GOOGLE PAGE RANK : tip 1

As you are reading this i can safely assume that you have
designed a site or a blog and you want it to appear within
first few results for any related search term.
But how?
As there are billions of other sites (OK a little overboard here)
vying for top 10 positions in the page you get after
hitting "search".

To achieve top position you should consider following points:

• Does your site/blog offer anything interesting?
• Do you know anything about "SEO"? no no dont search you will learn it eventually.
• and most important have you submitted your blog/site to google's index

In this article i will explain about the third point because thats the very first and simple
step .
As google has got a lot of other sites to index the googlebots will never voluntarily
come to your site unless you ask them to do so. Thats why you have to submit your
site to google.

How to :
submitting a site to google is a simple process that can be easily completed in about
15 minutes.

• Before starting out you will need a google account.If you dont have any then you should open one at gmail . If you have any google account like orkut then you can use same username and password.
• Now login to your google account. Select "webmaster tools"
• At dashboard you will be asked to submit your site.(add option)
• After hitting ADD you will be asked to verify your site
  
• There are two ways in which you can verify that you are the real owner of the site.

1. Add a meta tag
2. upload an HTML file.

• Now if you own this site with url like www.example.com then you should choose the second option as that will be easier.
  
• After uploading the specified HTML file copy the address of that file(www.example.com/verify.html) and use it to verify your ownership.
• But if you are submitting a blog like www.blog.host.com then you should prefer adding meta tag. All you have to do is copy the tag given and paste it below title tag in your template HTML.(for blogger template>edit HTML)
• Then hit verify and you are done.
• It will take some time for google to index your pages meanwhile you should keep adding more and more quality content to your site/blog.
• As initially crawler visits "not too often" it is better to keep updating your site.
• If crawler finds your page unchanged from its previous visit then it increase the dealy between two visits assuming it wont change again.
• With more and fresh content you will definitely increase crawler visits and so you page rank.