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New websites are launched ever day with newbies on yahoo answers asking why when they do a search for their website they don’t show up at all. The typcial response that they get is, add your website to google’s index over here http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl. But this is not the best solution as you can see google clearly states.

We add and update new sites to our index each time we crawl the web, and we invite you to submit your URL here. We do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear.

This is actually a newbies best bet, but if you already have a blog or a website and you have the ability to add a link from there to the new site chances are you will get indexed faster. But in most cases newbies don’t have other websites which they can use to add a link to the new site.

There was a period of time that I used to use digital point forums to get my new sites indexed. Being that I was very active and had a lot of fresh posts I would add the links in my signature and within a matter of days my new site would be indexed in google. You have to make sure that the link does not have a rel=”nofollow” tag on it (rel=”nofollow” tells a search engine not to follow the link - more about this some other time.). This again is a luxury that I had being that I had an active account at a forum which allowed me to have links in my signature.

With all of the above options put aside there are still other options available to everyone which will help you get your site get indexed faster. Submit your website to digg.com google bots are practically there all day everyday indexed all the new pages and new links that they find. When their crawlers are there they look at all the new links and crawl them and in turn your new website is now put into  googles index.

What do you do in order to get your sites indexed in google?

The baseball season has just begun, being that I am a big fan of the New York Yankees, I did a quick search today for yankees in google. Here is what I got.

I am pretty sure that google has been showing sports scores in the search results. But today I noticed two new things that I have not seen in the past.

1. Google is displaying in box score during the game, which means that they are fetching the data from mlb.com, probably via API, although I am not sure.
2. Google added a link “add to iGoogle”, right next to the box score, which takes you to a sports scores gadget.

This comes to no surprise especially after this weekend when we learned that google has been talking to twitter about crawling their site better so that google can display live results from twitter. Google is into freshness and keeping their index as up to date as possible with the latest information. In addition, by keeping the score and the box score in the SERP’s, this allaws the searcher to remain on google’s site a bit longer and maybe click on an ad before leaving to a different website.

Have you seen an “add to iGoogle” link before in the google SERP’s? Is google displaying it anywhere else?