In this edition to OK to Make Money Online, getting your site or blog indexed in the Google search engine is our main task. No one can guarantee that Google will index your site but if we following the practices used online we will have a good chance to getting you indexed.

So, look at the best practices outlined so far:

1) A proper Blogger account or domain name has been set up and Blogger, WordPress or Joomla is your blog software.

2) Make sure your long tail keywords are in your title and first paragraphs.

3) You have made a proper About Page that includes your keyword(s).

4) Using Google’s Privacy Page example, you have modified it and posted the page.

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

6) You have written at least two or more original articles and posted them on you site.

7) You have 10 tags for each article you have created.
When using WordPress, you have multiple categories.

9) You have installed your Technorati link and claimed your site.

Getting indexed in the Google search engine is our next task. If you are not indexed, it will be very difficult for someone to find you using the Google search engine. So how are you indexed? After you have polished up your Blog and have registered with Adsense it’s time to get you indexed.

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.

Google will display a confirmation message to notify you that you did everything correctly. Now be patient and wait for the GoogleBot to crawl your new site. Meanwhile, get started writing and posting your next article.

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

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