{"id":1803,"date":"2011-05-26T04:43:22","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T04:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/?p=1803"},"modified":"2024-01-15T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T14:10:18","slug":"improve-indexing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/improve-indexing\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Methods to Improve Indexing For Your Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Search-engine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-599\" style=\"border: thick solid #7a7c85;\" title=\"Search engine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Search-engine-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"website editing to improve indexing\" width=\"270\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a>Improve indexing <\/strong>rates\u00a0for your site by following our hints and tips for improving your attractiveness to search engines like Google.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>How to Improve Indexing<\/h2>\n<p>One of the most popular discussions that you will see in the Google forums revolve around indexing and many people complain that their new content isn\u2019t appearing online.\u00a0 It would be ideal if Google visited your site on a daily basis and content was instantly available in search engine rankings, but this will only ever happen if, and when, Google recognizes how great your site it.<\/p>\n<p>While you cannot forcibly improve indexing and Google&#8217;s crawl rate, there are some things you can do to get Google to visit your site more often. \u00a0Before you look at the steps I have outlined below, make sure your site is actually indexed by Google. \u00a0If not, you&#8217;ll need to visit Google and add it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Improve Indexing<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-One-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2106\" title=\"Vappingo One Correct\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-One-01.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of the number one\" width=\"57\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a>Produce unique content, regularly and often.<\/strong> If you reuse old content or extract your content from article syndicates, you will find that it is quite some time before Google indexes your new pages.\u00a0 In some cases, it may not index them at all.\u00a0 Google doesn\u2019t like duplicate content, and if it recognizes the articles or pages you have published from elsewhere on the web, there is a high chance it will disregard them.\u00a0 At the very best it will place your content very low in the rankings.\u00a0 However, if you create new content on a regular basis that is very unique, Google will be encouraged to visit regularly, and it will increase your crawl rate; it likes rapidly evolving sites! \u00a0So the basic rule of thumb for web search optimization is to put effort into creating content that your readers will not have seen before, this will naturally increase Google crawl rate. If you have a large amount of content that isn&#8217;t unique, consider getting it rewritten so that you can avoid duplicate content issues. Try our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/Rewriting-Services\/\">rewriting services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-Two-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2105\" title=\"Vappingo Two Correct\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-Two-01.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of the number two\" width=\"57\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a>Make sure Google robots can crawl your site. <\/strong> The Google crawlers will only spend a limited amount of time crawling your site before moving on to another site.\u00a0 Make sure that Google can crawl your site quickly and effectively so that it can cover as many pages as possible during its visit.\u00a0 Here are some things to look out for:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-1\">\n<li>Pages that are slow to load.\u00a0 If the search robots spend a long time crawling large images and files, they may not be able to reference many of your pages during their visit.<\/li>\n<li>Duplicate contact on the site.\u00a0 Do you have several pages that contain the same content but on different URLs?\u00a0 If so, consider removing it.\u00a0 It will confuse the search spiders and delay the rate at which they can crawl your site.<\/li>\n<li>Broken pages. \u00a0Does your site always work correctly?\u00a0 Google\u2019s Webmaster Tools has a great area that can allow you to see crawl errors.\u00a0 This is useful for identifying any issues that your site has.\u00a0 Fix any errors as soon as possible in order to ensure that Google spiders can crawl your site effectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-Three-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2104\" title=\"Vappingo Three Correct\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-Three-01.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of the number three\" width=\"57\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a>Ask Google to visit more often.<\/strong> Google\u2019s Webmaster Tools can help when you are trying to improve indexing for your website.\u00a0 If your site is slightly older, you can request that Google increases the crawl rate through the <em>Setting<\/em>s screen on the dashboard.\u00a0 I personally would not advise this because Google generally sets the crawl rate according to what it believes your site server can handle.\u00a0 Even if you set the crawl rate to \u201cfastest\u201d the rate at which the spider can crawl the site will be impacted by the server response time.\u00a0 If your server is unable to accommodate Google\u2019s crawl speed, it will remember this and revisit at a later date with a reduced crawl speed.<\/p>\n<p>N.B.: \u00a0This option is only available to sites that have been established for some time.\u00a0 If you see the following message in your Google Webmaster Tools account, you cannot change the crawl rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour site has been assigned special crawl rate settings.\u00a0 You will not be able to change the crawl rate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-Four-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2103\" title=\"Vappingo Four Correct\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-Four-01.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of the number four\" width=\"57\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a>Add your sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools.<\/strong> Make sure that you regularly update your sitemap and that an xml version of it is available in Google Webmaster Tools.\u00a0 The sitemap will give Google additional information about your URL structure and this will improve indexing because it will help Google to crawl your site more efficiently.\u00a0 Be careful when using online sitemap generators because many of these sites are only interested in gaining access to the data on your website, and they do nothing to help your web search optimization efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-Five-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2102\" title=\"Vappingo Five Correct\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-Five-01.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of the number five\" width=\"57\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a>Write and publish an article with a link back to your site. <\/strong>I notice that every time one of my articles is published on any of the free article sites\u00a0like eZine, the link back to my site triggers Google to recrawl and index my content.\u00a0 Creating backlinks by posting comments on other blogs or writing press releases will have the same effect (check out our free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/free-press-release-template\/\">press release template<\/a>).\u00a0 Try and avoid spamming though, as many people will just remove spam links and you will have wasted your time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-Six-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2101\" title=\"Vappingo Six-01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-Six-01.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of the number six\" width=\"57\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a>Ping Google. <\/strong>Let them know that you\u2019ve updated your content.\u00a0 While you\u2019re at it, ping all the major search engines services.\u00a0 Many blogging platforms, like WordPress, have a ping plug-in that you can download.\u00a0 Such services inform 100s of URLs that you\u2019ve updated your site, and this may lure the spider to crawl your site and aid your search rankings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-Seven-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2100\" title=\"Vappingo Seven-01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Vappingo-Seven-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"57\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a>Create dynamic content.<\/strong> Dynamic content can attract bots to your site and it is, therefore, worthwhile considering including an area on your site that creates random content.\u00a0 Many blogging platforms offer dynamic content plug-ins and widgets that show random posts from the blog or random quotes and sayings.\u00a0 By including these, you frequently change the content without doing any work, and this may help to improve the rate at which Google indexes your site content.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Vappingo-eight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2110\" title=\"Vappingo eight correct\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Vappingo-eight.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of the number eight\" width=\"43\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>Interlink your website pages.<\/strong> Many people don&#8217;t realize this, but internal linking is just as important as external linking. \u00a0Ensure that you use simple links throughout your site and check them on a regular basis to ensure that they are still working; Google does not like broken links. \u00a0An effective internal linking structure will allow both your\u00a0customers and Google to easily navigate your site, and this is a crucial element of good SEO. Many blogging packages, like WordPress, automatically insert trackbacks when you add a link. \u00a0These will ping Google, and you will find that your new content is indexed within hours.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Vappingo-Nine-Final-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2154\" title=\"Vappingo nine\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Vappingo-Nine-Final-01.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of the number nine\" width=\"57\" height=\"57\" \/><\/a>Use unique title and description metatags on every page.<\/strong> Some blogging packages use the same metatags on every page. \u00a0This is not effective, and the Google robots may assume that the content is duplicate. \u00a0Google Webmaster Tools will highlight any pages that have duplicate metatags; deal with them as soon as you can in order to improve the overall crawl rate of your site.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Vappingo-ten.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2155\" title=\"Vappingo ten\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/word-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Vappingo-ten.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of the number ten\" width=\"66\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a>Ensure that you optimize the images that you use on your site<\/strong>. \u00a0By doing this, you allow Google to read your full page. Optimizing images\u00a0makes them search engine friendly so Google can scan your page more effectively and can quickly move onto the next page, thus improving your overall crawl rate.<\/p>\n<p>If you need help to improve indexing and increase your website ranking, you should consider using our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/Editing-Services\/Web-Content-Editing\">web content editing<\/a> services. \u00a0Order online today!<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: 1em; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 1.8em; text-align: left; display: inline ! important;\" align=\"center\"><a class=\"big-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vappingo.com\/your-vappingo\/order\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong><strong>Free instant quote<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improve indexing rates\u00a0for your site by following our hints and tips for improving your attractiveness to search engines like Google. 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