How do I get google to crawl my site?

[turntwo21]

This works great! Thanks guys!

[paulde]

We had our website re-designed earlier this year, and had a few issues along the way, not all are sorted out as yet, but most of it is there. However, we have suffered in our rankings on Google, which has only just happended recently. Can anyone give me any recommendations on how to boost our ranking and get Google to re-crawl our site? http://www.sea-band.com

I've read some of the previous posts, and there seems to be a lot about blogging/social networks. Our website is fairly static, although I was thinking I could add a page for new press stories, or even a couple of highly targetted pages that are geared towards the individual topics of travel, pregnancy and chemotherapy nausea. Are these good things to do? Or should I be concentrating my efforts elsewhere?

Apologies if this is in the wrong place, but this thread got me thinking!
- Thanks.

[Scottmarch]

all of this stuff is great - thanks

[benrobertsjr]

Lots more seemingly useful information here then in google's manuals. I'm just messing around to see how things work and there was definitely some useful posts in this thread. Thanks. testing

[johnny.litson]

Originally Posted by Matt Helphrey

<meta name="Revisit-after" content="30 days"><meta name="Rating" content="GENERAL">

This is a very good tip Matt, thanks...

[theinternetguy]

hello everyone. I am a good samaritan - the value only provider - no link promotions, this is what I have to say:

before google crawls your site you want to have backlinks coming to your website.. this is the biggest mistake people make.. when google finds out about your website, google automatically detects the value and importance through how many valuable backlinks you have pointing to your website..

so this is exactly what you do and you will thank me later:

1. submit articles to directories that let you have a backlink to your website
2. post on forums with a link pointing back to your site via signature
3. submit to article directtories
4. dop some blogging or get bloggers to write review about your website
5. the best and last thing is to submit a press release about your website - ver high quality backlink in the eyes of google by the way

6. wait about 20-30 days for all your backinks to propagate around the interent

7. then and only them you make a google account and use google webamster tools to add your site to the google index by adding a google sitemap.

this will really make you happy.. believe me just do it.. this is what i do to all my adsens sites that earn me well over 2-3k each per month

As for the nature of me just helping, I refuse to post links to services so please google the traffic methods I mentioned and you're good to go, again I am only here to add value not to promote anything

cheers; hope this was helpful..

[thenewloan]

I am having a similar issue. My website TheNewLoan Get a free quote. Refinance your home mortgage with a local lender. has been indexed by google but only some of the pages are being scanned. Most of the pages haven't been scanned in 30+ days.

I have tried all the basics - submitting sitemaps - pinging google - requesting a reconsideration of my site - optimization etc...

Is there anything else I can try?

(this is regarding the states section under The New Loan - National Refinance Mortgage Lender, Home Loans, Mortgage Rates )

Thanks,
Anthony

[MBeshr]

submit your sitemap to google
and then apply as you can from the seotips in my sig. that will increase your site ranking and traffic

[alliedgroup]

Hi guys,
Very nice tips posted in this thread.
However, Ive been trying my best to get my homepage crawled by google whwich isnt happening after it first crawled 3 months ago. My homepage is Antenna Installation Sydney | Allied Antennas | Home Theatre | TV Aerial
One of the member from google forums mentioned I had a two faulty urls which are w.alliedantennas.com.au and http://asdfasdfsadfasdfasdf.alliedantennas.com.au/ . I have already redirected (301) to the valid homepage.

But The member also stated this"
A simple thing that I would suggest you do right away is to fully state all the URLs on your site. "
I dont know what that means. If anyone can understand this, please explain it it me. thanks
Why Googlebot hasn't recrawled my website for nearly 3 months? - Webmaster Central Help

Kind Regards,

[alliedgroup]

Originally Posted by alliedgroup

Hi guys,
Very nice tips posted in this thread.
However, Ive been trying my best to get my homepage crawled by google whwich isnt happening after it first crawled 3 months ago. My homepage is Antenna Installation Sydney | Allied Antennas | Home Theatre | TV Aerial
One of the member from google forums mentioned I had a two faulty urls which are w.alliedantennas.com.au and http://asdfasdfsadfasdfasdf.alliedantennas.com.au/ . I have already redirected (301) to the valid homepage.

But The member also stated this"
A simple thing that I would suggest you do right away is to fully state all the URLs on your site. "
I dont know what that means. If anyone can understand this, please explain it it me. thanks
Why Googlebot hasn't recrawled my website for nearly 3 months? - Webmaster Central Help

Kind Regards,

could anyone help me in the above situation thanks.

[johnng]

Have you tried adding your URL to Google? Try this link: Add your URL to Google
You can do the same for YAHOO and MSN but I forgot the links for those.

[alliedgroup]

Originally Posted by johnng

Have you tried adding your URL to Google? Try this link: Add your URL to Google
You can do the same for YAHOO and MSN but I forgot the links for those.

I already did submit it in all search engines. And Im already indexed. But im just confused on what to do with my last post ?

[johnng]

Originally Posted by alliedgroup

I already did submit it in all search engines. And Im already indexed. But im just confused on what to do with my last post ?

OH Brother! Never mind, it is Xmas!

[hersk]

Thank you so much for all the tips here. I will put them to good use.

Hersk

Hersk

[zcrafts]

Better SEO and good site map is key to get google crawler on your site.

[AGRCooper]

Hi, All.
I've only just come across this forum, and have been reading this thread with great interest. There seems to be a lot of people out there with good help and advice who are only too happy to pass it on, maybe it's not a completely dog eat dog world afterall.

My wife Janet Cooper and I run a small Patchwork and Quilting business in West Sussex in the UK. It's been going for quite a few years now, but this year I have decided I have got to drastically improve our web presence.

Thanks for all the good advice, all I have to do know in knuckle down and try them out.

BTW we use XCART 4.3 for our website, has anyone got any do's an don'ts on getting an XCART site crawled?

Thanks again
Alistair

[markvanhaze]

First of all thanks for all the helpful tips here.
I did follow most of the SEO tips but theres something I cant quite understand.
Google webmaster tools is showing me that it has visited 5 links out of 16, from my sitemap. I dont see which ones and I dont know why it hasnt crawled all links in the sitemap.

My hope was that with uploading a sitemap Google would recrawl the domain because when I search for the site, I still get the old crawl results, from back before the site was even uploaded and only the webspace was reserved. So it seems Google indexes any domain that gets registered and in my case, that registration took place a good month before I even uploaded the site.

Any ideas would be appreciated - http://alwayswindy.com

[Charles.Abramson]

I'm dealing with the same situation as leesteve -- with Yahoo Site Solution I submitted my URL to Google, but don't think the site has been crawled & have been unable to figure out how to get it verified, as it doesn't appear to give access to the underlying html or even the ability to upload a file.

I'll try linking to this & other blogs and if I make any headway, maybe I'll get inspired to try some of the other suggestions here!

www.terraendeavors.net

[minisitezone]

wow this was really helpfull post guys many thanks for this let me test it for severall new sites

[Shinxware]

Very useful informations.
Sometimes you just never stop learning.

Thank you all guys.

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[luckystar]

Hi,
Google can crawl your site through various means, but as a matter of fact I would advice you to do it through the search engine optimization. This entails that while building your site make sure you give proper attention to the meta tag line in the HTML found within the head (<head> </head>). You have to get a researched number of targeted keywords relating to your site contents. After which, there are set of codes you need to input within the <head> </head> region of your html tags that will enable google crawl.

I may sound technical, yes, only website developers like me understands what i am saying. in fact, this is beyond the scope of ordinary website designer.

When properly done, you can determine the number of days you want Google to crawl your site.

[arun609]

Hi.... Last Week my website is placed in google search engine morethan 24 keywords list. Four days before I was registered the googles webmaster account. And also I did some changes on my website, so i am remove the past url in robots.txt. But Now My website is gone in google. What's happening there! I really don't know pls help me.

This is my website jaisakthigarments

[Jay Dalton]

Hey, just a couple of suggestions, create a robot.txt, and then create an xml sitemap. A good place to start with this is google webmaster tools. you can also place this into the souce code of your site.
<meta name="Revisit-after" content="7 days"><meta name="Rating" content="GENERAL">
Google is also hungry for new content, you can optimise your site with google by uploading new content to your site regulary.
Plus if its appropriate to your site google loves video. Just some suggestions mate.

-J-

[momwow]

Awesome thread! I'm going crazy getting Google with this one website.

I keep returning to WF more and more, this is fast becoming a favorite destination. Thanks to everyone for all their help.

Diana

Senior Living Columbia MO

[DDP]

Very useful info here, thanks to everyone that's contributed

[benrobertsjr]

I posted a few weeks ago, followed some of the basic instructions, and within a few days google had crawled my site, so for those who are new and reading the posts it does work, just complete the steps and have a bit of patience. thanks again for all the good info. Ben, Parent Discipline Resources

[jwaldemar]

Thanks to all who contributed to this thread and provided the numerous ideas. I used iweb for my site and haven't figured out how to add the meta tag that google wants embedded. Does anyone know how to do that? Thanks!

[valleydeptstore]

Thanks for all the information in this thread, I will have to read carefully and find a way for google to index our new site, it still showing the same descriptions for our old site even though I've tried some linking. I will read the other suggestions and post what works, thanks guys
Valley Big and Tall

[alliedgroup]

Has anyone been experiencing difficulty with google crawling for the last 3 weeks?

[momwow]

Yes! I'm amazed you said that - typically I've been able to build sites that rank quickly locally but Google doesn't seem to be finding the sites lately. It's driving me NUTS.

[alliedgroup]

yea i know ay. I was being crawled atleast twice in a week but now G' hasnt even touched the site for nearly 4 weeks and counting... Ive recently updated my website and desperate for G' to recrawl me.

[buckeye04]

Just wanted to say hello to everyone as I'm new to this forum. Thanks for all the great tips! Cheers to success!

[Raj Riyat]

Great tips

I am using Google Webmaster tools which have opened my eyes a bit.

My site has been up a running for a couple of weeks now and I expected it to be indexed and ranked by now - but no luck.

[MPahl]

I'm having the same issue - I checked my cache and it said that the last crawl was Jan 22 - I'm hoping that it will crawl it tomorrow since that would be 30 days. I tried to go through their Google verification process but even though I added their special meta tag, it still said it didn't see the tag. It may be in the wrong section but I use iWeb and iWeb SEO to control my tags - I'm not actually creating them in html so I don't know how to control the sections they get published to.

Thanks for the tips on this page!
Melissa Pahl
www.melissapahl.com

[physician]

I think in the past i registered in webmasters. This time though i'm having trouble with the sites below, both are parked? or subdomained from my original website www.alliancemaxwell.com

www.physicianjobsvermont.com
www.physicianjobsnewengland.com

Physician Jobs, Physician Opportunities - Alliance Maxwell

[merickson45]

Thanks for the great info! Definitely very useful.





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[Clint Butler]

Originally Posted by Andariels

Hello. Its one week now. I have my website on godaddy. My page is not indexed and also not crawled. I have made some backlinks yesterday (cca 10 websites from angelas package). I also add sitemap.xml on google webmaster tool and set up google analytics. Its bigger problem there? Or do i must be more patient ?

If you are still having this problem let me know I have a couple of free websites I use to get my sites indexed very quickly, I would post the links in the post but don't want to make a mod mad

If I am allowed to post links in here just let me know and I will give you what I have, I get a site indexed in a day using this method, and I get backlinks as a bonus, again they are FREE

[fabregas]

Originally Posted by alliedgroup

Has anyone been experiencing difficulty with google crawling for the last 3 weeks?

That's exactly what I wanted to ask I'm also having problems in getting indexed, so i don't know whats going on. I do have to agree that this thread is full of wonderful tips

[Recession_Proof]

Originally Posted by locpic63

Google hasn't crawled my site in over 90 days. Is there a way to get them to do this?

Hey locopic, what I do and it works rain or shine is to add a google tracking script to the site. It is usually index that SAME DAY!

I mean it has not failed me yet. (And we should be tracking anyway right????)

Hope this helps

[clositherapi]

So many great ideas shared here as well as information! Thank you all so much for sharing... I am new to this forum and will be checking back often... At the moment I am working on SEO for my own website and have started from the ground up. Lots of hard work... and I must agree... Google indexing can be confusing! Kathleen {closiTherapi}

closiTherapi ::: Vintage And Designer Clothing Boutique

[Patrician]

Hi Clint.

Links are fine as long as they are not affiliate links -

Originally Posted by Clint Butler

If you are still having this problem let me know I have a couple of free websites I use to get my sites indexed very quickly, I would post the links in the post but don't want to make a mod mad

If I am allowed to post links in here just let me know and I will give you what I have, I get a site indexed in a day using this method, and I get backlinks as a bonus, again they are FREE

[extremenetwork]

Submit your website sitemap to google webmasters, and get google crawled to you.

[JRoon]

Thanks for the awesome infos.

[Auggasouth]

I will be taking some the advice that was given Thanks guys! This great stuff

[UncleSam]

This forum is a wealth of information, you guys give excellent and sensible advice.

I wish I'd found this place before as all the information I need is here in one place instead of trawling to internet to find answers.

Best Regards

[Alex King]

I just made a script for faster grawling but i'm not able to post it yet as i'm < 15 posts. Damn it .

[deluxdon]

Today meta tags are useless more or less for google.


Get quality content, backlink and submit your site to google.

[benrobertsjr]

Once more for any skeptics... most of the posts in this forum are on target. Google searches this forum often so if you include a link to your site here Google should index your site fairly quickly. If you set up Webmaster tools and submit your sitemap as others suggest you can also use the Webmaster tools to check for links to your site and you may soon see this warriorforum.com url. Thanks again for the accurate intel. Ben Roberts Jr

[UncleSam]

Originally Posted by benrobertsjr

Google searches this forum often so if you include a link to your site here Google should index your site fairly quickly.

It does work, made my first post the other day and Google indexed my site not long after

[TLSClickWorks]

Really good info here, Thanks!

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