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Google Not Indexing .PW Sites

by Jayem
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Hi, I built an information blog using .PW TLD domain. It has been 6+ months and I noticed that only 5 pages are indexed in Google however Bing & Yahoo indexed all pages.

I tried to ping the site so many times in the last 6 months but Google doesn't index all pages for some reasons.

What am I doing wrong here? Is it because .PW TLD domains are banned or blocked by Big G?

Please share your experience with .PW domains or any thoughts to resolve this issue.

Thanks for your help.
#google #indexing #pw domains #sites
  • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
    How can anyone check for SEO problems with your site without the URL?

    You could be accidentally blocking Google for example.

    David
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    • Profile picture of the author Jayem
      How could one block Google search engine alone from indexing? I believe it is more about the .PW TLD site. If you have .PW domain and have any indexing issues with Google?

      Thanks for your time.
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      • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
        Originally Posted by Jayem View Post

        How could one block Google search engine alone from indexing? I believe it is more about the .PW TLD site. If you have .PW domain and have any indexing issues with Google?

        Thanks for your time.
        robots.txt file contents.
        .htaccess file rules

        You can block Google only by mistake.

        Google doesn't downgrade any tld, you are wrong.

        Did you check the site: search? Are the pages you think aren't indexed, indexed?

        David
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        • Profile picture of the author Jayem
          Thanks Seo-Dave for a response. This is what I have in robots.txt for this site. I masked the domain as mysite.pw but the rest is what I have in that file.

          sitemap: http://www.mysite.pw/sitemap.xml

          # disallow all files in these directories
          User-agent: *
          Disallow: /cgi-bin/
          Disallow: /wp-admin/
          Disallow: /wp-includes/
          Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
          Disallow: /wp-content/cache/
          Disallow: /wp-content/themes/
          Disallow: /feed/
          Disallow: /trackback/
          Disallow: /comments/feed/
          Disallow: /author
          Disallow: /archives/
          Disallow: /wp-*

          User-agent: Mediapartners-Google*
          Allow: /

          User-agent: Googlebot-Image
          Allow: /images/
          Allow: /wp-content/uploads/

          User-agent: Adsbot-Google
          Allow: /

          User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
          Allow: /

          The .htaccess doesn't have anything fancy. This is what I have there. Pretty basic.



          # BEGIN WordPress
          <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
          RewriteEngine On
          RewriteBase /
          RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
          RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
          RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
          </IfModule>

          # END WordPress

          BTW site:sitename shows all URLs in Yahoo and Bing however Google shows only 5 URLs only.
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        • Profile picture of the author paulgl
          [QUOTE=SEO-Dave;9640804
          Google doesn't downgrade any tld, you are wrong.

          [/QUOTE]

          Wrong. Google does just that.

          Paul
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          If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    The most likely reason is Google just doesn't feel your content is worth indexing.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Having

    Disallow: /wp-*

    is not a good idea unless you've changed the WordPress defaults.

    This will block images and other types of media you use on your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author naredwrpes
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    • Profile picture of the author Jayem
      I highly doubt quality is the issue here. In other TLD domains (such as .COM/.NET/.ORG/.TV, etc), by creating a post with just 1 image, it indexed perfectly and quickly too. The contents in my .PW domain is very high quality (600+ words) and good researched articles.

      Upon Googling, I see that .PW domain is being considered as spammy TLD because it was abused by someone using this TLD. Here is one thread I found having the same issue as mine.

      .pw TLD's Not Being Indexed ? - Main Backlinks/SEO Discussion - Traffic Planet

      Here's another post talking about Google downgrading or ignoring .PW domain.

      Directi fighting “massive” .pw spam outbreak | DomainIncite - Domain Name News & Opinion

      Has anyone had any issues with your .PW domains? Did you opt-out of that TLD or have success with this TLD and got some traffic from Google?

      Thanks again for all replies.
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      • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
        Originally Posted by Jayem View Post

        I highly doubt quality is the issue here. In other TLD domains (such as .COM/.NET/.ORG/.TV, etc), by creating a post with just 1 image, it indexed perfectly and quickly too. The contents in my .PW domain is very high quality (600+ words) and good researched articles.

        Upon Googling, I see that .PW domain is being considered as spammy TLD because it was abused by someone using this TLD. Here is one thread I found having the same issue as mine.

        .pw TLD's Not Being Indexed ? - Main Backlinks/SEO Discussion - Traffic Planet

        Here's another post talking about Google downgrading or ignoring .PW domain.

        Directi fighting "massive" .pw spam outbreak | DomainIncite - Domain Name News & Opinion

        Has anyone had any issues with your .PW domains? Did you opt-out of that TLD or have success with this TLD and got some traffic from Google?

        Thanks again for all replies.
        And now others will find this thread about the tld, doesn't make it true.

        We've had this debate over the .info domains for years, Google does not downgrade any TLD's because of the tld. It's something else.

        Without the URL can't help further.

        Good luck.

        David
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        • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
          Originally Posted by SEO-Dave View Post

          We've had this debate over the .info domains for years, Google does not downgrade any TLD's because of the tld. It's something else.
          That is not entirely true. John Mueller recently danced around this issue a little bit on one of those live chats he does.

          What he basically hinted at was that Google is giving a negative factor to some of all these new TLDs popping up everywhere... .guru, .cheap, .newyorkcity, .expert, etc.

          I don't know if it is true or not, but I certainly have not seen any of these TLDs popping up in any SERPs.

          In other search engines, they are all over the place.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by Jayem View Post

    Hi, I built an information blog using .PW TLD domain. It has been 6+ months and I noticed that only 5 pages are indexed in Google however Bing & Yahoo indexed all pages.

    I tried to ping the site so many times in the last 6 months but Google doesn't index all pages for some reasons.

    What am I doing wrong here? Is it because .PW TLD domains are banned or blocked by Big G?

    Please share your experience with .PW domains or any thoughts to resolve this issue.

    Thanks for your help.
    Look at your webpage source code, are you blocking Google at page level with noindex tags? I've seen it happen a lot with other WF forum members sites, they try to index pages they're blocking (noindex) from Google.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hemanth Malli
    Hi,

    You need to create content with more effective and attractive with that you can get better result.
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  • Profile picture of the author watkip
    Just to let you know, visit Google's crawling, indexing, ranking forums. Or just Google about this matter.

    You are not the only one, several people experience this. I have 3 out of 12 websites not ranking for a single keyword. All unique, unstuffed, 2k + reviews, written by legit authors, pretty pricey.

    There must be a new or emphasised parameter that triggers no ranking for new sites. Soon or later someone will find out!
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by watkip View Post

      I have 3 out of 12 websites not ranking for a single keyword. All unique, unstuffed, 2k + reviews, written by legit authors, pretty pricey.
      Sounds real legit.

      Do you know what a legit review is?

      Not that it matters for indexing or ranking pages in Google SERPs.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO Power
    Fetch the pages that haven't been indexed using the 'fetch as Google' tool in your webmaster tools account. If the pages are fetched successfully, build some links to them and they'll get indexed.
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    ONE HOUR INDEXING - STOP WASTING MONEY ON LINKS GOOGLE NEVER FINDS
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by SEO Power View Post

      Fetch the pages that haven't been indexed using the 'fetch as Google' tool in your webmaster tools account. If the pages are fetched successfully, build some links to them and they'll get indexed.
      Google Fetch will already index a page on it's own.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jayem
    OK - As suggested, I resubmitted the unindexed URLs from Google Webmasters tool's Fetch as Google option. The interesting thing is that Yahoo & Bing indexed all pages includes tags & category links a long time ago but Google only indexed pages (Home,About, Contact Us, etc) and 1 post only but the rest of the posts are still unindexed even after 6 months.

    Also I just installed StatPress plugin which would report all spider activities and will update this thread in a day or two.

    Thanks for all replies.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jayem
    Success!!

    SEO Power suggestion of using Webmaster tools Fetch as Google, all my posts are indexed now in Google. I can't believe that it took just 10 mins to do it and Google didn't care to look at for the last 6 months though I pinged several times.

    Hope this will help someone in the future with the similar problem.

    Thanks for all the help.
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  • Profile picture of the author jrod11
    What theme are you using? I once used a theme on wordpress that for some crazy reason was blocking Google. My robots file was fine, but for some insane reason it couldn't access the site. Even webmaster tools was showing problems. I switched the theme and all was fine.
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