In this edition of OK to Make Money Online, let’s concentrate on getting your site indexed by Google. Now, I cannot guarantee you will be indexed, that is solely up to Google, but if you follow the rules, you most likely will be indexed.

Let’s take a look at what rules we have learned so far:

1) First, you have registered and set up a proper Blogger or a domain using Wordpress or Joomla as a blog.

2) The title of your blog contains your keyword(s).

3) You have an “About” page that includes your long tail keyword and a back link to your site.

4) You have copy and revised Google’s Privacy Page example or copied my Privacy Page and revised it.

5) Make sure your sitemap is installed and has the right links to your site and Google logged no errors.

6) Two or more original articles are posted on your site using your keywords.

7) You have 10 tags for each article you have created.

When using WordPress, you have multiple categories.

9) You have registered with Technorati and claimed your site.

Make sure you have completed the above tasks. This is important. By being indexed we are telling the world through Google where your new blog is located. Without the index, no one will ever know you have a blog.

Remember that Adsense account we just created in “Make Money – Adsense”? Log in to that account and click on the “Resources” tab. On this page, under References, find the “Webmaster guidelines” and click it. On the next page, about half way down the middle column will be “When your site is ready” and under the title you will see a hyperlink to addurl.html. Click on this link.

On the page titled “Add your URL to Google,” enter your blog’s URL, making sure to add a comment and your keyword. Next, enter the squiggly letters and press the “Add URL” button. Don’t worry, if you get the squiggly letters wrong just re-enter the text when the screen is redisplayed.

After entering the squiggly letters correctly, you should see something like “Thank you, Your site URL has been successfully added to our list of URLs to crawl. Please note that 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”

Next time on OK to Make Money online we will look at SEO for your blog.

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