How to make your wiki searchable from google.com?

How to make your wiki searchable from google.com?

devviki 1191341629|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

I was just wondering what you need to do in order for your wiki to be searchable from google.com?

Thanks

Re: How to make your wiki searchable from google.com?

gerdami 1191345497|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Nothing special. Your website will be indexed by Google like billions of sites in the Universe. (Google is now indexing the sky…).

However, it is possible for you to customize your own Google search engine.
HowTo is here : http://community.wikidot.com/howto:add-a-custom-google-search-engine

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Re: How to make your wiki searchable from google.com?

hartnell 1191359895|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

When you create a public wiki, it is listed here : http://www.wikidot.com/list-all-sites

Because this page is already in Google's database, it will follow links from this page and spider those sites as well. It takes time.

If you are searching for your site after awhile and it doesn't turn up, that means that your site does not have the ranking it needs to be seen on the first few pages you check.

—hartnell

Re: How to make your wiki searchable from google.com?

devviki 1191419610|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Thanks hartnell!

Re: How to make your wiki searchable from google.com?

jhubert 1194616782|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Here's a little trick I used for the Art Tutorials Wiki:

I went through the list of newest tutorials at DeviantArt. I added links to these tutorials from my wiki. Then I added a comment to these tutorials at DeviantArt that notified the creator that the tutorial had been linked to from the wiki, as well as a link to the precise page on the wiki where that link can be found.

The results in Google searches are obvious - at the time of this writing, the Art Tutorials Wiki is at the #10 spot when googling for "art tutorials. After all, the Google PageRank system rates your site as "more important" if other sites link to yours more often - which is something I have accomplished all by myself. :D

Spammers often operate on the same principle, BTW. Except that unlike them, I don't get hated for my activities… ;)

Re: How to make your wiki searchable from google.com?

gerdami 1208948231|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

A comprehensive article from SmashingMagazine: Google PageRank: What Do We Know About It?