How To Get Listed In Google Within The Shortest Possible Time
Getting listed in Google or any other search engine is much simpler than you’d think. Getting a good position for a given keyword is hard - but that’s another story.
So let’s say you’re about to launch a new web site, and you want to get listed in Google as fast as possible. Just choose from the following solutions: (you can also combine them for increased effectiveness)
1. One of the fastest ways to get listed is having a link on a PR6 to PR9 web site pointing to you. Those sites get crawled almost every day by Google. The only problem is that it’s not that easy to put up a link on such a site - unless you own it of course. The solution: free classifieds. Craigslist.com is a PR8 site which lets you post small ads for free. For the best effect post an ad in the “small biz ads” section of the San Francisco bay area. That page is also PR6 and it gets crawled almost every day by Google. The URL is:
http://www.craigslist.org/biz/
A word of warning: Don’t SPAM that page!!! Right now it’s unmoderated and it can be used very effectively for our purpose. One ad will be more than enough for Google to find your page so don’t flood Craigslist with duplicate ads! If everyone started mass posting that section of Craigslist would simply become moderated - meaning no one could use it in the future.
2. Post a press release about your site to PRWeb.com. Press releases are different from normal ads or articles, so be sure to check out a few samples before writing yours. Generally, it takes 4 to 5 days till your press release is approved and goes live on PRWeb.com. You’ll need to register a free account but you can also pay to have your press release featured (IMHO, it’s not worth paying if you just want to get crawled by Google so you can choose the free option) Note: PRWeb.com doesn’t post press releases with any mature or adult related content. Once your press release goes live, Google will pick up your site very soon.
3. If you have a high PR web site, you can simply put a link to your new site for a few days / weeks till Google picks it up. In my experience, a PR4 web site (and PR4 is not hard to reach for a site) gets crawled once or twice a month, and the frequency of Google’s visits increases as your PR goes higher. (as I mentioned, PR7-PR8 sites get crawled almost every day)
4. You can also buy a high PR link from www.text-link-ads.com, www.textlinkbrokers.com or www.linkadage.com. Be careful with these services: some sites advertised on them are pure scam, so be sure to check them out thoroughly before paying for a link. It’s more than enough to have the link up for one month, then you can cancel it.
5. Do content-based advertising with Google Adwords. Content based ads are featured on various web pages, and if you advertise for a month or so, Google will pick up your link from their own ads on one of those pages. This solution works best if you would use Google Adwords to advertise your site anyway, so you can combine the two steps and get crawled in the process.
6. Get your site into DMOZ.org or the Yahoo directory. This will get you listed within a few days. DMOZ.org is a free service and it can take months till you get listed (and of course there is no guarantee that you’ll DO get listed). Yahoo charges you $299 ($600 for adult web sites) per year for a listing, but they process your request within a few business days. They have strict guidelines, so be sure that your site meets them before submitting your URL and paying hundreds of dollars.
7. Post some of your articles to related forums. Be sure that the forum is open to the public and it gets crawled by Google occasionally. Don’t spam the forums and always stay on-topic. Simply mention that you’ve found a useful article you’re reposting with permission, and that the article is courtesy of [yourlinkhere]. Usually, this won’t bother most of the moderators but always double-check their rules if you don’t want a bunch of crazy webmasters chasing you with their keyboards 
Note: Google’s link submission form (http://www.google.com/addurl/) isn’t worth using. It won’t speed up the process and without any links to pointing to your site from other sites, you aren’t likely to get listed. (If you read that page carefully, even Google itself doesn’t guarantee anything)
Important! Once you’ve done any of the steps above and you have a link pointing to your site, be patient. Even if Google crawls your page today, it may take up to a week till the changes appear in their search results.
Tip: For the first time, Google will crawl only a few of your pages (if not only your main page). If you want to have your site deep-crawled, you can use Google Sitemaps.
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