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In this edition of OK to Make Money Online, we need to get your site properly indexed. No one, not even Google, will guarantee you will get indexed. Because there are many unknown factors that are part of Google’s internal algorithms, we will follow best practices. Don’t worry you will most likely be indexed.

So, look at the best practices outlined so far:

1) You have a proper blog setup and active using either Blogger account or a domain name hosting WordPress or Joomla.

2) Make sure your long tail keywords are in your title and first paragraphs.

3) You have an “About” page that includes your long tail keyword and a back link to your site.

4) Using Google’s Privacy Page example, you have modified it and posted the page.

5) Check that your site is verified and contains a Sitemap link in Google.

6) You have posted at least two 300-word articles on your site.

7) Ten tags per article with one keyword included as a tag. Makes no sense.
You have multiple categories, if you blog software supports them.

9) You have installed your Technorati link and claimed your site.

In order for someone to find you, we need to tell Google you are here and ready to receive traffic. This is where indexing comes in, so let us get started.

We set up your Adsense account in our previous article, “Make Money – Adsense,” so log in to the account we created. Start by selecting the “Resources” tab near the top. On this page, select the “Webmaster guidelines” under the Reference heading. You will now be taken to the “Webmasters/Site owners Help” page, under the heading “When your site is ready,” you will see a hyperlink to addurl.html. Click the addurl.html hyperlink.

This will take you to Google’s “Add your URL to Google” page. Enter your URL name, add a comment and add your keyword, it can’t hurt. Enter the verification name displayed in squiggly letters and press the Add URL button.

Google will display a confirmation message to notify you that you did everything correctly. Now be patient and wait for the GoogleBot to crawl your new site. Meanwhile, get started writing and posting your next article.

On the next OK to Make Money online we will take a look at SEO for your blog or website.

BigBear

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