Ways To Get Your Website Crawled More Often

1579 days ago

Have you ever wondered how some sites get crawled so often? I mean, they updated it and in no time, it gets indexed by Google and you can see them on the index already. Usually you can see those like news or media sites which get the most love from Google. How do you get Googlebot to crawl your site more often? It’s actually very simple really. I will provide you with some tips to get your site indexed faster and more often.

1. Push Googlebot to updated pages. Use robots.txt wisely to get them spiders to those new pages which you would like to get indexed. Disallow spiders from entering those pages which are of no use to your site like those contact pages and so on. And make use of Sitemaps to tell Googlebot where to crawl and which pages are new. Whenever you update or add a page, you should always update your sitemap. Use Google’s Sitemaps to help find out any problem with your submitted sitemaps. You will also need to ensure that your site is crawlable and navigable.

2. Update your content. Yes, you should update your content often. Once Google knows that your site is updated often, they will send their spiders your way more often as well. You see, Google loves new content and they want their own index to be up-to-date as well. I would recommend updating your site once per day with real content which your visitors will find useful. Or just to tell them that you are alive.
3. Authority. Well, it’s same as content but Google seems to like sites which they believe to be an “Authority” on a particular subject. So, your content and information on your site should be useful and informative as well. Usually for experts in a certain field. Once you get into Google’s good books, they will send Googlebots to your site like crazy. And you will rank better as well.

4. Links. What else. Probably the most important is backlinks to your site. You will need plenty of them and from various and related sources. This is possibly linked to how Authoritative your site is and vice versa. Usually Authority Sites get a lot of backlinks and this will definitively get some spiders coming your way. And as with authority, having good content will ensure of that. If you get strong backlinks, you will most likely be crawled more often.

The reason why getting your site indexed and crawled often is important is that it gives you an edge in Search Engine results. Only once you GET your content into Google’s index before you can rank. If it is not indexed at all, then it will never rank and anyone searching will never get to your site. Basically, you need to get indexed first in order to rank.

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