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How do you go about getting your site indexed by Google (so it shows up when someone searches your keywords)? Make your page, then sit and wait for a week or two until the Google spiders stumble across it? That’s what I used to do too, but that is soooo old school.

First off, it’s important to know a few things about how search engines (Google especially) work. Search engines have programs called spiders or bots that are constantly combing the web and taking note of all the different content available. They go to a site, record the text on a site to get a feel for what it’s about, follow all the links, and index it for the search results. The search spiders visit “important” pages a lot more frequently than normal pages. “Important” pages are pages that are very popular, add new content often and have many links pointing to them.

These highly spidered pages are the keys to getting your site indexed quickly. Because spiders follow the links on the pages they visit, we can use these important pages to get the spiders to our site.

So here’s the pages I used…Go to Squidoo and write a quick article about your subject. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, but make sure it contains some links back to your site. If you don’t have a Squidoo accout, get one because it’s free.

Next go to clipmarks (again, free account). After you download and install the simple clipmarks software, go back to your Squidoo page you created. Clipmarks your Squidoo article and give it a title and description and everything, and you’re good to go.

That alone should get you indexed in Google in just a few hours. Right now, clipmarks is getting spidered like crazy and you can use that to your benefit.

You can go further and use social bookmarking sites, other article submission sites and we forums to quickly build up your number of pages indexed in Google.

I hope you found this helpful. Now you won’t have to wait around to get spidered in a week or two.