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Add Your Blog to Google Directly

February 17, 2011 — 83 Comments

[This post is part of the Ultimate Guide to Launching a WordPress-Powered Blog series.]

Doh! I didn't know...!

***UPDATE – Looks like Google has eliminated this feature. Nice! One less thing to do, right?**

It never fails to surprise me how some of the most basic strategies to increase one’s blog presence and traffic on the web are never actually employed!

I’ve done a poll in a live audience before and have asked them this question:

How many of you have submitted your blogs to Google directly?

Crazy how perhaps 1 out of 10 actually raised their hand! Of course, the moment I asked that question I saw some anxious faces who desperately felt like they were missing out and who desperately wanted to know how to do it.

“Easy!” I said. All you have to do is go here:

Head over to Google’s URL Site and just put in your information. Don’t forget the “http://”!

That’s it! Easy, right? I’ve seen some sites who have struggled to get indexed find this as a great starter place and seen some results. Other sites may not be impacted at all, but it’s worth doing anyway.

Do it for your blog(s) and then tell someone else!

Ok, ‘fess up: How many of you haven’t done this yet?

Don’t Forget Yahoo! and Bing!

Of course you’ll want to do the same thing for Yahoo! and Bing.

[This post is part of the Ultimate Guide to Launching a WordPress-Powered Blog series.]

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83 responses to Add Your Blog to Google Directly

  1. Michael February 17, 2011 at 9:41 AM

    Umm…it’s done now.

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  2. Kevin February 17, 2011 at 10:05 AM

    This never even crossed my mind. Until 45 seconds ago.

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  3. ThatGuyKC February 17, 2011 at 9:16 AM

    URL added.

    The Transformer said it all in the caption. Totally didn’t know about this. Thank you!

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  4. Tim Graves February 17, 2011 at 9:16 AM

    I hadn’t done this. I didn’t know you could, just thought Google was on the ball like that… apparently I underestimated my own responsibilities as a blogger <.<

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  5. supersimbo February 17, 2011 at 9:19 AM

    ooops!

    done now!

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  6. John February 17, 2011 at 9:36 AM

    I finally did last week, ( bashfull grin )

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  7. kylegoen February 17, 2011 at 9:38 AM

    Thanks for the info.

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  8. Ben February 17, 2011 at 9:48 AM

    Psht, I had this done like 2-3 minutes ago.

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  9. Roseli A. Bakar February 17, 2011 at 10:01 AM

    I use the Google submit tool whenever I create a new blog :)

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  10. Lance M. February 17, 2011 at 11:04 AM

    Now I’m part of the cool crowd.

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  11. Drew C David February 17, 2011 at 10:06 AM

    *hangs head in shame* I’ll be right back. I need to go…go check something that doesn’t have anything to do with adding my blog to Google.

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  12. Jon Manna February 17, 2011 at 10:12 AM

    where would we be without you, tentblogger?!

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  13. Scott Reyes February 17, 2011 at 11:46 AM

    Thanks. I am so new to all of this. I had no idea that this was possible.

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  14. Dustin February 17, 2011 at 10:59 AM

    Um, yeah…. now I am in the game.

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  15. Rachel February 17, 2011 at 11:23 AM

    So simple, yet I never thought of it. Great tip!

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  16. Tony February 17, 2011 at 11:32 AM

    Is it necessary to do this if you’ve already gone through all the google webmaster tools?
    I did just in case, but it seems a bit redundant to me.

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  17. Toby February 17, 2011 at 12:32 PM

    Guilty! But it’s only been 4 years, right?
    Thanks…..again!

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  18. Andy Allen February 17, 2011 at 11:53 AM

    Nope…I hadn’t done it. I’ve had my website for 12-13 years so it never crossed my mind.

    Thanks -

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  19. Melissa February 17, 2011 at 11:56 AM

    Perfect timing! I just got my blog live on Sunday and was just yesterday wondering what to do about this. I just registered mine.

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  20. Lori February 17, 2011 at 12:07 PM

    Didn’t know. Thank you.

    (I echo Jon Manna – “where would we be without you, tentblogger?!”)

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  21. Steven Cribbs February 17, 2011 at 12:31 PM

    Another thing I did not know… Thanks John!

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  22. Peter P February 17, 2011 at 1:32 PM

    I honestly can’t remember…

    I usually do it for all my sites and all my clients, but I don’t know if I did it for my current blog!

    I’m in the index anyway so I guess it doesn’t matter now…

    Question: If you’re using Google webmaster tools, does that negate any need for doing this?

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  23. KellySinging February 17, 2011 at 1:58 PM

    Done. Thanks! And this is why I read your blog. ;)

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  24. Jeff Goins February 17, 2011 at 4:38 PM

    Hadn’t done it, either. Thanks for the tip.

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  25. katdish February 17, 2011 at 5:29 PM

    You’re like the Yoda of blogging.

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  26. Kyle King February 17, 2011 at 5:38 PM

    Do Bing or Yahoo have anything like this?

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  27. Josh Weidmann February 17, 2011 at 7:04 PM

    Yeah, I hadn’t done that either. Thank you for letting me know. So helpful!

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  28. Beauty Is Diverse February 17, 2011 at 6:20 PM

    I’ve added mine.

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  29. Becky February 17, 2011 at 8:18 PM

    Thanks for sharing how to add our site to google.

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  30. Cris Ferreira February 17, 2011 at 8:43 PM

    John, I added my site to Google not long ago, but it never occurred to me to do the same on Bing and Yahoo!
    I’ve just seen your posts about that, and I’ve just did it.
    Thanks for making my life easier again!

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  31. Ben Miller February 17, 2011 at 8:54 PM

    As I understand it, though, if Google is already indexing your blog, this is completely unnecessary, correct?

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    • John Saddington February 17, 2011 at 8:57 PM

      yes. it is safe to say that, but even though they may be indexed i always do it anyways. it takes 5 seconds and you don’t lose anything.

      :)

      i try to stay overly-cautious of these search engines!

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  32. Graham February 17, 2011 at 10:44 PM

    I have not done this before. Seems so simple! I own http://grahambrenna.com and http://gbrenna.com and they both have come up in a Google search before I did this. So I’m guessing I’ve already been added to Google but it never hurts to be sure.

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  33. Jo Rae Johnson February 18, 2011 at 4:36 PM

    Thank you so much for your posts. They have been so helpful. I noticed that Yahoo offers the option of adding your site feed as well. I use Feedburner is the site feed the “original feed” address or the “feed address” listed? Thanks again, Jo Rae

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  34. Dave Anthold February 20, 2011 at 1:39 AM

    I just added my URL.

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  35. Larry Yarborough February 21, 2011 at 1:22 PM

    Done deal, Lucille. Thanks for the advice! (I’m learning a lot from you)
    LY

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  36. Rob Rash March 28, 2011 at 5:08 PM

    Done! John thanks for all your help man!

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  37. Ryan George April 21, 2011 at 3:15 PM

    Thanks for this advice! I did this today.

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  38. Marcus Williamson August 1, 2011 at 9:37 PM

    so…um…yeah…

    thanks dude :)

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  39. Charlotte Slater February 18, 2012 at 6:30 PM

    Just tried this by clicking on the link and by manually typing the URL shown in the screenshot. I keep getting an error message “The page you are trying to reach does not exist (404).” Any ideas? Thanks.

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  40. Matt Fraser March 22, 2012 at 12:05 AM

    That is mind boggling that they killed the feature. Why do you think they did that?

    Do you have any suggestions for alternate ways to do this?

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  41. Apkhit February 15, 2013 at 6:55 PM

    thanxxxxx ……….

    Reply

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