SEO Step By Step Guide– 64. How to Get Google’s Attention

Getting Google’s attention is one of the major preoccupations of webmasters. After we launch our website we need to let Google know about our website. Google has suggested webmasters a number of ways how we can let them know about our websites. The first factor or approach that comes to our mind in this regard is Google’s Add URL page. However, you will be surprised to learn that Google does not include their Add URL page as one of the suggested ways to tell them about your new website. If you have been content so far with submitting your website to Google this way and thinking that you will be indexed, you may have to do some thing more to get Google’s attention.

One of the best methods in Google’s list is the sitemap. One of Google’s unique features is Google Sitemap. This is different from the regular sitemaps that we find in the websites. Google Sitemap is not meant for public access. It is reserved for Google bots. You can let Google know about your website and about the nature of updates that you make through the sitemap.

The next important and effective way to get Google’s attention is to have a news section in your website. Press releases are one of the fastest ways of getting Google’s search bots to your site and to get your site indexed in the shortest time. Google also recommends the usage of Google News Sitemaps. This will tell Google the frequency of your news updation. Currently the only supported language to News Sitemaps is English. It is not necessary that only new for fresh news has to be submitted to Google news. You are free to submit your old news articles to Google’s news archive section. Google is content hungry it will accept content in all forms so feed Google with good content and you can be sure of getting the required attention. Not many webmasters are aware of the effectiveness of press releases and Google’s news archive section. So if you have not done anything in this regard go ahead and start promoting your website by submitting newsworthy content to Google news.

The next interesting way suggested by Google is to bank on your website images and photos. Include your images and photos for Google’s image search. Though inclusion in Google image search listings will not fetch a considerable amount of traffic, it will certainly create another door for the search engine bots to visit your website.

The secret lies in giving Google bot enough reason to visit your website often. Besides these Google also recommends you to make use of YouTube. You can upload your videos and product demos to YouTube and link them to your site. YouTube attracts millions of visitors every day. If your video content is compelling, you will get lot of traffic through YouTube.

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