How to Make Googlebot Love Your Website

Lets start with Googlebot... What is Googlebot? Googlebot is Google's web crawling bot (sometimes also called a "spider"). More info on Googlebot >

According to Google there are only 3 things that it asks for in having a google friendly site:

1. Give visitors the information they're looking for.
2. Make sure that other sites link to yours.
3. Make your site easily accessible.

The full information article can be found here: Steps to a Google-friendly site >

Here are 10 more things you can do to help your website get indexed by Google and get found in Googles organic search engine listings.

1. Create unique, accurate page titles.
2. Make use of the ‘description’ meta tag.
3. Offer quality content and services.
4. Use easy to understand URL’s that use words.
5. Create two sitemaps one for users and one for search engines.
6. Use suitable anchor text to convey what content it is linked to.
7. Ensure your images are web optimised for faster viewing.
8. Make your website easy to navigate.
9. Make your website mobile friendly.
10. Promote your website in the right way using backlinks, social media and good quality communities.

Have a new website? Or have you recently made changes to your website? You can let Google know... and it with index your website pages by submitting your website URL here: Submit URL to Google >