Tips To Get Joomla Site Indexed Faster By Google And Other Search Engines

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After designing and developing a brand new Joomla website successfully, the next thing you desire is to get it indexed as soon as possible by Google and other search engines. The main concern then is how to get maximum traffic to your brand new website from the search engines. For this, indexation is very essential to get website ranked well in the search engines.

The web crawlers continuously crawl on the web to find new and updated web pages. It’s important to ensure that search engines are picking up your web pages. For this, your pages should be reachable to spiders or crawlers of search engines. In addition to keyword optimization and adding content to your Joomla website, there are other important factors too on which spiders depend to find your site speedily.

1] Quality Back Links:

Spiders follow links. Quality back links pointing your website can help spiders to find you easily. Back links can be created by blogs on free blogging sites or by using social bookmarking sites like Blogger.com, WordPress.com, LiveJournal.com, Digg, Reddit and many others.

2] Noticeable Web Template:

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... the time of Joomla Web Development, it is necessary to select the web template which is search engine friendly. It makes a big difference on getting the website indexed.

The template used for Joomla website should –
• Be created without tables, DIVs or CSS
• Contain table-less template overriding content layouts
• Return valid HTML and CSS

Joomla templates purchased from commercial template providers like RocketTheme, YooTheme and others are mostly search engine friendly which will make effective impact on getting the site indexed. Because of this, Joomla Web Developers should select web template wisely at the time of designing phase of the website.

3] Sitemap Submission:

With Google Webmaster – A service provided by Google for webmasters to manage website or blogs, you can easily submit your XML sitemap to Google. By submitting XML sitemap your website will get indexed faster comparatively. By this Google tool, you can also check your indexation; submit test robots.txt and much more. In couple of hours Google will find out your sitemap after submission.

The robots.txt file should always be used while specifying the location of the sitemap. Along with above listed techniques, there are also some other techniques that can bring your website on the top faster. Such as;
- Create Wikipedia entry for your Joomla website
- Submit pages to well indexed directories
- Perform Social Networking and Social Bookmarking activities
- Submit domain URL to all search engines via “Submit URL Pages”
- Update website regularly
- Check regularly the indexed pages

Even if you have built a search engine friendly Joomla website, it is never enough for good results. It is imperative to select an SEO expert and let them perform all the necessary activities for search engine optimization. Softweb Solutions having a team of talented developers provides complete Joomla Web Development Services. For more information on this, contact us at info@softwebsolutions.com.