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By submitting a xml sitemap to the Google Webmaster Tools.

The more fresh content you have on your site the more Google will look.

Easiest way to notify Google of new content could be through Feedburner. Content is generated and Google receives a ping.

Index entire site? Sitemap is the fastest and probably most effective.

In my expreience running a website feed through FeedBruner and adding a autodiscory sitemap.xml file in your robots.txt file.

This will cover both news or any other items in your Feed setup, complete with new pages trhough the sitemap.xml file.

P.s. nice linkbait Steve :-)

This advice is for a blog-type Joomla site such as Steve's site here or my own site at http://www.nitsche.org (German).

I agree with both commenters that submitting an XML sitemap is important. My tool of choice is Joomap which does an excellent job of creating both a visual sitemap for your visitors as well as an XML sitemap that you can submit to Google.

Additionally, have a working RSS feed on your site that can be autodiscovered. (Does Firefox show the orange RSS icon in the address bar when you look at your site?)

If you use friendly URLs on your site, make sure your feed outputs friendly URLs as well. (I had to hack core code for this to work.)

Also, whenever you add a new article, ping Google Blogsearch at http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 as well as the other usual ping services such as Technorati etc. There's a brand new small component out there that finally adds ping functionality to Joomla: http://extensions.joomla.org/c...Itemid,35/

It might need a bit of hacking - I got a few errors from some of the pre-set services it connects to - but it closes a gap that has existed for too long.

Kind regards,
Zorro

Personaly I always find that printing out a hard copy of all new pages on my site and mailing them to Google Inc, USA with a big sticker on the envelope stating "New Content Inside" works

The right way is to use XML-RPC2 (as described by Zorro). BUT! Almost all weblog ping programs use "weblogUpdates.ping" method instead of "weblogUpdates.extendedPing". "weblogUpdates.ping" says to Google only the fact that site was modified, and "weblogUpdates.extendedPing" says URL of the page to be checked for changes too (see http://www.google.com/help/blo...g_API.html).
May be I'll add such feature in the forthcoming release of Joomla! Weblog ping component (http://physicist.phpnet.us/cat...ions/ping/).

Regards
Denis Ryabov
(aka Physicist)

What's the best way to get listed on google's site? Just introduce yourself. Go to http://www.google.com/addurl/ and follow the directions. It's like meeting someone for the first time. Then conversate with google by using an ajax key, submitting rss to feedburner, and using adwords. The more you talk with google, the better they will get to know you. Of course it helps to leave messages for google on your site and use some tags.

I have Larry Page and Sergey Brin on speed dial. I just call them every time I write an article, and they make sure it gets prime placement in the search results.

If that doesn't work, sometimes I resort to Google voodoo magic.

If that doesn't work, you could try that "ping" stuff the other guys are talking about, but that's not very realistic.

Submit a sitemap...

googles robots get a big ego boost from this
and you could try making an html page with all of googles subdomains listed one line at a time.. then submit your sitemap to the big G
Its an experiment,.. try it!
Cheers!

digg your blog, google will index

Getting a high ranking website (say 6 and up) to provide a link back to your frontpage. Frontpage will be indexed within a few hours

Social bookmark your new pages at as many social bookmarking sites as you can (StumbleUpon, Delicious, Digg etc) will get your pages indexed within a few hours also submit your RSS feed to as many places as possible (Technorati, FeedBurner, Squidoo and Hub pages, etc). Create good quality content that visitors are going to want to bookmark themselves, share with friends and link to from their own sites.