Google Webmaster Guidelines and Link Building Pt.2
Part 2 of 5 – Submit Your Site to Google.
Ok, we now have all the sites that are relevant to ours linking to us. Next, Google says “Submit it to Google at http://www.google.com/addurl.html“
I know a lot of SEO “experts” that say DON’T do this and I am not knocking these “experts”. But some of those experts say don’t do this because you may be drawing the wrong kind of attention to your site, but if your site is legit and relevant to your theme then how could you be attracting the “wrong kind attention”.
Google makes it pretty clear and states it right there in their Webmaster Guidelines to add your url,
so we will…
You may feel like you don’t need to do this because Google already recognizes your site and it’s already indexed, but Google has a form for you to fill out. What they do with this form beats me.
Just some crazy thoughts…
What if all Google does with this form is check to see if the links they have indexed pointing to you is relevant to your website’s theme? Or what if when submitting your site, you triggered the Googlebot to examine all the sites pointing to you? Or, what if when submitting your site, Google places you within one of their hidden algorithms and starts some unknown hidden site submission crawl cycle?
I know this last paragraph sounds like hocus-pocus, but isn’t a lot of SEO & Google’s algorithm “unknown” or “magical”? So, who knows?
One thing I know for sure is that Google says submit your site to them. And, it can’t hurt if you listen to them.
All Google asks for is a url and comment… oh, & proof that you’re human
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