Things You Should Do Immediately After Launching a Website
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Disallowing your css/js files in your robots.txt is probably not a good idea - Matt Cutts said as much himself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNEipHjsEPU
If you're running Wordpress, disallowing your /uploads/ directory will nuke your Google Image Search prospects, as Googlebot won't be able to crawl any of your images to begin with.
Also, submitting to a paid directory such as Best of the Web or the Yahoo! Directory would be a much better use of your time. DMOZ is still a valuable directory (for a lot of reasons), but the likelihood is small that they will review, let alone add your site to the directory in a timely manner (if ever).
A few other things worth doing: - Create a Twitter account for your site. - Create a Facebook page for your site.
I forgot all about it until I saw this, so I guess I'll check back sometime in 2013.
These directories are valued by the search engines because all listings are not automatically approved, so there is a certain quality aspect to the listings. While the directories don't send very much traffic, they do pass trust to the sites they are linking to.
It can be tough to get a DMOZ listing, particularly if the category you are applying to doesn't currently have an editor. However, it's worth it if you can get accepted.
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Regardless, this is a good list and contains a few things I ALWAYS forget to do (site-map & Google Webmaster tools).
ADD: most importantly, understand why "they" don't come :)
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A couple important things the article leaves out:
1) Create a cron script or otherwise automate sitemap creation. Otherwise, its easy to forget to manually add new pages.
2) Put a useful succinct meta description in the header of all your pages. Otherwise you leave the little blurb of text that shows up on google search results to chance and miss potential clicks on search results.
Seriously, what is the problem with a list post? Yes, it's a hook. Why is that a problem?
If the original title begins with a number or number + gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids."
I think the point of the guideline is to keep things fact-oriented here, and to keep the amount of sensationalism, hyperbole, and "link-baiting" on HN to a minimum.
I agree that we should respect the HN submission guidelines, but the OP seemed to be expressing approval that the original post wasn't titled as such. Additionally, I hardly think that numbering your main points counts as sensationalism or hyperbole. Maybe it's link-baiting in some cases, but I think that's a stretch.
Although each item may be obvious and discussed in greater depth a thousand other places, a list is sometimes really helpful.
Sifting through sixrevisions.com ... they have some fantastic shit. Good writing, sure, but GREAT topics-- and that's such a rarity.
A big* high-five to abraham for the submission.
*The kind that makes your hand sting. Because I love you, that's why.
Good Luck getting in.
Many sites do not notify google when their XML sitemap is updated yet it is a very efficient way to achieve instant indexing for new content!
While large sites with high PR are crawled frequently, crawling rates for small/medium sites will never result in instant indexing unless they use this method.
Use it and gain some search engine results momentum!