Coaches, Here Are 5 Ways To Get Your Coaching Site Indexed Quickly!

I’m often asked by fellow coaches, “How can I get my coaching site indexed quickly?”

Here are the top 5 ways I recommend.

1. Submit your site to the MSN.com (Microsoft) search engine. Go to www.msn.com and do a search for your site. If your site doesn’t come up you’ll receive a message saying, “We did not find any results for yoursite.com. At the bottom of the page you’ll see this, “If you cannot find a page that you know exists, send the address to us.” Simply enter your address and MSN will index you.” Check back in a week. If you’re still not indexed, resubmit.

2. If you don’t already have an account for My.Yahoo.com, create one. Then go to your My.Yahoo page and in the upper left hand corner, just below “Search,” you’ll see a “Add Content” link. Click it. On the new page you’ll see a large “Add Content” text box. To the right of that is a “Find” button. Right next to that is a “Add RSS by URL” link. Click that link and add your URL. If Yahoo can’t find your page, you may do better by submitting your RSS feed URL.

3. Create a blog and begin posting regularly. The two options for blogs are Blogger.com and WordPress.org. Each option has its own advantages and disadvantages. Check ‘em out and see which option is best for you. Register your blog with Technorati.com. Also, be sure and ping your blog each time you add a new post (this lets Technorati and other sites know that new content has been posted.)

4. Submit a “Google Sitemap” to Google. Note: This is different than a regular sitemap. The most important issue is making sure that your links are descriptive and written in complete sentences.

5. Make a post on a popular forum that allows the use of “forum signatures.” (Don’t just post anything, make a valuable contribution to the forum.) Since the search engine bots regularly visit forums, your post will get indexed with your URL.

So there you are, 5 ways to get your coaching site indexed quickly.

Of course, getting indexed is only dipping your big toe in the water. That gets you in the game (barely!), now you have to start building links back to your site to increase your rankings.

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E. Alvin Davis
“The Coach’s Online Marketing Coach” ™

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