Getting your site into Google index seems to be easy but it’s not that easy as it seems so. The most effective way of getting a website in Google index is to link to it from another site already indexed. There are other ways too of getting into the Google index without taking the chance of getting caught up in a link farm and risk losing position.

Try using Google Maps/Google Authentication. Google Maps have been around for a while and can be submitted at http://www.google.com/sitemaps, but you may also want to take it one step further and authenticate your web site at the same time. It’s as easy as adding a premade Google meta tag or uploading a .html file.

Google says that the authentication is for three main purposes

Crawling Information - This is to make sure your web site is accessible to the robots. You are able to see if the bot has had issues with HTTP errors, pages not found, URLs that aren’t followed, URLs restricted by the robots.txt file, URLs that timed out and unreachable URLs.

Robots.txt Validation - This is to assure that the bot can access and read the file.

Content - A neat section of information that shows you how the Google Bot sees your web site content.

All in all the Google Authentication is a great tool for webmasters and best of all, it’s a free service.