What Factors Help in Indexing a Link?

[Meezoo]

Aside from backlinks, what are the factors that play into getting a link indexed by Google?

Note: we are talking about URLs of sites that you do not own. So GSC is not an option here.

 

[tiiberius]

It needs to be:

• discoverable (achieved easily by with existing backlinks, ideally with traffic)
• crawlable (bots must be allowed and source must be worthy of crawling)
• indexable (no restrictions either from user or search engine)
• worthy of indexing (quality piece of content generally speaking)

 

[Meezoo]

It needs to be:

• discoverable (achieved easily by with existing backlinks, ideally with traffic)
• crawlable (bots must be allowed and source must be worthy of crawling)
• indexable (no restrictions either from user or search engine)
• worthy of indexing (quality piece of content generally speaking)

What else?
URLs like Pinterest Pins, what helps in getting them indexed?

 

[tiiberius]

What else?
URLs like Pinterest Pins, what helps in getting them indexed?

This covers everything. But if you want specific methods...

Anything that is already indexed and regularly crawled can help.

• sending direct ping
• Reddit post
• using shortners
• YouTube video
• web 2.0 link
• etc

 

[Meezoo]

This cover everything. But if you want specific methods...

Anything that is already indexed and regularly crawled can help.

• sending direct ping
• Reddit post
• using shortners
• YouTube video
• web 2.0 link
• etc

What do you mean by a youtube video?

 

[tiiberius]

What do you mean by a youtube video?

Upload a video and link from description.

 

[RMX]

It needs to be:

• discoverable (achieved easily by with existing backlinks, ideally with traffic)
• crawlable (bots must be allowed and source must be worthy of crawling)
• indexable (no restrictions either from user or search engine)
• worthy of indexing (quality piece of content generally speaking)

If you follow all these points you don't have to worry about indexing. Basic checklist when you build backlinks

 

[Hiexperts]

The factors that play into getting a link indexed by Google are:

Crawl frequency of Google's bots
Quality of the Source Page
Internal Linking
Website Traffic
Freshness of the contents