emailing jtrotta@gmail.com.

#5

I while back I wrote that I was going to target Malfunkshun with my new grunge message board. Well I decided to target grunge music as well. It jsut doesn't look that competitive. Sure enough I'm already at #5 and with the exception of wikipedia I don't see much competition in the way.

I'm not doing too well for Malfunkshun yet...

GoGuides directory submission service

I am now an approved Goguides.org submission specialist meaning that I can submit sites for less than the normal 40.00 or so they charge. I haven't set a price for this service yet but I think it will depend on at least two factors:

1. Does my client know the URL for the GoGuides category the site should be submitted to?

2. Has my client written a good title and description, or do I have edit or rewrite some of it.

More weight coming

So the folks over at digital point ad coop taught me how to get coop links installed on my grunge forum and the archive. Since I just removed session IDs from the regular forum I think both it and the archive will be indexed. The header and footer on each is different so I don't think it will be considered duplicate content. I mean there are lots of stupid DMOZ clones getting indexed...

I'm happy

So my new grunge message board (not really new - I bought) has a weight just under 30,000 in the ad coop.

I'm happy with that. That's enough weight for me to get the board up there for "grunge music" and point a little weight at a few toher sites I think. And since it's an active message baord weight should increase as more people post and more pages get indexed. And right now it's only PR 4. I can get that up to 5 no problem for some added weight...

Google's learning

I've been complaining for a while about all the old news articles and the bowling ball site appearing in Google searches for NFL Giants. Wll things are getting better, with my football blog coming in at #5 and being beaten only by other Giants footabll sites.

After #5 things aren't so great. 6 and 7 are old news articles as is #9. But I'm not complaining now that I'm back where I belong on the first page.

Also I'm #4 for ny giants news and #8 for ny giants football. Traffic is up!

I bought a message board

So as Google was updating its SERPs, I was buying another website. A grunge music message board. Now I'm thinking about how to help it grow. Users agree that more users is wht we really need. So how do I get them?

I've decided to work on a pretty non-competitive keyword: Malfunkshun. This is a grunge band that grunge fans really love. People searching for this word are the kinds of people who really want to talk grunge and who can really contribute to a grunge community. Or so I hope...

As I've said before, message boards are quite valuable for SEO, especially now with the link coop...