How to Get Your Adsense Sites Indexed Quickly
I’ve been busy creating some new Adsense sites and I thought i’d share some thoughts on this blog about my experiments. In the past month, I’ve began diversifying my Internet Marketing strategy and one of the changes I’ve made is to cut down on Arbitrage sites and focus more on SEO.
I’ve gathered over 500 articles (Private Label) across 15 niches and have started putting the sites together using blogger and wordpress blogs and XsitePro for speed. Each site has about 30 pages targetting long tail keywords and one of the tasks that I’d have to overcome was getting the sites indexed quickly (within 48 hours).
It’s been one year since I last built a proper Adsense niche site and, as such, I had to learn about any new techniques to get indexed ranked quickly into the major search engines. Finding information on this was not very difficult. Most of my knowledge came from reading blog, forums, past experience and my own experiments.
Here are some of my findings:
- Websites in niches with over 1 million competition took longer to index than those that had less competition. The sites that had below 1 million competing websites (keyword without the quotes) took less than 48 hours to index into Google using my methods (explained later). An example of this is the “Stress Management” niche versus “Tennis Racquet Stringing Machines”.
- MSN is very easy to rank for keywords using just article submissions. I achieved top 3 rankings for a variety of keywords.
- Google indexed my sites quicker than Yahoo and Msn. Google took approximately 48 hours whereas MSN and Yahoo can take up to one week.
- The Title tag is very important for keyword ranking purposes. Your keyword should always be in the Title.
- After some of my sites got indexed in Google, pages from my sites started to show up for long tail keywords, most of them on page 2.
- Blogger blogs did not rank better than wordpress or xsitepro built sites.
- Submitting sites using just OnlyWire did not get any sites indexed within 48 hours.
- Submitting sites to Netscape indexed some sites within 48 hours.
How I Got Indexed
I knew that getting indexed was all about getting links but the problem was how to generate lots of links in a short space of time. I had always went down the article writing route in the past, but writing articles was boring and one of the main reasons why I stopped creating Adsense sites to focus more on arbitrage.
For this experiment, I used a combination of the following methods:
- Submitted stories to Netscape
- Bookmarked to OnlyWire
- Submitted one article to Article Marketer
- Outsourced directory submissions (at DigitalPoint Forums)
- Used Comment Hut to comment on Blogs
Using the methods above, all of the pages on my site were indexed by Google and some of them are beginning to show on MSN and Yahoo. I’m seeing a small trickle of traffic going to my newly built sites and I’m confident that I’ll be able to grab some good keyword rankings with more backlinks.
Steps For The Future
I realise that to be efficient at ranking and indexing, more control is needed. Due to this, I’ll be aiming to create (and purchase) a network of high PR blogs and sites that they can be used to link to new sites so that they can be indexed quicker.
Final Thoughts
Overall, it was a nice experience going back to creating Adsense sites. With more PLR sites than ever before, finding content for a site is easy. Hopefully after few more weeks of linkbuilding, I’ll be able to see some Adsense and Affiliate earnings from my 15 new sites.
If all goes well, I’ll begin developing a more efficient system for indexing and ranking in search engines using long term whitehat strategies.
Google Adwords - Pay Per Action Beta Test
Google announced their Pay per action model today and is offering people in the US a chance to beta test. Although I’m not eligible to participate (I’m from the UK), I can already see some great ways that advertisers could use this new model.
John Reel shares his views and talks more in depth about the new advertising model:
“The first new addition is their new “text link format” ad unit. This was almost buried in the main announcement, and will be of great interest to people making money from Adsense.
The new ad unit is ad that appears inline with your text. This means that you can now add ads right into the middle of a sentence on your page, instead of off to the side. This makes them appear like regular links. The only way people know they are a Google advertisement is the addition of the hover-text, “Ads by Google”, that is displayed when you mouse-over the link.
The second new addition is the main focus of their announcement. They are introducing pay-per-action in addition to the existing pay-per-click model.
Normally, we are paying for clicks, which means we have to be quite diligent about looking for click-fraud. We are also paying for a lot of clicks that don’t result in anything. Every time someone clicks our ads, we pay, even if they just bounce off our page and back.
With pay-per-action, we only pay when the visitor has completed some kind of action… like opting into our list. So now, instead of paying for tons of eyeballs that don’t result in anything, we can choose to only pay for solid leads.”
I think this move by Google will help increase the quality of content on sites and also make it more difficult for Adsense arbitrage. I’m not sure what kind of effect this will have on Adsense earnings of existing sites but my guess is that they might take a hit.
From the advertiser point of view, I see this as good news because now you don’t have to pay for every click to your site - you just pay for quality visitors when they perform a specified action i.e. signup (in theory anyway…um…what happens if someone signs up on your email form 10 times with different email addresses?..)
I have no idea if this new Pay-Per-Action model will benefit advertisers and publishers, but new things like this always get me hot and bothered about brand new money-making opportunities.
Internet Marketing Blogs, Forums and Other Resources
Internet marketing blogs and forums are good resources for learning about methods that other people are using. I rememeber when I first started getting into internet marketing I use to spend a lot of time soaking up all the information I could get on IM. It was fascinating and reading other people’s success stories were motivating.
Fast forward 3 years later and now I rarely read forums or blogs. I realised that reading forums, in particular, were a waste of time. I already know most of the answers / discussions from my own research and a lot of the time the posts are passing out incorrect information. Don’t get me wrong, I still help people out with the odd post sometimes (I have 45 posts to my name on the Warrior Forum, woo!).
Anyway, the point of this post was not to say stay away from forums because, they are still a good source of information - just don’t take the information on forums as fact. Here’s a few forums I read:
WickedFire Forums - WickedFire is a good place with some quality good information. The forum has a “dark” feel to it but the tactics discussed are very clever and worth a read.
Warrior Forum - The Warrior Forum was one of the first internet marketing forums I found out about and is the forum that motivated me to give Internet Marketing a try. I joined at a time where there were many quality posts, I feel the quality has died down a bit but there’s the odd post that still holds my interest. This is a great place for beginners for beginners to start.
There are loads more forums but the two mentioned above are the ones I frequent the most. Some blogs I read are:
BlueHatSeo - This is a great blog with some kick-ass methods. Beginners may have trouble implementing and understanding some of the techniques mentioned on this blog.
ShoeMoney- Reading ShoeMoney’s posts inspired me to try PPC marketing. The blog is great with some good quality content.
SeoProToolz - This is a recent blog that I found but there’s some great tips shared here.
Apart from reading information from the small list above, you should also check out these cool tools:
OnlyWire - Bookmark your sites automatically across 35 social bookmarking sites. This is a real time-saver and can help get your sites indexed within 48 hours.
CrazyEgg - Install the simple code on your site and it will show you a heat map of the most clicked places on your site. This is useful for finding optimal Adsense placements for your site.
HiT Tail - I only just began using this service. It allows you to find out which keywords your sites are ranking for in a clean and structured format and provides suggestions on which keywords you should be targetting. Worth checking out if you have an existing site with a lot of traffic.
