Welcome to Step #6 in building your niche website. So far you have learned to Find Profitable Keywords, Find the Right Domain Name, Setup Cheap Hosting, Pointing Your DNS to Your Hosting Account and Setting up Your Niche Site from a Provided Template.
Now we want to get your site indexed and the fastest way to do this is to build links to it. Don’t waste time submitting it to search engines. When I first linked to the site I have created called HorseTrailerUniverse it got indexed within 24 hours because of that ONE link from my blog. It can’t get much easier than that.
One of the best ways I know of to slowly build some ranking is to have any older sites you have link to the new one. It doesn’t have to be forever and most often a timeframe of one month will do just fine. That will create some initial spidering. Even websites with a PR3 or PR4 will do.
In the meantime you have time to start building some external links to your site. One of the most effective ways I know of is to start writing a few articles and submitting them to article directories like EzineArticles.com. By writing just 2-3 good lengthy (500-600 words) articles with 1-2 links back to your site you will start to see some traffic within that first month.
Now you need to remember that this is not some “get rich fast scheme” and you might as well start out by accepting that you won’t seen many result until after a few months. All you need to focus on is to create content related to the good keywords that you found and then build links and links and links.
Besides submitting articles you should try to attract some links from sites within your niche. If you’re into “fly fishing” you might try to attract links from other “outdoor sites” or even other sites about “fly fishing”. If you can get a one way links that will benefit you the most but reciprocal links will also work (swapping links).
Remember to use your keywords in the anchor text of the link and direct it to the subpage for that particular keyword. If you have picked your keywords right you will not need that many links to get some fair rankings.
I order for me to show you the progress of the site I have created and to give you some inspiration I’ve only linked to the site from this blog + one PR3 site + added one article to EzineArticles and that is it. Over the next couple of weeks I will provide you with updates about what I have done (and will be doing) and how my stats are. Your job is to then transfer that to the niche you have chosen for yourself.
As you can see from my statistics the site has been operational since August 28th which is about 20 days. I haven’t done any other promotion of the site and yet it shows 44 visits. I assume that about 20 of those are my own (even though I have tried to eliminate them through an IP block).
Besides that I have just tested where I rank for some of my main keywords and it looks really good but I’ll save the details for my next post where I’ll talk much more about building links and adding content.
July 25th, 2008
July 24th, 2008
5 Comments at "Get Your Site Indexed Fast and Start Building Links"
Great article Mikael. I am not an SEO expert by any means but your article writing strategy has certainly worked for me. I set up a web site to promote and sell my first book in late 2005. Virtually all of my traffic came from the articles I wrote and submitted to various submission sites. From there, I was indexed and began receiving traffic from other means.
Now I have my blog, but my books still receive a great deal of attention from the articles I write! Thanks for your tips.
Hi Daniel!
I’m glad you like the article. The indexing and linkbuilding part isn’t “hard”. It just takes an awful long time
Mikael, This is a great article. I am new at blogging and getting traffic to my site is,in a word, difficult. Thanks for the ideas for getting indexed.
-Tommy
Mikael,
Is it possible (or advised) to use duplicate content from the website in the article that is submitted, or should the article feature totally unique content? If so, is it enough to just paraphrase yourself to avoid having to come up with completely new content on a topic you’ve already researched?
Cheers, I just discovered your site today and I’m learning a lot!
-Laurence
Laurence,
It would definitely recommend that you never use any content that is already on your website for distribution as well. Most article sites will have higher credibility and pagerank than your site so why run the risk of have Google etc. see your site as the duplicate content.
As for you own site you can easily paraphrase yourself as long as you do it to an extent that will be at least 20-25% unique compared to the original article.
If you “borrow” an article from someone else, I would recommend going for 75% unique paraphrasing.
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