Getting Listed On Google

You can use a new service that Google is currently testing, called Sitemaps. This offers some fantastic tools that makeskeeping track of your site’s ranking (and any problems with thatranking) a breeze. You’ll be able to learn which of your URLs Google has had trouble crawling and the reasons they couldn’t crawl them; the common text in external links to your site (so you’ll know what your users were looking at before they reached you); and best of all, the most common search queries that sent users to you.

It will also help Google keep up to date easily with pages that have been updated. For an AdSense site that’s very important. While it’s possible that you’ll have static content and focus on bringing streams of users in to view it, it’s more likely that you’re going to be adding pages and posts to keep visitors coming back and fresh ads going up.

Sitemaps should help Google list those new entries much faster, giving you users for those pages right away. You can take a look at Sitemaps, and submit your site at http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/. You just have to enter you URL, verify that you’re the owner by uploading some metatag information, and you’ll pick up a ton of valuable traffic information for free.