May 06

Additional Strategies to Get TKG.com Indexed by Google

Tag: Google — Jen @ 5:17 pm

Corey & I have been brainstorming this afternoon about how to get Google to index the new domain.
What we know so far…

1. Via AW Stats, we know that Googlebot has been to www.tkg.com numerous times over the last few days
2. Via Google Webmaster Tools, we know that the robots.txt was downloaded at 10am this morning (day 6)
3. Google rankings are dropping off
4. Via GMT, we know that the sitemap was downloaded late yesterday afternoon

We’re stepping up our strategy and getting more aggressive, so we’re going to add tkg.com links to sites that we know are crawled often (DMOZ, Craigslist, eBay, etc)

  • DMOZ is out of the question - we’ve tried updating our listing twice over the last 9 months with no reaction/response/update
  • Craigslist - they have ‘nofollow’ links, but we don’t care about passing popularity at this point, just getting Google to the site; we posted some of our SEO job postings
  • eBay - I wasn’t a fan of this idea at first because this doesn’t really apply to our industry (ie: we’re not ecommerce); I had a chat with our SEO team and we decided to go for it! So you can now purchase your very own TKG polo shirt on eBay

One Response to “Additional Strategies to Get TKG.com Indexed by Google”

  1. Domains Banned by Google | Blacklisted Domains | Websites Banned by Google says:
    May 14th, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    [...] efforts for increasing TKG.com traffic (not to be confused with link popularity) to help Google crawl the site 6 days after [...]

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