Sounds unbelievable? Maybe, but it worked on a
website I developed over the last few days. It wasn’t an aged domain and
nominet confirms that the web addresses:
www.linkbuildingmachine.co.uk has never been registered. I’m not sure how it got listed so quickly, but here is an insight into my workflow…
As always, the key factor, a well developed website.
linkbuildingmachine, makes good use of page titles, descriptions and keywords, rollover title text etc, using a database to generate real time and descriptive meta tags.
- 9am The domain linkbuildingmachine.co.uk was registered and the webpage’s uploaded.
- 915am website url is submitted to Google Webmaster tools. A sitemap.xml feed is submitted to Google, Bing and Yahoo! using the free xml generator.
- 10am Google Ad words code added to the website, according to web stats, Googlebot crawled the site 15 minutes later.
- 11am Ingoing links to the site are added to facebook, blogger, twitter and half a dozen other social networks. You need to setup your social network profiles to be publicly viewable, otherwise they won’t get crawled. I also added links from some personal domains...
...All with Google page ranks varying from 2-7
12pm….I used automated site submission website
addme.com to submit the website to a further 10 or so web directories, and then manually submitted to the big players (Google, Yahoo, Bing)
4pm - site listed in Google, page 1 second listing!
Summary
Two things to note, for the last couple of years new websites I have developed tended to be listed in Bing sometimes weeks before getting a Google listing and Google’s process of holding back the ranking of newly registered domains can be frustrating. It seems that this isn't always the case as this domain appears to be holding its rank.
My guesses are that maybe it was
Google Caffeine’s real time search of social networks that enabled the website to be listed so quickly, but then again it could be the Ad Words crawling???.... to make sure it delivered relevant adverts. Who really knows?
