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Help! I think my internet's broke...

by n00b
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Ok, so I know the internet's not "broke" but sometimes it can feel that way I posted a Squidoo lens over a week and a half ago and it is still not indexed by Google. It has never taken this long before, so I'm wondering if there is anything "wrong" that would cause my lens not to be indexed? It seems like things are taking longer to index in general for me lately. Could having too many links to the same website do it? (I have 5 total using 2 keyword phrases as anchor text which is more links to one site than I've ever done in a lens.) Any ideas, thoughts, comments?

I know I need to be patient (a virtue I lack) but it wouldn't have me so concerned if I didn't know from experience that it usually takes about a day for my lenses to get indexed.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oscar D
    I have also battled to get one of my sites indexed. It has taken about a month and the entire site is still not indexed, its only 10 pages and about 6 are indexed so far.

    Not good man!
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    • Profile picture of the author Devon Brown
      Originally Posted by Oscar D View Post

      I have also battled to get one of my sites indexed. It has taken about a month and the entire site is still not indexed, its only 10 pages and about 6 are indexed so far.

      Not good man!
      Have you tried submitting a sitemap to Google Webmasters?
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      • Profile picture of the author Oscar D
        Originally Posted by Renegade Success View Post

        Have you tried submitting a sitemap to Google Webmasters?
        Yes, it did do that, but there was a problem with a robots.txt file that was stopping the Google bot.

        I have fixed that problem now.

        Now its just a waiting game.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Gosse
    Have you posted it to digg and twitter?
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    • Profile picture of the author Oscar D
      Originally Posted by Brad Gosse View Post

      Have you posted it to digg and twitter?
      I tried and it still has taken such a long time.
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  • Profile picture of the author n00b
    I haven't done any social bookmarking with my lens, mainly because I've never had to. I usually just bookmark my site. I'll go ahead digg it and see if that helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author MSanchez
    I've always put adsense on my sites I want indexed and it seems to help :-)
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  • Profile picture of the author patJ
    Get more backlinks....

    that's pretty much it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Devon Brown
    Originally Posted by n00b View Post

    Ok, so I know the internet's not "broke" but sometimes it can feel that way I posted a Squidoo lens over a week and a half ago and it is still not indexed by Google. It has never taken this long before, so I'm wondering if there is anything "wrong" that would cause my lens not to be indexed? It seems like things are taking longer to index in general for me lately. Could having too many links to the same website do it? (I have 5 total using 2 keyword phrases as anchor text which is more links to one site than I've ever done in a lens.) Any ideas, thoughts, comments?

    I know I need to be patient (a virtue I lack) but it wouldn't have me so concerned if I didn't know from experience that it usually takes about a day for my lenses to get indexed.
    I say what the others have said. Submit it to some social bookmarking sites and wait.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brad Gosse
    It could be possible your lens or its content is somehow blacklisted
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  • Profile picture of the author bhopkins
    Ping is your friend
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  • Profile picture of the author n00b
    Update: I submitted my lens to digg like someone suggested and now it's showing up!

    Thanks guys!
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