Monday, January 19, 2009

Blogs, SEO and Google

Getting listed in Google fast was very simple and super easy. In fact all you have to do is read this blog from the beginning and you can see the very simple steps that I took to get my last site, ezpondideas.com listed in google in less than a day. It was so fast in fact that it could have been listed in hours of submitting my xml site map to Google but I did not do an hourly check to see when it was listed so all I can say is that it was in less than 17 hours. Perhaps with my next site I will make an effort to get an hourly check done.

Okay, so bla bla bla... you're thinking, Chrisi, just spill it. Tell us how to get listed in less than 24 hours.

Well, I don't wanna just spill it, there's more for you to learn. Ha! Let me just say that if you can get your site listed in less than a month you're doing better than most. Although many sites can remain unknown for months due to a lack of understanding how the search engines find them.

So, to get listed within a week, here's a reminder of how to get it done...

EzineArticles.com is a wonderful article directory. And if you can get them to post your article on their front page, you're sure to get your link that you place in your authors box noticed. This is how I was able to get my www.reddingseo.com site listed in 6 days. At this time I didn't have this blog created so that is the route I took to get noticed quickly.

Right now my site has a page 1 listing for the search term, Redding SEO. I'm not working too hard on getting it listed on page 1 for Redding search engine optimization at this point, but over time it will happen naturally as my site has quality content and I'm slowly adding backlinks to this site.

Now then... if you are not up to writing an article yourself, hire someone from elance.com or scriptlance.com to write one for you. Don't hire someone "cheap". You want a quality article if you're submitting to ezinearticles.com. I've established myself as an expert author so every article I write gets posted on the main page. It seems easy to get the expert status, but in reality I really don't know how easy it is. I write quality content so since I never write crap, I can't say if you write a junky article that you won't be considered an expert, but I can say that if you write a quality article you "should" obtain the expert status.

Okay, so either write the article yourself, or pay to have it written for you. Ghost writers are a easy to get online from the outsourcing sites. A quality article will cost you about $12.00 give or take a few bucks.

Ezpondideas.com was even easier for me to get noticed by Google than Reddingseo.com. Why? Well, I'll tell you that I did not have to write an article and submit it to ezinearticles.com. Nope, that was not necessary. And in fact I have yet to do so. I didn't submit any articles to anywhere until "after" Google listed it.

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So, how did I do it?

Really? Hm...

I will be back again later and tell you... maybe. ;)

Until then,
Chrisi D.