Indexing your website

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In our last post Internet Work from Home-Promoting your website(1) we looked at 5 basic steps you need to take.  These were

Step 1 :find affiliate products
Step 2 :get keywords
Step 3 :find out your SEO competition.
Step 4: Get domain and hosting for your website
Step 5: do Search Engine Optimization on your website (get trained first)

The training is very important.  I have found, whether it was my Christian home based business, or internet marketing affiliate business or my work in Direct Sales companies I have gone furthest when I had good training and good trainers.

Now you should have your domain registered, have done your initial keyword research and got your hosting sorted out.

Step 6: Make sure your URL is indexed successfully.

Indexing means that the Major Search Engines can find you, which is obviously very important.  You should follow a series of basic checks to make sure that there a minimum of errors on your site.  You may not be able to see any errors, but the “spiders” which traverse your site periodically will read the code in the background and will not like lots of errors-it will lead to low ranking for your site and make you practically invisible to the people who you want to find you online.

This is another reason it behoves you to join a good affiliate online program to guide you step by step as you set up your site.  When you’ve ironed out the creases, as best as you are able, them you can submit your domain name or url to the “Big 3″ site engines-just click on the link or image links below if you are ready to do that (the url will be something like this: http://mydomainname.com):

Tips to getting your site indexed more quickly

1. Put a Sitemap in
   Make sure your sub pages are easily accessible by search engine bots. Create a sitemap page that links to all pages of your website and place a link to it from the homepage. If you have a large website, break the site map up in several parts and keep the total link number under 100 per page. Link from your homepage to deep pages to get them and the sites around them crawled faster.  If using Wordpress they have a Sitemaps plugin, which is handy in this Web positioning process .
2. No session IDs
   Get rid of session IDs. Bots rarely index pages with a session IDs because they think that those are different pages (because of the different IDs) with the same content.
3. Avoid variables in the URLs
   Avoid variables in the URL. They are indexed slowly and often getting no PageRank. Use Apache’s mod_rewrite feature to convert your dynamic pages to static. Redirect all old pages to the new ones with a 301 redirect. Note however that if you do that for your established website, search engines will need some time to crawl the new static pages.
4. Get links. Inbound (incoming) links are half of the SEO battle nowadays. Your website needs links from quality, on topic  websites.      The higher your PageRank the faster and deeper your website will be crawled by bots. Get links not only to your home page, but also to the deep pages. Make sure the spiders can find your site from different places

Now that you have that all set up hopefully we are ready to put ADVERTS in and make some money. I expect,if you are like me, you are still grappling with some of the terms I used in this post and are beginning to see the light but need a Search Engine optimization for Dummies course to help you get started. Or you need a refresher. Look no further. Click on th link below. There is no risk to the Year of the Affiliate course-it comes with a money-back guarantee, and if you are paying from the U.K you’ll be quids in with the conversion rate, and even U.S dollars have still not slid below the Aussie dollar-so dive in now and click on the image below!

Have a great day!
John Reason,
Salesman, Article writer, Independent Researcher and Internet Marketer.
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