getting google to index
ok, currently lot of my time is invested to search engine optimize a social travel guide. basically imagine a few hundred thousand pages of unique travel content by professionals with lots’n'lots incoming content of community members on a complete new -fresh & not used before- domain.
the first challenge is indexing, which means
- sitemap.xml (does not perform)
- human readable sitemap (performs much better form my experience),
- navigation optimization (URLs and unique linktext) and
- page weight reduction (less KB, gzip, …).
but also for indexing
- linkbuilding
Google just stops after a while if it has enough pages but can’t estimate how important the site is and if it is worth indexing. Basically after getting a few (50+) links out there in the blogosphere the indexing kick starts again.