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We noticed that some people are having a harder time getting indexed than they did before. But thankfully there is still a way to get indexed quickly!

One thing we noticed works really well, and we are starting to do it on all our web sites, is putting a blog as the main index page.

Why does this work so well? Probably because the search engines notice you updated your web site every time you add content to the blog.

When the blog is in a sub folder, the search engines might not see it every time they visit.

Especially when your site is brand new, it doesn't get all its pages spidered right away. But the index page gets spidered practically every time a bot visits.

If a search engine notices your web site is being updated frequently, it is more likely to be indexed. It will also be indexed deeper (meaning more pages will be indexed) and the pages will rank higher in the search results!

How do you put a blog as the index page?

It's actually quite simple. Normally when you install a blog (WordPress for example) you put all the files into a new folder. To have the blog as the main page, you just upload all the files in the root directory.

For example, in one of our videos we showed you how to install WordPress. We put all the files into a folder called "blog". If we wanted the blog to be the index page, we wouldn't have even created a new folder at all.

You could also change the WordPress template so it looks like the rest of your site. This way it doesn't look like there is a blog on the front page. This can be a little tricky to do so we're working on a video that shows you how to do that.

And remember... you still need to post messages to your blog frequently in order to get your site indexed faster. But even posting as little as once a day has a huge impact on how fast it happens!