How I got Google to index me seconds after a new post

Well, it was easy. I threatened Google that I would actually surpass Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo! and I offered $87 bn. Exactly 27 minutes later, they e-mailed my secretariat, and offered me a private bot that would index my personal blog after 1/1000 th of a second after publishing. Pretty nifty ha?

Now, for those of you who actually thought of believing that, you might want to consider backing up one of those “Ron Paul will win by a landslide” polls. No offense! I like Ronnie. But just that, he can’t be something that he isn’t.

Anyway, coming back to the topic…

BEE, which means, Before Everything Else, if you don’t know what ‘Google Webmaster Tools’ is, the I suppose you check this post out, titled, Google Webmasters Tools - making life easier for bloggers. Simply because of the fact that today, we’re going to play a bit around Google and Wordpress integration.

Oh yes! The magical word!! “Integration”. How do we integrate something into wordpress, class? Plugins of course. Now this is not a super secret, but accept it. It had been just that for sometime. As the previously linked post might tell you, Google indexes your site very efficiently when given a sitemap in an XML format. Which is exactly what makes me gets indexed by Google in seconds.

Here is one of the plugins that I myself and a lot of bloggers make the best use of. It’s called ‘Sitemap Generator’. After your blog updates, you can automatically ping it to make your XML sitemap update and in turn, ping Google about it. If you’re really lucky, and the Google spider is nearby your blog, hunting for prey, It’s bound to be indexed within seconds.

The really cool things is you can easily specify the crawl cycles for different portions of your blogs. For an instance, you don’t want to index the archives daily yeah? It get changed once per month only. But your home page? Maybe lesser frequency. And once your blog gets updated, your sitemap gets updated and as I said earlier, gets pinged at Google.

The other thing I really like about Sitemap Generator 2.7 is that it automatically prioritizes your blog posts according to the comments count. For an example, it’ll index a post that has 10 comments more regularly than a post with 5. Which means, your blog-o-sphere popularity is applied to web-o-sphere too. And the other nifty thing is it actually include debug comments in your XML file, so you can easily follow it around even if you choose not to use the plugin in the future. Pretty cool, ha?

I know, this would have been great if I published some real-time stats to back this theory up too. I was hoping to do that when I broke the Olsen story, but then again, it didn’t create so much buzz no way, even if I was the second person in the entire blog-o-sphere to write about it. Turns out, people don’t give so much of a concern about Olsen twins after they turned 21:)

Please comment on what the whole idea was like to you. Would love to have your feedback.