Google Search submission URL. Submit here if your site is new and/or still not listed in google. How to know if your site is listed in Google?

Just go to Google and type this in Google Search -> site:your-url.com

1) Google Search submission URL:

http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

2) Google Blog Search:

Make sure you submit here, because if your site is listed in Google, it doesn’t mean it is listed in the blog search. High quality and when you make a new high quality post, you can also get listed in the top 10 in Google, at the bottom, where it says: “Blog posts about…”

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping

3) Bing Search:

Bing was originally known as MSN Search. Microsoft’s official search engine that is here to stay.

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx

4) Yahoo Site Explorer:

You can submit a webpage or a Site Feed. They can ask you to verify your submission by adding a META tag to your home page, or uploading a verification file to your site. It’s worth it to submit there and take a few minutes to verify it.

https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

5) Yahoo RSS submission:

Another great tool from Yahoo to submit your RSS, very useful.

http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/submit

Happy WordPressing everyone!

Content duplication is one of the most common issues(or challenges) webmasters and site owners must face. There are many different ways to deal with content duplication. The canonical link element is one of the methods used to resolve this issue. The canonical link element was recently endorsed by Google, Yahoo! and Bing.

Another popular search engine like Ask dot com has recently implemented the canonical link element. Most Content Management Software like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal have recently implemented the canonical link element in their code. I will talk more in detail about the “Canonical Link Element” soon.

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The theory is that Google puts new sites in holding period until they’ve aged enough to warrant consideration. First of all, this is definitely not how it works, but it’s quite possible that new sites are “untrusted” at first. Many sites get a page rank quick. However to get trusted, it takes a lot longer and hard work.

The biggest reason why new sites have a hard time getting ranked is that they should have a hard time. Their competitors have had years to establish their site on the web. A long time to build links, write content and keep the site active. I don’t know of an easy way to overcome this, but I don’t think it’s inevitable that you must wait a year or two to get trusted. I launch new sites with my clients all the time and we have seen this behavior during the last few years. In short: Work hard and don’t give up.

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Alva Edison.

To a search engine, a page that isn’t in their results is a page that does not exist. So, if you’re pointing links at pages that aren’t getting indexed, the PageRank is passing out through those links into the ether. Therefore, it is important in the long run to know which pages are getting indexed and which aren’t. Then you should take steps to improve your index penetration. In the long run, you’d like to have your entire site indexed. The first step is checking to see if you’re getting indexed at all.

To Improve your index pentration you can do the following exercise. Take one of the pages from your site that’s not indexed at all, and link to it from a couple pages that are in the index. Wait a couple weeks, and check back to see if your page has moved into the search results and if your page is now “cached”. Then you can repeat the process to bring more pages into the search results.

To know if a specific page is indexed, you will need the google toolbar installed. After installing the google toolbar, visit the page you want to check if is indexed, for example “yourdomain.com/my-articles/search-engines/” and on the toolbar click on “cached snapshot of page”. If this is your first time through with the fast start process, don’t get hung up on indexing just yet. You’ll have plenty of chances to revisit this article, after you’ve done some work to develop and optimize your content, build links and tweak your design.

Let’s say that you spend hundreds of hours building, tweaking and promoting your site and you managed to get a #1 ranking for “real estate”. Unless you sell real estate of all kinds in every part of the world, a big amount of the traffic you’ll get will come from people who are looking for something you don’t actually have. Although you may not optimize your blog for those keywords, it’s very important that you know what they are, as it applies to your blog too.

As you work through this article, make a list of the 5-10 major keywords that describe your blog. These should be mostly single words (like “cars”), with perhaps a couple of commonly-used phrases (like “real estate”) mixed in. These major keywords will form the backbone of your site design effort, since they will help define the themes around which you will organize your blog’s content. Don’t worry too much about them right now, because this is one of the many cases where you can easily correct an omission in future. In other words, if you forget a major keyword today, you can do something about it next month and so on.

If the keywords appear in headings, page titles, and other important spots on the page, a search engine will see this as more relevant than a page where the keyword appears once in the middle of the page. In addition to positioning, link popularity and other factors contribute significantly to your page’s ranking. Since there will usually be a good number of pages that have just the right mix of relevant keywords and position, link popularity makes a good “tiebreaker” for search engines to use when ranking pages.

Closely related to link popularity is “link relevance” and weighting. This means that a link to your “New York Real Estate” page from a page that actually contains those words is more relevant than a link from an unrelated page. The text used in the link itself is very important. Google’s “PageRank” system is the best documented, and most discussed, of the search engines’ link analysis methods. Basically, Google’s PageRank is a quality of web pages. Every page has some level of rank, and it flows from one page to another through links.

The amount of PageRank that flows from a page is divided between all the links on that page, which mean that the more links that point out of a page, the less PageRank flows through each link. PageRank comes to a page from incoming links. So the more relevant links you have pointing into your site, and the more popular the sites linking to you are, the better off you’ll be. The more pages you have in the index, the more PageRank you have within your site. As I’ll explain later, you can take some control of how PageRank flows within your site, which can help you boost the profile of your the important pages in your WordPress Blog.

The first step to understand a keyword strategy is to know how people search. For any topic or niche, there are thousands of ways that people will select a keyword or phrase when using any search engine. The more different keywords and phrases your site “ranks” for, (in the top 10 results), the more often it will show up when a member of your target audience conducts a search. Every time your site appears in the search results, there’s a chance your site will be visited. Obviously, the higher your site ranks, the better your chance for success.

Once your site appears in the search results, you need to check that your blog title and description match what that particular web surfer is looking for. The total formula, then, involves how many keyword phrases your site can rank well for, and how relevant and enticing your page titles and descriptions are. Obviously, then, increasing the number of keyword phrases your site covers will often deliver far better results than trying to rank well on one extremely competitive keyword. The best part of this, is that increasing the number of keywords actually helps you target the right audience. For example a #1 ranking for “Real Estate” even if you could achieve it, only attracts a very general audience. However a #1 ranking for “Miami FL Condos” is much easier to achieve, and far more targeted, which means higher quality traffic for your site.