Lets say you’ve been working for 3 hours composing a great lengthy how-to article on Mobile SEO and how it affects your rankings. You just finished proofreading and you’ve just hit the Publish button. Now what? How can I get my new post indexed quickly in the search engines?

If these are questions you are asking yourself, then hopefully I’m able to answer those for you. I will tell you my secrets on how to get your content indexed fast in Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Before we go any further, please do me a favor and make sure your content is over 500 words and actually provides some valuable content for the reader. Search engines hate content that is lacking length and quality, as well as content that is irrelevant to the site.

1) Use WordPress to build your website

For every blog I’ve created, I always build it on top of WordPress, a free and open source web software platform that allows you to easily create a website or blog. I’ve also built a lot of custom web apps using WordPress as well.

The cool thing about the default WordPress install is the ability for it to ping out when you make a new post. Once you click Publish on a new post, you will send out a “ping” behind the scenes to a service called Ping O’ Matic that then lets hundreds of other services know that you have created a new post on your blog.

Having your post syndicated on hundreds of different services gives you a better chance of having your content crawled more quickly. All you have to do is sit back and let the ping do all the work.

2) Use your social channels

Twitter, Facebook and Google+ are some of the most common and largest social media platforms that people use to communicate. Wherever the largest group of people are located…that’s where you want to have your content as well. Facebook and Twitter have some of the highest domain authorities on the Internet.

Google doesn’t index all of tweets from Twitter. Studies have shown that they are more likely to index tweets that have 1 million followers or more and that indexing is not particularly fast. Even though Google takes time to index your tweets, you are still getting your content out to a group of people. Those people could share your content to another group which in turn could share it again. Eventually it will get linked and shared to a location where Google crawls frequently.

3) Build a high authoritative site with fresh content

From personal experience, I have been able to get content indexed within minutes using this method. I have a site called Outdoorzy that gets very good traffic from visitors who like hunting and fishing. In the last 90 days, Googlebot crawled an average of 235 pages per day on my site. I believe due to building the site up over the past three years and providing visitors with fresh and relevant content to outdoor enthusiasts, Google realizes that Outdoorzy is a trustworthy site. Provide visitors and Google with fresh content. It takes time to build a brand. Rand Fishkin from Moz says it takes at least two years to build a successful blog. And that’s exactly what happened with Outdoorzy.

4) Submit your site to Google

Not always the fastest method, but doesn’t hurt either. Submit your new URL to Google for indexing at google.com/addurl

5) Use Webmaster Tools

One of the first things you should do when setting up a new site is create a Google Webmaster Tools account. This lets you control how your site will appear in Google search results and verifies that you actually own the domain. When signing up, it will give you a long meta tag that you copy and paste into your header for verification. After that, you can use the “fetch as googlebot” tool that’s specifically designed to get your content indexed faster than usual.

6) Get a link from another highly trafficked website

I could easily turn this section into a whole other article but I’ll keep it short. Use your relationships with other people who have larger sites that get indexed easily to see if they will link to your site, even for just a short period until your site gets indexed. If you still can’t get any links from other sites, here’s a list of blogs that allow dofollow commenting.

7) Create an Adwords account

When creating an ad in Google’s Adwords platform, you have to give your ad a landing page for your visitors to go to. Google will visit your landing page to check it for it’s quality score and to make sure the page doesn’t give a 404 error. Since it crawls that landing page, it will get indexed in the SERPS.

Hopefully these tips will help you get your site and new pages indexed more quickly. If you have any other ways to get indexed fast, leave a comment below.