Problems with blog and google indexing it

[fuzzybuzz]

Hi warriors,

I have a domain I've registered about 1.5 months ago and shortly after registering it I installed wordpress on it. I have then worked on another project first before coming back to it.

I've been working on it now for the past week. I changed the design and created several posts and pages since then, but Google doesn't seem to notice any of these changes or index my new posts.

I have submitted a sitemap and the Google bot has visited my site several times since I started working on it again, but only one new post is indexed and the homepage is still only indexed as the default hello world wordpress post.

I'm now starting to build more links to the site but I'm wondering how long it will take for Google to actually start indexing my posts and to change the homepage? Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

Edit: I have also pinged all new posts and pinged the homepage and submitted them to digg and delicious.

[ExploringInfinity]

You need to build more links to the URLs you want indexed. With a brand new site and low quality links it can take a few days for a page to get indexed.

Also, you need to have new fresh and unique content on your site, not spun garbage, short generic posts, or other crappy 'easy' content.

Aim for articles no shorter than 600 words with at least 2 images per post (with keywords as alt tags).

Make sure you have your keyword as the H1 tag, as well as some H2 and H3 tags with keywords or related keywords in them.

Split up your posts into subheadings for readers and for google, and this gives you an opportunity to place subheadings in H2 or H3 tags and use your keywords.

Build links and follow the advice above and you should have NO PROBLEM getting your URLs indexed.

My new sites and URLs are usually indexed within about 3-10 hours after I open them to search engines and start building my first few links to get them indexed.

And you can always head over to IMTalk dot org and use their website indexer. If you set it on the top 100 and let it go you should have your site indexed in no time.

Originally Posted by fuzzybuzz

Hi warriors,

I have a domain I've registered about 1.5 months ago and shortly after registering it I installed wordpress on it. I have then worked on another project first before coming back to it.

I've been working on it now for the past week. I changed the design and created several posts and pages since then, but Google doesn't seem to notice any of these changes or index my new posts.

I have submitted a sitemap and the Google bot has visited my site several times since I started working on it again, but only one new post is indexed and the homepage is still only indexed as the default hello world wordpress post.

I'm now starting to build more links to the site but I'm wondering how long it will take for Google to actually start indexing my posts and to change the homepage? Any ideas?

Thanks a lot!

Edit: I have also pinged all new posts and pinged the homepage and submitted them to digg and delicious.

[fuzzybuzz]

Thanks ExploringInfinity,

I have done most of these already and my articles are all unique and 800-1200 words long. I guess I just have to concentrate on building a few more links and be patient.

[ExploringInfinity]

Originally Posted by fuzzybuzz

Thanks ExploringInfinity,

I have done most of these already and my articles are all unique and 800-1200 words long. I guess I just have to concentrate on building a few more links and be patient.

Yes run it through a few more links then if you've already done everything I mentioned.

I find it hard to believe a site would not be indexed after 1.5 months with all of the above strategies in place and links being built to it regularly. .

That would indicate something else is possibly the problem. Are you sure your site is allowing spider activity? In wordpress and many other platforms there is an option to disallow search engines and web spiders. If this is enabled you would not be able to get your site indexed.

Do you have a sitemap with a dofollow footer link to it? That's a good idea if you haven't already done so.

Have you looked at your robots.txt file to make sure it's not messed up? If you have your site set to noindex or something in the robots.txt file you would be turning away googles indexing bots...

Hopefully one of these things will help you get indexed!

[warrich]

Use anchor text, and header tags with your keywords and link them to the relevant pages in your site. Also submit the blog to RSS feeds directory so that SE can get to know that new content has been added to your blog.