{"id":663,"date":"2016-02-03T18:06:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T10:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/yap\/?page_id=663"},"modified":"2016-02-03T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T10:33:41","slug":"registering-your-website-to-google","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/yap\/wordpress-website-guide\/registering-your-website-to-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Registering your website to Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

First and foremost, you should know that Google search engine uses a “machine” called Googlebot and it crawls the web to index it.<\/p>\n

If Googlebot did not or could not visit your website, these are the consequences:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. You are unable to find your website in your Google search results
    \nexample:\u00a0site:science.utm.my\/yap<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Your “hits” did not increase even though you added more contents.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Before I explain further,\u00a0the term “hits” here is a misnomer.\u00a0Many refer to the google search results as “Hits”.<\/p>\n

    The truth is:<\/p>\n

    “Hits” = is somewhat closer to the meaning of “visits”<\/p>\n

    “Google Results” = number of pages<\/p>\n

    To get your bonus marks in webometrics, you will need:<\/p>\n

    1% = 100\u00a0pages
    \n2% = 250\u00a0pages
    \n3% = 500 pages
    \n4% = 1000 pages
    \n5% = 2000 pages<\/p>\n

    As of 3 Feb 2016, this is my google search results:<\/p>\n

    \"20160203<\/a><\/p>\n

    Back to the main story, how do you encourage Googlebot to visit and index your website?<\/p>\n

    A. Link your website to the front page of a famous website. <\/strong><\/p>\n

    Situation 1:<\/em><\/p>\n

    www.utm.my is a famous website and probably is constantly crawled by Googlebot and your website link<\/em> is at the front page of www.utm.my.\u00a0— Googlebot to reach your page very fast.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Situation 2:<\/em><\/p>\n

    Your page website link is buried deep away from www.utm.my. For example: from the UTM front page, it links to Research Alliance, which links to your faculty, which links to your department, which is linked to your unit and finally to your page. \u00a0— this will take a longer time\u00a0for Googlebot to reach your page.<\/em><\/p>\n

    B.\u00a0Create something that is sensational and will viral around the net<\/strong><\/p>\n

    C. \u00a0Submit your website to googlebot<\/a> and wait for them to crawl to your website.
    \nYou will need to login.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \"googlebot\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Frequently asked question:<\/p>\n

    How soon will Googlebot visit my website?<\/strong><\/span>
    \n We have no control over it. It might be 1 day, it maybe be months.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    I have added many pages but my google search results\u00a0is not up-to-date.
    \n<\/strong>Well,\u00a0since the previous visit from Googlebot, it has not crawled your website again. Hence, no change.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    First and foremost, you should know that Google search engine uses a “machine” called Googlebot and it crawls the web to index it. If Googlebot did not or could not visit your website, these are the consequences: You are unable to find your website in your Google search results example:\u00a0site:science.utm.my\/yap Your “hits” did not increase […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14205,"featured_media":0,"parent":488,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-663","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/663\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/yap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}