Part Time Webmaster Blog

The direct link to the Google Search Engine Submission page is here: http://www.google.com/addurl/.

But, before you proceed, this is probably not the fastest way to get indexed. The fastest way is to add your site link to someone else’s site! For example, you can add your site link here, we’re indexed.

Another easy way is to create a blog at Google’s blogger.com, then reference your site. Once you create your blog, make sure to do the following:

1. Log into the admin
2. Click on the settings tab
3. Scroll down and choose YES for the question, “Add your blog to our listings?”
4. Then, choose YES to the question Let Search engines find your blog?

I haven’t tested the speed of adding your link to a Google Blog, but I have noticed getting listed in a couple of days with by adding your link to another site.

The easiest way to see if you are listed is to search for your domain name. For example, do a Google search for parttimewebmaster.com

Google’s search algorithm is advanced, I’ve never actually sat down and tried to figure it out. But, time and time again, it seems as though, they (Google) always mentions DMOZ.org. So what is dmoz?

According to DMOZ, here is a description of the site and service:

The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.

So, why do I need to know this? Google uses dmoz to help give credibility to sites. It’s Google’s way of cross referencing a site by having an actual human look at the site. So, if you get your site into DMOZ, chances are your rankings will go up. If your visibility doesn’t go up, so be it. But, if anything, you only lost about 5 minutes of your time, so what do you have to lose.

So, here’s how to submit your site to the DMOZ open directory.

1. Go to dmoz.org
2. In the search box, type in your website address. Example: parttimewebmaster.com
3. If it comes up, you’re golden, if not continue.
4. Search for an appropriate category until you see the option to Submit a URL. Make sure the directory is not too overloaded, choose a more focused and smaller group if possible. This may help speed the process. This hasn’t been validated.
5. Once you’ve found the directory, click on Submit URL and enter your information.
6. Wait…wait. It can take a long time to get into dmoz, but one day you’ll get in there.

Best of luck!

Not too long ago, I wrote an article on how to choose my next blog post. In it, I discussed how you can use Google Trends to find the next topic to write about. Well, most of us may not have a blog. For those of us that don’t and are looking to make money through ecommerce or their services, it would be nice to see what types of leads the competition is getting. So, if I’m selling a service, I want to market the latest trend to get business. After all, I don’t want to optimize my site for something no one wants. So, here are some steps on taking advantages of the latest trends in your industry.

1. Choose a service or product you want to sell.
2. Run a google search on it.
3. Copy down (or keep a browser tab open) of the top websites found.
4. Go to Google Trends
5. Type in these website addresses into the Google trends search box, and hit search.
6. Chances are, you may not get any results, so look below the search box and click on the link titled “Websites”
7. Now, you may see some results.
8. Continue searching until you see something pop up in the section on the right titled “Also searched for”
9. Now, you have your latest trend!

Best of luck!