In the last lesson we covered how to create quality content that has the proper keyword density for your blog. By now you should have several blog posts completed and submitted. Now we cover how to get your profitable niche website found indexed.

Now let’s check and see if Google has found your site yet. Do not panic if it hasn’t and do not really expect your pages to be showing up on page one of Google yet. It is a process and sometimes it takes a few days for Google to find you.

Here is how you can check to see if Google has crawled your site yet. Go to the Google search engine and in the search firld type in site:yourdomain.com or site:yourdomain.blogspot.com whichever you have chosen to use for your blog. If you are indexed you will see the pages that Google has visited in the list. If nothing is showing yet give it a bit of time. Check each day.

I have had some pages that show up within minutes and other pages that takes several days.

IMPORTANT NOTE: There is one thing I can almost guarantee will happen so I do not want you to panic when it does. You will type in your site one day and 5 of your pages will show up. Then the next time you type it in they are all gone. Nothing at all showing. That is normal! Just continue posting on a daily basis and usually the next day you will be back indexed again.

The reason this happens is because the search engine wants to be sure you are not a flash in the pan. One of those sites that posts today and gone tomorrow. They will not serve old news to their customers. They will wait and see if you are still relevant a day or so later.

One way to show them you are here to stay is to do a bit of backlinking and promoting of your site. I am going to show you how to do this.

Remember when I told you to reserve one of your articles? There are some very good article sites that will allow you to post that article and give you a backlink to your site but ONLY if it is original content. The one that seems to hold the most weight with search engines is ezinearticles.com.

The reason this site carries so much clout with the search engines is because every single article that is submitted for inclusion on the site is read and approved by a human. The articles all must meet ezinearticle’s standards. This is the way they can ensure that they are delivering quality articles and not spam. Do not include any links within the article itself. They allow you an author’s resource box where you can put your bio and your link to your website. Never, ever place any affiliate links in any articles or it will be automatically rejected and may get you banned.

Play by their rules and you will be rewarded. Their articles are also a source for other websites looking for quality content. The terms of use for the articles is that they are free to be used anywhere so long as the original author is given full credit. This is a good thing for you.

Think about it. Your one article could potentially show up on hundreds of websites all from your own niche and you will have backlinks from each one. This will really boost you up the page ranks quickly. So make the articles you submit there top notch stuff.

Another place I have had fairly good luck with is hubpages.com. This site is kind of fun. You can create some great articles, add video, images, links, etc. You also have the option to monetize the articles although you will not likely get rich from them they may bring you in a few more dollars each month if you use Adsense, Amazon or eBay affiliate programs.

Again, they prefer and reward original content although not as strictly. You will get a lower hub score initially if your article is not original but can climb the ranks if it is good quality. Just do not use anyone else’s works. That is seriously frowned upon. If you use one of your blog posts be sure it is your own and not one you have mined from another source.

You can likely find many article submission sites. I know of a few. buzzle.com is another one similar to ezinearticles that does have human approval as well. It usually does well in search engines too. For the first while I would suggest you write two articles per day. Submit one to your blog and one to an article publishing site. If you do this it will be very quick for you to get your site indexed and really start climbing the position in Google within your chosen niche for your main keyword phrase. Check daily to see if you can find your site in the search results for the pages you know are indexed already. There is no point in checking pages that aren’t indexed yet as they will never appear in results.

Another way for you to get quality back links is through leaving comments on other people’s blogs and doing forum posts with your url linked in your signature. Now listen to me carefully here…DO NOT spam other people’s blogs or forums. If you leave a comment make it relevant to the post. Do not make your comment self promotional. Seem like you are genuinely interested in what the blogger was writing about. They will reward you with approving your comment and giving you a backlink. Spam or be competitive with them and they will disapprove your comment so you have just wasted your time and theirs. You have too much to do to waste time.

In forums, follow the rules. Many forums do not allow links in your signature until you have had 10 posts approved. So make your posts or replies to other’s posts polite, relevant and non-promotional. Add value to their site and they will reward you with back links. Nothing is more hated in any blog or forum than a spammer. Do not do yourself the disservice of ruining your reputation. Remember that the members of that blog or forum are interested in your particular niche and if you are helpful they will check you out.

There are various tools and software that can help speed up this process for you. Your Market Samurai is a huge time saver in this aspect of promotion. The Promotion Module will save you from having to surf for hours to find relevant blogs to leave your comments on. They will also be able to tell you whether the site has a “no follow” setting. You don’t want to spend time leaving comments on blogs that have no follow tags. The search engines will not be able to follow to your site so it will not count as a back link. It may drive a small amount of traffic your way if that particular blog is a very active one, but for now you really need to focus on quality back links.

Here is a very good Market Samurai training video that will walk you through using the Promotion Module and building your back links.

Another way to grab links on other sites is by using pingbacks. This is a relatively new technology but is super easy and way cool. If a blog is set to allow pingbacks, each time you place a link to that blog within your blog post it will appear in their comments as a link to the post you have created. But how do you know if a blog allows it? Well that is another engenious feature of Market Samurai.

In their promotion section they analyze other blogs to not only let you know if they have no follow tags but they also let you know if they allow pingbacks and you can very easily do a quick post up within the software itself that will create a post that looks a bit like an RSS feed with the link to thier blog post and a brief excerpt of the article. You can put them all together in a list and put it into your blog. I usually say something like, “Here are some great articles I found about (your keyword phrase) that I would like to share with you.” Then I paste the code that Market Samurai has created with the links and summaries. At the end, I finish it off with…”I hope you have found these articles about (your keyword phrase) as interesting as I have. Please leave me your comments to let me know what you think.

Submit your post and you now have a new series of very relevant back links that Google will love.

Make building back links a part of your daily routine. It is critical to gaining authority for your site. With the right tools it takes less than 10 minutes a day but can make all the world of difference to your success.

Today’s actions: Check to see if your pages are indexed, post your article to an article publishing site and leave at least 2 comments on related blogs (more if you are using Market Samurai)

In the next lesson we will begin building a Web 2.0 presence for your niche market website.

Lesson 11