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02-09-2012, 05:35 PM
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|  %&$* Google won't index my site!
I've had my site up for about a week, but it refuses to show up in search results at all even though I have several links to it! When I do a link: search to my site I get no results, even though I've put 10 or more links to it around the internet. This is getting frustrating! I went to Google webmaster's tools to try to find out what was wrong yesterday, and as a result added a robots.txt to my site: User-agent: * Allow: / So Google has now had my website and my sitemap for 13 hours. Webmaster's tools says they're both good, but it still insists that my site doesn't exist and no one is linking to it! |
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02-09-2012, 05:36 PM
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| HyperActive Warrior  Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Long Beach, California
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| Re: %&$* Google won't index my site!
Ping your sites. go to pingler.com pingoat.com Chill out. Create more content within your site as well. |
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02-09-2012, 05:50 PM
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| Re: %&$* Google won't index my site!
Thanks GG. I hadn't heard of pinging before. It looks like that should help.. I'll skip pingoat since I'm running a shopping cart rather then a blog  |
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02-09-2012, 05:55 PM
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| Marketing Bob War Room Member  Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Ancaster ON Canada
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| Re: %&$* Google won't index my site!
post and ping. Some content takes longer than others. cheers
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02-09-2012, 06:17 PM
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| Re: %&$* Google won't index my site!
Use site:domain.com instead of the link: search operator, If your checking for pages indexed on a specific domain. Also, the site: search operator is sensitive to www & non-www URLs. Example: Notice the result count differences between the two links above, for www & non-www. Before Yahoo Explorer was shut down you could check backlinks really fast on sites & the differences between www & non-www were sometimes huge. Quote:
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02-09-2012, 06:36 PM
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| Re: %&$* Google won't index my site!
Hmm... the site: keyword does give some results... all of them from the previous webcart that I deleted off my site a week ago! Why must Google be so slow? Those ping sites all seem to be focused around blogs.. is it really ok to use them for non-blog websites? |
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02-09-2012, 06:47 PM
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| Re: %&$* Google won't index my site! Quote:
Make sure you copy & paste the exact URLs from Google SERPs on any dead links. Once the 301 redirects are finished, go back to the SERPs & click through each link in the SERPs to your dead pages, make sure the SERP links actually do a redirect back to your Index page. | |
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02-09-2012, 06:48 PM
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| Re: %&$* Google won't index my site!
Why are you using Link: btw coz that search operator is used to find sites LINKING TO your site, since your site is new, you're practically searching for backlinks pointing to your site which may never be indexed if they're low quality. Use the site: as suggested. Refer - Google Search Operators - Google Guide |
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02-09-2012, 07:28 PM
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| Re: %&$* Google won't index my site! Quote:
I've redirected the 10 highest ranking links (there are 3 pages of links). Hopefully Google will get the point before long.How long do you think it might take for Google to get it's act together? | |
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02-09-2012, 07:37 PM
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If you have 3 pages full of dead links in the SERPs really they should all be redirected. When I say dead link in the SERPs I mean when you click that link in the SERPs & it returns a 404 error page on your site. Make sure the links in the SERPs are actually DOA before doing any 301 redirects. Just saying... You can check the Google Cache date on the pages in the SERPs that you redirected by doing this search operator cache:www.domain.com , when was the last cache date, it will be at the top of the cached page. That will give you an idea how often Google is looking at your pages. Fresh quality backlinks can help speed up a page getting indexed. | |
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02-09-2012, 09:12 PM
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| Re: %&$* Google won't index my site!
lol, when I do a cache of my site, I get 404'd by Google! I've never seen Google throw a 404 error before. Looks like the cache is from Dec 27th 2011 |
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02-24-2012, 03:27 AM
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| Re: %&$* Google won't index my site!
It's going to take much longer to find stuff on a link: search. Trust yukon. Yukon gives good advice.
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