There are many ways to get google to notice you. But I would have to agree that these here are the top ways to get there. Keeping your site clean and fresh is also very important. Get out there and be seen! Good luck everyone!
PageRank
It depends a lot on PageRank. The higher your PageRank the more pages that will be indexed. PageRank isn't a blanket number for all your pages. Each page has its own PageRank. A high PageRank gives the Googlebot more of a reason to return. A higher PageRank means a deeper crawl.
Links
Give the Googlebot something to follow...VERY important! Links (especially deep links) from a high PageRank site are golden as the trust is already established.
Internal links can help, too. Link to important pages from your homepage. On content pages link to relevant content on other pages.
Sitemap
A lot of buzz around this one...some report that a clear, well-structured Sitemap helped get all of their pages indexed. Google's Webmaster guidelines recommends submitting a Sitemap file, too: Tell us all about your pages by submitting a Sitemap file; help us learn which pages are most important to you and how often those pages change. Some recommend having a Sitemap for every category or section of a site.
Speed
Recent reports indicate that page load time and the ease with which the Googlebot can crawl a page may affect how many pages are indexed. The faster the Googlebot (spiders) can crawl, the greater number of pages that can be indexed. This could involve simplifying the navigation or structures of the site. The spiders have difficulty with Flash and Ajax. A text version should be added in those instances.
Google's crawl caching proxy
Any one of three indexes may crawl a site and send the information to a remote server, which is accessed by the remaining indexes (like the blog index or the AdSense index) instead of the bots for those indexes physically visiting your site. They will all use the mirror instead. This is why many of the "big guys" update their systems, to make the engine faster.
Verify
Verify the site using the Google Webmaster tools.
Content, content, content
Make sure content is original. If a verbatim copy of another page, the Googlebot may skip it. Update frequently. This will keep the content fresh. Pages with an older timestamp might be viewed as static, outdated, or already indexed.
Size matters
If you want tens of millions of pages indexed, your site will probably have to be on an Amazon or Microsoft level.
Know how your site is found, and tell Google
Search your site and find the top queries that lead to your site and remember that anchor text helps in links. Use Google's tools to see which of your pages are indexed, and if there are violations of some kind. Specify your preferred domain so Google knows what to index.
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