Submitting pages to google to expidite them finding links to my site
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Is it a good practice to submit a page linking to my site to expedite google finding the link or is it better to wait for the google spider to find it?
Thanks,
Ron!
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Very good point. I usually don't post external links TO my site on G+ so I didn't think of this. I do this for discovery of my own pages but not the other way around. Good tip!
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We've also seen links posted in G+ getting crawled more quickly. Not fool proof or guaranteed (or something you should do with a ton of links), but certainly an easy thing for a one-off page you want crawled quickly.
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Exactly the answer I would have given as well.
You don't really "need" to do this - but if you do end up needing something indexed/deindexed, it's a good idea to expedite this way (and it works!)
I mainly use force recrawl for 301s and disavows. 301 to get old pages deindexed and disavow to get links I've removed recrawled. Other than that, it's not really super useful to ping every link you get. That is the type of thing that, if overdone, can get you beat down by Google.
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Matt-Pop has some good data on using Ping tools to help accelerate changes that he discusses here: http://moz.com/community/q/new-site-pages-are-indexed-but-not-ranking-for-anything and here: http://moz.com/blog/can-you-disavow-out-of-penguin-whiteboard-friday#comment-315319
In general though Google knows about the link if the page linking to you is showing up in their index. Just run a search on the page URL itself to find if that's the case. GWT is very slow at reporting links in comparison to how quickly the search index operates. Cheers!
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