Submitting a blog to Google

Chubster · #1 (**permalink**) 21-03-2008, 18:04

Wow...

I only submitted my blog less than a hour ago and already google has indexed 4 of my url's....it took days for the same to happen with the main site.

So....get blogging everyone

sally · #2 (**permalink**) 21-03-2008, 18:06

Blogs certainly do have that effect if you can learn to use them properly. The more frequently you post the more frequently search engines crawl it too (I believe).

Chubster · #3 (**permalink**) 21-03-2008, 18:08

think the sitemap plugin helps alot too...have you got that one installed

sally · #4 (**permalink**) 23-03-2008, 01:34

Sorry I must have missed your post a while back Chub.

Yes I have 2 sitemap plugins for some reason but of course I uploaded them and they just sit there, no idea if I am meant to press something but the google tools thingy says the blog sitemap is verified??!!

Chubster · #5 (**permalink**) 23-03-2008, 01:41

Im pretty sure by default it works as soon as you install it...I also submitted the sitemap via google's webmasters tool.

RayB · #6 (**permalink**) 23-03-2008, 09:30

The good thing about wordpress blogs is that they have RSS Feeds and Ping built in - so the search engines know about the post immediately - and from there decide how fast to index your post based upon how important they deem your blog to be.

This all happens long before they look at your sitemap - it's one of the reasons why blogging is such a good thing to do