Google as you all would know already is one of the search engine giants. And surely getting indexed in Google will do you good. To get indexed in Google, webmasters may submit their site directly to Google and verify their site trough Google webmasters tool.
The submission process is relatively simple. Sign in to your Google account (sign up here if you do not have a Google account). Access Google webmasters tool afterwards and you will be presented with the dashboard.
Insert your web site address in the text box provided and add site. This action will bring you to the overview page of the web site that you have just added. There is an option presented in the page to verify the ownership of your page. You can either verify your site first or add a site map to Google to make it faster for the search engine to access and index your site.
Verification process
This verification process is also straightforward, you can access it by clicking the link at the Overview page or by selecting tools -> manage site verification on the left sidebar menu.
Here, you can choose a verification method. Either by adding a file provided by Google to your website root folder or by adding a meta tag to your homepage. To add the file, choose "Upload an HTML file" from the textbox. Here, you will be presented with a name for your HTML file; create an HTML file with the name suggested. Save and upload it to your website main directory. (Sorry for the censored web address google generated key since it was my friend's site and he does not want the site name to be seen. I have tried to use my site, but apparently since it is already verified, I could not re-verify it)
Second option is by adding a META tag to your website homepage. Select "Add a meta tag" from the textbox. You will be presented with an HTML tag to be put inside your homepage <head> tag. Copy the META tag that looks like this <meta name="verify-v1" content="asfdas32413sadg@=as />.
Add this tag to your homepage by using a text editor provided by your web hosting or make a copy of your homepage, add the tag and upload it. The META tag will look like this during addition.
META tag example
After either of this steps done, click the verify button. If everything is done correctly, you will be presented with a page stating that the verification has been done successfully and the status will be set to pending.
Sitemap Submission
Sitemap helps the search engine to crawl your site effectively. Normally Google accepts the sitemap in XML format or .gz format (zipped XML sitemap). To add your website sitemap, access the sitemap portion of Google webmasters tool by going to sitemaps ' overview from the menu sidebar on your left.
Enter the location of your sitemap in the textbox provided and submit sitemap. If everything goes well, you will be presented with information that your sitemap is being crawled and the status is pending.
There you go, submit your site, sitemap and verify your site. In a week or more, your site will be indexed.
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! I've never thought the apparently simple ways Google operates. The matter is that even though it crawls your page multiple times, it still takes a ton of work on your part in order to get a site to become intriguing to the spiders. I guess this lends to my understanding of Google!
First of all, sorry for the late reply, been a bit busy somewhere else
And for your comment, you are right, that's where the on page optimization kicks in. And the submission portion only kicks off and make the crawling process a bit faster especially for newly created sites since you could submit your site map as well. But other than that, for gaining ranks and climbing the search result positions, optimize the site and get some links in. Cheers
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