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How Long Does It Take For Google To Index Your Website?

Posted by Paul B | August 7, 2008 .

I spent all of yesterday creating a new content website, I think I’ve found another one of those little niches that whilst it won’t make you rich it will easily make an instant profit for relatively little work. I was going to go trough my usual routine of hooking up whatever related content I have to it and giving it that launch pad, it’s a great way of getting an almost instant return (on that massive $8 domain expense!)

Instead though I’m going to do something a little different with this one. What happens if you’re totally new to this game? If you don’t have a set of established websites to help Google find your new website? I’m treating this website as if it is my very first, I’m new and I want my site appearing “somewhere” in the search results. If you didn’t know any better and you believed all those adverts out there for services to “get your site indexed quick” you’d think that indexing was a slow process, does it really take days, weeks or months? I’m going to try and find out.

My strategy to test this is simple, I’m only going to use the resources that are 100% under my control to get my site indexed. I just want indexed at the moment, I’m not bothered about where in the SERPs I appear. So first things first, I’ve gone and created a sitemap. I prefer to use this rather funky and fully featured sitemap generator. I then sign up at Google’s Webmaster Tools website and create an entry for my new domain. The webmaster tools allow me to verify me website (confirming that I own it) and then I can submit the sitemap that I generated. Google are now aware of not only my website, but also the individual URLs for the pages that make up that website. I consider that an essential step with any website I create.

The second thing I want to do is get some free back links, I need quick back links from pages that the search engines crawl and follow frequently. Sounds like a bit of a challenge doesn’t it? Not really though. There are a number of services out there that have detailed reports on domains (age traffic etc), one of the easiest ways of getting a few quick back links is to check for your new domain with these services. This automatically creates a page for your site at their end, these sites tend to be getting crawled all the time. So I’ve checked my domain out at the following places (just replace yourdomainhere.com):-

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/yourdomainhere.com
http://www.urltrends.com/viewtrend.php?url=www.yourdomainhere.com
http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_checker?domain=www.yourdomainhere.com
http://www.toolurl.com/search-domains.php?url=www.yourdomainhere.com

And that’s all I’ve done. I didn’t want to create forum users and post enough to get a signature, I didn’t want to rely on having blog comments not only approved but followed. Basically I’ve done this as simple as possible just to see how long it takes before some of my pages start to appear. I’ll be checking it every morning and will let you know as soon as I’ve got any pages indexed, my guess is 3-4 days.

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  1. web hosting UNITED STATES Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1  August 8, 2008 1:33 am

    i also wanted to add to self-submit it to “dofollow” social sites…there’s like 30 of them…it’s reasonable easy to do (other than the pain of signing up with 30 social sites).

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  2. Paul B UNITED KINGDOM Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16  August 8, 2008 9:44 am

    Cheers that’s a great tip as well, delicious is always worth a bookmark!

    Day 1, no index.

  3. Paul B UNITED KINGDOM Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.16  August 13, 2008 3:14 pm

    Day 7, indexed. So it took 7 days all in with no extra help to get that new site indexed in Google. That’s not bad at all! Yahoo and MSN are still lagging behind though.

  4. animal experiences UNITED KINGDOM Windows XP Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1  August 13, 2008 3:38 pm

    Submitting to digg is a good way of getting google interested too

  5. Social Media Learning UNITED STATES Windows Vista Mozilla Firefox 3.0  August 19, 2008 1:59 am

    It seems sites with little to no content simply don’t get indexed? It seems to be the case with my recent venture (that has yet to launch)