There are literally thousands upon thousands of blogs on the internet. There are blogs about every niche imaginable. As such, there is a great deal of competition out there. Bloggers all have a variety of techniques they use to obtain traffic. However, most people agree that nothing beats organic, natural, search engine traffic.
Blogs and web pages are picked up regularly by Google and ranked in order of relevance. Google crawls some blogs more quickly than others, depending on relevance, backlinks, etc. The pages that are indexed quickly referred to as “authority” pages. If you want your blog to be indexed quickly, you need to increase its relevancy and value.
Here are a few tips for optimizing your blog so that Google will crawl it more often:
- If you can, update your blog every single day with unique content. Web pages with duplicate content are indexed very slowly, if at all. The content should be informative, have some targeted keywords (a keyword ratio of under 2%), and consist of no “fluff” or “padding”.
- Optimize even the images on your blog. Don’t just label them as “pic1.jpg” or “pic2.gif”, describe what they are. You could also name each image as an important keyword. Use the WordPress plugin, SEO Friendly Images
- Make sure your posts are internally interlinked professionally (i.e. link from one blog post to another), and that your blog is easy to navigate through. The more posts your blog has, the better. However, don’t compromise on the quality. It’s better to have ten informative, well-written, and unique posts than twenty bad ones.
- Turn on the trackback and pingback options for every single post. Many people don’t realize the importance of this, especially in regards to a Google crawler. With these options on, you will be directing a Googlebot to crawl and find your new posts. Use the MaxBlog Ping Optimizer plugin.
You can see exactly how to set up the plugin here: Increase blog traffic
- Try getting as many quality backlinks from relevant sites as possible. One way you can do this is publish some good articles in article directories and add your link to the “resource box”. Some directories will let you add two links, and some even three. These sites get ranked very high by Google, so your articles (with the links) will be indexed rather quickly.
- Keep your URLs simple, yet effective. Long, complicated URLs take longer to find and index. You need to make them easy to remember and to the point. And, as mentioned above, all of the URLs within your blog need to be organized, easy to find, and directly linked to the relevant content. All of your old posts need to be linked to all of your new posts. Use the Clean Slugs plugin. You do have to join Yoast’s newsletter to get this plugin but it’s well worth it.
- There is some dispute as to whether black hat SEO methods are worthwhile. While using such methods probably will get your blog indexed quickly, they’re extremely risky and your blog can end up being banned. It’s therefore safer to use white hat methods, as they will ensure that your blog will be indexed more quickly over time.
In summary, you can get Google to crawl your blog more quickly by making it as search engine friendly as possible. This means all of your URLs need to be organized, your content needs to be unique, the keywords need to fit in naturally and not overstuffed, etc. Google loves authority websites, so try to make yours as relevant as possible.
What tips do you have to make Google crawl your blog more often? Share them in the comments below.
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I can attest to the effectiveness of your tip #2 on images as I have a static site getting regular traffic from Google image search. I never heard until now about your tip on turning on trackbacks, I didn’t know it has SEO benefits. Thanks for that.
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Carl,
You are welcome…I hope the tips make a difference.
Andrew
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Hey..thnkxx i m learning a lot from here which I will apply on my blogs..
best seo optimzed posts have
H1, h2, h3 keyword
pics alternate text
atleast 200 words with keyword bold..
Tags that are more appropiate,, better research google adword..
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I would agree with you except I think you need to aim for at least 300 words.
Andrew
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Never tried optimizer plugin. Is it really necessary ? I always try my best to reduce the use of plugins.
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Only if you do lots of edits of posts.
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You show many ways, it’s a good tips, Thanks! Usually I just use the “lazy-way”, that is making a few quality backlink or just dropped comments on a good site/blog
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It really depends upon how old your blog is as well. If it has a decent number of posts and Google sees you are regularly updating, Google will come back very quickly.
Andrew
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Getting your blog crawled or indexed by Google quickly isn’t that complicated, I think. One just needs to find out how Google crawls and indexes different websites. Then go where Google is likely to be indexing.
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Kevin,
Not easy?
You make it sound hard.
How do you find out how Google crawls and indexes different websites?
And how do you know where to go where Google is likely to be indexing?
Andrew
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My thoughts exactly! Nobody knows how the algorithm of Google works when they crawl and index sites. It’s their trade secret. There may be products out there that promises you to rank to the top of Google overnight but that’s totally baloney. Nothing beats organic search engine traffic.
Great practical tips you got here Andrew and I hope you don’t mind. I want to include this awesome post in my blog carnival for my readers to see. I will tweet you once I got it published on my blog.
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Please incude in your blog carnival – would be great.
I’ll also add your blgo carnival to my weekly submissions.
Thanks.
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Hi Andrew,
Its gone Live and I’ve tweeted you! You can check the blog carnival at this link:
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Thank you and please do include my blog on your weekly submissions.
Hello Andrew,
Can you give us some information on how to do interlinking internal post? is this something to do with HTML configuration or can you do this off wordpress directly?
Thanks
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Check out this blog post of mine:
http://www.webuildyourblog.com/2613/internal-links-make-easy-wordpress-plugin/
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This is very true. Google have a very good set of criteria in their search engine to index the relevance of blogs according to searches. If your blog is having a lot of traffic and page rank, it opens up into a business opportunity.
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you also can resubmit your sitemap to Google , Google will crawl again if they found something new on your website or blog.
You may download seo powersuite to ping Google.
The more frequent you update your content , the more frequent google will crawl your website
Thanks for the tips. Unfortunately, I’ve done most of these already. I guess it’s time I go through my blog and eliminate less relevant posts.
My blog has not been crawl for over a month now an i have quality contents on it. I don’t know what the problem might be.
You made mention of quality backlink? Please do you recommend any website for this?
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Azubuike
You should read my blog post about back links:
http://www.webuildyourblog.com/2121/build-backlinks-11-methods/
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I am presently using a blogspot.com domain and want to switch over to a custom domain, should i go ahead adding backlinks on my present blog?
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Azubuike
No…not if you intend to switch and have a new domain name.
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Thanks, for these tips…I think Google will now start crwaling my blog more often and starting indexing my articles.
What a brilliant post. You should do a series!
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I think there is a big market for ‘going back to basics and writing for newbies.
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Regularly adding new content and optimizing images are useful strategies as is on page SEO (internal linking). The latter is something many bloggers are obviously unaware of given the number of articles I read on sites that have no internal linking at all.
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Internal linking is a must these days.
I’m also surprized by how many blogegrs don;t use that.
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I agree but then again these days most SEO discussions center around getting back links and various schemes to beat Mr G.
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Not sure if we will evert beat Mr G! Just slightly behind!
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Yeah, i think the more you get backlinks, the more you’ll rank in google..but I really don’t know for sure..it’s really confusing for me sometimes ..maybe it also depends on the keywords you use so people would visit your site..
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It very much depends on the keywords you use. You have to do keyword research to pick out the best ones for your niche.
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Hi Andrew,
Thanks for all the help. Great site :0)
I wondered if you could help me… I’ve just started a site where I give away freebies. But I’ve been putting Amazon ads at the end of each post, as part of the post. Do you think this prohibits a Google crawl? I’ve been adding two to three posts per day for just under a month and I’ve not been crawled yet. I submitted my blog address to Google about a week ago. I’ve linked from my regular blog and from my partner’s blog. And I’m getting a few visitors from Twitter, but only 20 or so per day. Is it just early days? Or should I take the Amazon html away from the posts?
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I don’t think it has anything to do with the Amazon ads.
I just built a site for a client yesterday…full of Amazon ads and it was indexed by Google within hours.
Are you using WordPress?
Andrew
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Hi Andrew,
Thank you for answering. I’m using Blogger. I’ve taken the ads out of the posts now and Google seems to have indexed the last couple of posts, at last. Many thanks for your help and all the advice you supply here
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Perhaps Goolg treats Blogger different to WordPress. I’m sure they do!
Andrew
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Google loves fresh content and hence it is the 1st search engine to crawl content on my blog within a few minutes of publishing also Google loves backlinks which contribute to a higher PageRank which is crawled often. Thanks for sharing the tips Andrew.
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thanks for sharing this information >From several days my website postings is going too late to crawl for your valuable tips i will try to decrease that length of taking time
thanks for u r suggestions that will helped me a lot
once again THANKS FOR SHARING THIS INFORMATIOn
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To get indexed quicker, use Google friendly code and keep a well structured HTML.
Also ping your posts each time they are published
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Just writing fresh relevant content 3 to 5 times a week should be enough in my opinion. But as a newbie blogger, try to at least add new RELEVANT content no less than 5 days for the week….worst case scenario do it every other day. And remember good grammar. No gibberish!
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All good advice!
Now all it takes is action!
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I agree with this tip “Keep your URLs simple, yet effective”. Thank you for sharing I’ve got a lot of ideas from the post as well as from the comments.
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pretty neat tips for a blogger like me . the content is the most importantly to be updated daily without fail, i plan to interlink posts !! from now on. thanks!!1
By adding a Sitemap, you are simply helping Google to Crawl your Posts/Images Better. But keep in mind that Google will add and display only those results in it’s Search Engine which it feels suitable, though it will crawl all the available URLs.
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Great article helps me to unerstand a lot better what can bring back Google bots more regular. I have recently learnt that using the header editor in wordpress an bold/italic font can increase optimisation of your blog. Hope that is helpful!
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I’m not convinced bold/italic will make that much differnece but every little bits helps, I suppose!
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Keep your URLs simple, yet effective i think this is best way to avoid Penalty from Google in this time of PANDA
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Hey, my blog is taking too much of time to update in google search after changing the domain, any idea for faster crawling mechanism
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Yes…follow the tips in this blog post!
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Setting up an RSS feed button on your blog makes it easy for your loyal readers to not just read your blog but also know when you publish new content.
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1. Make your blog use Search Engine Friendly component
2. Use Dedicated IP
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Wow, nice article here. SEO Friendly images? I never think of it. Thanks Andrew, I like to try it in my wordpress.
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Thanks a lot. I am very happy, i followed all your tips and they worked for me.
I have also changed from blogspot.com to a custom domain and moved to wordpress too just as i stated in my previous comments.
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Azubuike
Are you pleased that you have moved to WordPress?
Andrew
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Yes i am very much please and have no regrets about that, wordpress rocks!
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Daily updation of content on your site is very very important and if the site have inbound links than it is very beneficial for the site.
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I am going to disagree with you…you don’t need daily updates on your blog. Three times a week is enough.
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Great information you have given in your this post thanks for sharing because i think crawling is very necessary part of any website or blog. Google crawl our website and give it rank or where it stand current time. Very good advice you have given how we can improve our website for better crawling or Google friendly.
Thanks again
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