Part 7 of 10 of the SEOExciter Series, which you can watch all of them right now at  -> SEO and Get Ranked High in the Search Engines.

So far, we have focused a lot on the things that you can directly do to your website to get it indexed in Google (or the other search engines for that matter!).  Now we need to focus on the other side of SEO, which we call Off-Page SEO.

Remember the old proverb:

“If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it really make a sound?”

This is similar to what we are talking about now.  If we built the greatest and most SEO optimized website on the internet and Google does not find it, will we get ranked?

The answer is no.

So we have two tasks as website developers:

1)  We first need to tell Google (and the other search engines) that we exist!

2)  We need to convince these search engines that we are both important and relevant.  (we are going to talk about this more in the next three parts!)

So how do we tell Google that we exist?  (The proper term for this is “getting indexed” in the search engine.)

Now I know many of you consider the idea of “submitting to search engines”, but personally, I think that is a waste of money.  These “search engine submissions” are more suggestions rather than indexes.  Yeah, I am sure they tell the search engines you exist, but it really gives you no credibility or popularity…and getting indexed really does not require this.

All you need to do is get a website that is already being indexed by a search engine to link back to your website.  We are going to talk more about getting backlinks (these are links from external websites pointing back to your website) in Part 9 of the SEO Exciter series, but just a quick preview…

• Write articles and Submit to Article Directories
• Submit to Directories (this is different than Search Engines!)
• Ping your Website or Page (Try Google’s Ping Service)
• Create a Social Profile (We’ll talk about this in Part 10)
• Create Forum Posts or Blog Comments

The point here is to get Google to find you naturally.  It will give you credibility, authority and relevance.

And just like we started this conversion…

“Just because Google indexes you, doesn’t mean you will rank for anything!”

THAT is what we talk about in the final three parts of the SEO Exciter Series!

cheers…matt

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