There has always been a lot of discussion as to the best ways to get a site quickly indexed by Google. You can spend a fortune buying up all of the e-books and programs that promise instant search engine results. Many of these techniques can get your site blacklisted. It’s very easy and simple to do things the right way without risking your site’s inclusion before it even gets off the ground.

Assuming that there are no outside or technical issues preventing your site from being spidered you should find it relatively easy getting included.

I have brought dozens of sites online over the years and I have never had a problem getting indexed by Google within twenty four hours. In fact, just yesterday I uploaded a brand new site to our server with a brand new domain name and had it indexed in half a dozen locations in less than an hour. It doesn’t rank high but it is there. With that said, I’m certainly not an SEO expert or even in the field. I just hate to see so many people throw money at something this simple just to risk being penalized later.

You can submit it once at at google.com/addurl but that takes a while and still doesn’t guarantee your site’s inclusion. There’s certainly no reason to continue submitting your site once it is indexed.

It Is This Easy

Get a site that is already being indexed (the higher the rank the better) to link to your site on a page that gets spidered. It’s that simple! It’s not rocket science and it doesn’t take a so-called SEO expert to get you there. By the way, as a side note, most of those ‘SEO experts‘ can’t even get their own sites beyond a Google PageRank of three or four. Be careful who you give your money to.

If you already have a site that fits the bill then you are way ahead of the game. Set a link from the already established site’s front page and Googlebot should follow the link.

Need Outside Help?

If you need to get your backlinks from other sources, and you do if you want any rank or search engine traffic, then start by taking advantage of the social networks, related sites, article directories, and high quality directories such as Dmoz and Yahoo. Remember, this article is about getting indexed, not getting to the top of the search results.

Quality Content

Google likes to see sites build links naturally and by merit. If  it looks spammy or mass-generated you are in trouble. Don’t get greedy and impatient. Always write quality and original content. This includes content on your site and content on the sites linking to you. Unique and relivent content will help your cause. Well established sites considered high ranking in Google’s eyes will boost you to the top in many instances.

Make It Count

Another thing to keep in mind when using outside resource to get indexed is the rel=nofollow microformat. Find sites that do not add this attribute to outside links. If they do then Google won’t bother following the backlinks to your site. Here’s a couple online lists to get you started:

Huge List of DoFollow Sites!

The Definitive List of Big Dofollow Social Bookmarking Sites

TIP: There is a better solution than viewing the page source when checking to see if a site is using the rel=nofollow microformat on it’s outside links. I use the Firefox browser with the SeoQuake plugin. The SeoQuake plugin has a Line-through “nofollow” and “noindex” setting that informs you instantly if a link is tagged with the rel=”nofollow” attribute. Here is an easy to follow article on how to achieve this: How to detect rel=nofollow using firefox

Avoid Black Hat Tactics

Avoid black hat or even gray hat schemes. Stay clear of web rings, link farms, free-for-all (FFA) sites, link directories and paid links. These methods are nothing but trouble.

Extra Credit:

Here’s a cool fact that I have long suspected but is now confirmed - Google ignores the meta keywords tag. They do use the title tag. You can learn many other relevant things like that from Google Webmaster Help. Here’s what Google says about Adding a site to Google.