turner10 said:
I'm sure there is a thread for this somewhere here but i could not find one. So, I have a bunch of newly reged names and was wondering the best approach to getting them indexed. I have seen the company's that charge money and guarantee your sites will be indexed in within 48 hrs or something like that. Or is the best way to just be patient? Or are there any other methods? I know i could submit them individualy to Google, Yahoo, MSN, ect. but am looking for an easier way i guess.
Any company that takes your money and gives you any kind of a guarantee with regards to search engines is a ripoff. That's a bold statement, but I'll stand behind it. Even the best SEO companies will at most promise you an *improvement* in rank and/or indexing, but a guarantee? Can't happen. That's almost invariably a sign that the company is using some grey or black hat method that will likely get you kicked out or penalized at some point down the road.
The fastest and best way for an url to get indexed is to have at least one link to it on an url that is already indexed. Google and Yahoo will pick that up faster than any manual submission. (MSN tends to run slower)
Now, that said, depending on what you're doing with your domain, that might not be feasible. Most parking companies don't like you to put links to your domain on other pages in order to get indexed. But with most parking companies, you will get indexed eventually anyway - probably within a month.
If you are not parking your domains, then you can do whatever you want. If you have a site out there somewhere, just put a page of links up. Despite all the recent talk about Google penalizing links, the bottom line is - they're FINE with links that seem to be "natural" and they don't even have any problem with paid links as long as they are just for purposes of gaining traffic or being indexed - where they get involved is when they think you're trying to game pagerank with linking. So once you get your domains indexed, take down the link page, or add rel=nofollow to each link tag.
You can manually add them to Google or Yahoo or MSN as a backup. But the links is a faster an better way to do it.
But please don't spend any money on any company. I have cleaned up after more of these for my clients than I can count. Simply put, when it comes to search engines, there are NO guarantees, there are NO special relationships, and anyone who claims there are is a bald faced liar. Period.