How to invite Googlebot to your website or blog

If you are looking to be the first out there to break a story or new product online, there is a fatastic tip here to get Googlebot to hit your site almost instantly.

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So you want to know more….

The principal to do this is so easy but will help generate more traffic than you currently get as your article or product/service will be there before anyone elses. I guess you now want me to get to the nitty gritty…..

It’s simple: join FriendFeed, for example by twittering or bookmarking it.

Once the URI hits your FriendFeed account, FriendFeed shares it with Googlebot, and both of them request it before the tweet appears on your timeline:

Date/Time Request URI IP User agent
2009–09–19 20:01:19 Your URI 38.99.68.206 / 38.99.68.206 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; FriendFeedBot/0.1; +Http://friendfeed.com/about/bot)
2009-09-19 20:01:19 Your robots.txt 66.249.71.141 / crawl-66-249-71-141.googlebot.com Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
2009-09-19 20:01:19 Your URI 66.249.71.141 / crawl-66-249-71-141.googlebot.com Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)

It really is this simple.there are other methods of enticing Googlebot to your site but this is just a nice automated process that will assist in getting your pages hit quicker thus helping with indexation.

What do you do?

I would love to hear what you do to get google to index your pages. Leave feeback and I will be happy to post all comments to assist anyone who has an interest in Googlebot.

Tags: Googlebot

2 Responses to “How to invite Googlebot to your website or blog”

  1. Thanks for sharing this article, its seems to work pretty good..

  2. Paw hellegaard on September 21st, 2009 at 3:00 pm
  3. What tricks do you use Paw?

  4. Lee Johnson on September 24th, 2009 at 7:01 pm

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