How to prompt Google to Index your Guide

So what do I do?

Right after creating a guide, there is a waiting period of almost two weeks right after your guide has been created when the search engines have yet to index it. How do you get around the wating period? Believe it or not, the answer is really quite simple: search it out.

How specifically is this accomplished?

The logic behind this of course is that for every keyword phrase you search out that returns no results, you will trigger the Google bots to investigate much sooner than they normally would, and hence speed up the process by which your new guide is indexed.

The last guide I used this process on came up first and actually bumped MSDN out of the number one position.

So after “developing a list of keywords” (yes that was actually a keyword phrase) as I described in the previous text block, make sure beforehand the guide has some of those keyword phrases incorporated into the text, and last, take the list, do some searches in Google with it, but specify instead that only Guidespot is to be searched like so:

best seo practices site:http://www.guidespot.com
“best seo practices” site:http://www.guidespot.com

You will also need to search the new guide using its link like so:

best seo practices site:http://www.guidespot.com/guides/how_prompt_google_index
“best seo practices” site:http://www.guidespot.com/guides/how_prompt_google_index

In Conclusion

To reiterate the instructions on what to do simply create a list of keywords for use in your guide, incorporate those, and search the list of them in Google… works like a charm. :)

Good Luck, and Happy Guidespotting!

Three Pointers

1. Make sure the keywords in your guide are relevant to its content, clear and defined in purpose, and are none too excessive or otherwise the bots may not be able to determine it’s content well within the defined parameters of their program.

2. Original content is really the key to it all. While video and links are good for enhancing the user experience- a bot cannot really determine the relevance behind a video per se for the fact it cannot watch it. Really, such relies on how the video itself is tagged. And therefore, the primary driving factor in determining relevancy is mostly the just text on the page.

3. Make sure the keywords you are using compete well. After creating a new guide, the first thing I do is type a bunch of keyword phrases to Google eyeballing the suggestions as I go. I get a list of suggestions, check out the top results, and choose a list of keyword phrases for use in my guide as both tags, and incorporated into the writing on the page.

Experimental Results for this Guide

Initially, the same techniques as described herein were used to trigger the Google bots to index my guide sooner. After checking the search a few times, just a little while ago, not even 24 hours later, it was indexed.