Here is a little tip I picked up while doing some research into web site development and promotion. It is a simple but very effective way to get a web page listed in Google within just a few hours or less.

Search engine submission programs are about as obsolete as the keystroke typewriter. Traditional submission programs are no longer really necessary and do not guarantee inclusion into Google. These days most web pages are found and indexed automatically, when one of Googles greedy little spiders crawl the web looking for fresh new content to devour. Once the Google spider crawls your web site, instantly it is listed into Google according to the rank it gives you and the way in which your pages have been keyword optimized.

The way you can call one of the little information starved Google spiders to come to dinner is to do a search using the Google Toolbar. This will require that you first download and install the Google toolbar. To download the Google Toolbar go to http://toolbar.google.com/. (To learn all more about the various functions of the Google Toolbar go to: http://toolbar.google.com/help.html

How It Works:

After you've downloaded and installed the Google Toolbar, notice the green PageRank strip just above the Google logo. Now rest your mouse cursor on top of the PageRank strip and a text box will appear showing the PageRank number of the site you are on. It shows a PR of between 0 and 10. Very few sites if any have a PageRank of 10. What you eventually want is a 4/10 or above.

To get your web pages quickly indexed or listed into Google and Yahoo, enter the index page URL of your site into the Google Search box. Next, click the Search Web button next to it, and Google will begin searching for your URL.

This action will instantly call the Google Spiders to come search your web pages and immediately your site will get listed into Google... that's it!

YOU ARE NOW INDEXED IN GOOGLE!

You will know when the #1 page (the index page) to your site has been indexed when you look at the Google Toolbar Page Rank indicator. There you will find the bar color is "White". This indicates Google has you indexed. This does not mean you can instantly do a search in Google for your site and see it listed, though. It means your web site has been indexed and is waiting in the queue to appear.

NOTE #1: For reasons unknown to anyone, sometimes your page may not get index for several hours, several days or weeks. Some index within one or two hours. However, you must be patient if your pages do not show they've been indexed.

NOTE #2: At the start, you will not have a Page Rank worth mentioning. That will come from getting inbound links from other sites, among other things. That is a topic for discussion in another article.

This little trick works like a charm. Within about twenty-four hours of my setting up a new site, I was able to see in my statistics that the Google crawler had been there several times. Give it a shot!