not getting indexed at all by google

by havefunandlive

Posted: 15 years ago 15 replies

I've been google searching all night, but I can't seem to find the answer to this.

I'm not sure if I'm expecting any results too soon.

Maybe backlinking to your own site doesn't make google index your website really fast like they did my articles on articles directories, but...

I've made a webmaster account on google and every day I come back to it expecting some sort of result or update, but I'm still not indexed by google, and I don't appear in any way shape or form in google's searches.

The website's been backlinked for a while now and google visits my website every day, but every time I look on my webmaster account, the "indexed urls" number by my approved sitemap is always 0 (or --).

The reason why I'm concerned is because when I wrote a series of articles and uploaded them on squidoo and goarticles, they appeared in their searches on the first night of backlinking, but this site hasn't had any progress at all in the last few days.

Here's a list of things I've done:

1. Resubmitted sitemap

2. Checked sitemap for bad links.

3. Set a preferred domain (non-www)

4. searched for my site using the site: feature on google. I found all of my
backlinked articles on my website this way, yet...

5. Did keyword searches to see if I appear yet (I did not. I've researched the other results and they have less backlinks than I do.)

6. changed my site's layout

7. registered on other webmater accounts (bing, yahoo etc...)

8. deleted robots.txt (it was the one that google gave me. it was supposed to allow everything

9. pinged my website. no results there.

10. Checked webmaster tools errors. They all say "--" or in plain english say it did not detect any errors.

11. Checked logs to see if googlebot visited. (it did)

I thought about submitting a reconsideration report, but since google's not reporting any errors, I'm not sure if that's even necessary.

What could be the problem?

#google #indexed

maestro2010 15 years ago

If you have resubmitted your website into G recently then it will take time to get your website index. But dont submit your website sitemap again and again.
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UBotBuddy 15 years ago

I Agree. Time is now needed. I have about three new sites that have been waiting for two months now. Just keep adding content. Google will come.
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- happyguy 15 years ago
  
  i hope your site is not MFA. some of the sites i got from a membership site could not be indexed by google after a year. am considering pulling them down now. use copyscape to knwo if you have unqieu contents on your site. if you do and you have done all the above, i suggest you wait. keep adding links. you will be indexed soon.
  
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John Romaine 15 years ago

Did you go to ...

www.google.com/addurl ???

If you continually keep changing things up, youll be doing nothing but chasing your tail.

At a rough guess, Id say theres an issue with your robots.txt file OR you have nofollow set somewhere in your pages.
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- dburk 15 years ago
  
  Hi havefunandlive,
  
  If it's only been a few days then you may simply be a little too impatient. The Google webmaster Tools does not update in real-time. It can take up to 3 weeks to update.
  
  Have you checked to see if your home page is indexed? You do that by typing the site: prefix in Google with your domain name.
  
  Example: site:www.warriorforum.com
  
  Google usually indexes just the home page on a new site, then adds a few more pages the next day and gradually adds all the pages over time.
  
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routonc38 15 years ago

I have the same issue with an affiliate based site going to Amazon products. I'm thinking it may be the all the links to Amazon, so I'm going to make sure I have a good bit of content there as well instead of just the small blurbs there now. Otherwise, I don't know what more I can do besides wait. My other sites were indexed very quickly. It's just this one that's giving me issues. Is your site mostly affiliate links?
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havefunandlive 15 years ago

Google came and indexed me, which is good. I also recently get a visit from Whois and got an 89% SEO score. Also good.

Now I'm taking everyone's advice and finding other ways to pass the time while I wait.

Just one small thing, though.

I've been making backlinks from Paul Johnson's packets and some of my own research. It's been a week or two since I finished my first packet and some days since I've done the next packet.

I should have over 110 (high PR) backlinks by now, but backlinkwatch.com only detects one of them.

My targeted inner pages are also backlinked.

I can only find my site on google if I search for its name specifically (it appears in 5th place). The rest of the sites have around 14 backlinks on low PR sites, so I should be outranking them, but I'm not yet.

The strange thing is that when I did my first 50 site packet and backlinked to my articles on goarticles.com and squidoo for a different niche, they appeared to be crawled and indexed immediately and appeared for my keywords just fine.

Is it not the same for a newly created website, about 1 or 2 weeks old? Are the results not as instant?

How long should I wait for my backlinks to be crawled so I can appear in keyword SERPs?

I've already been waiting for a couple of days, but I just want to be completely sure there isn't anything wrong with my website.

Thanks.

EDIT: Could it possibly be because my site is a .info site? I read somewhere that it is just as valuable and easily rankable as a .com site for google, but could that be wrong?

If it is, I can easily do a 301 redirect to a .com site instead, I suppose.
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Natheen2000 15 years ago

For fast indexing your pages, submit your pages to Digg.com + mixx.com + do some blogging for your links, These will help you to get quick indexing
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- Silveda 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Natheen2000
  
  For fast indexing your pages, submit your pages to Digg.com + mixx.com + do some blogging for your links, These will help you to get quick indexing
  
  Sort of like Natheen says, focus on building a few links on reasonable sites and you will get indexed, sometimes it takes weeks though.
  
  Links and content, it will happen, provided you are not doing any questionable webmastering.
  
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  truepers 15 years ago
  
  Running into same delayed indexing issue. It seems patience is required. Continue to build content and backlinks. Persistence and consistency pay off in the long term.
  
  Askloz, thanks for the info. Wasn't familiar with these tips. Test all things - keep what is good.
  
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askloz

15 years ago

first off, don't submit your sitemap to google or any search engine for that matter, that's a newbies mistake, it makes matters worse, and delays your site from being indexed.

secondly, add a robots.txt file, any standard one will do.

third, add the robots meta tag to allow them in.
same with the index, follow attribute.

create a ror.xml file, which contains the pages links, in your header tag. go to rorlab dot come for info on how to place the header tag attribute. this will force search engines to read that file first before any pages.

just those alone will improve things.

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halfpoint

15 years ago

Originally Posted by askloz

first off, don't submit your sitemap to google or any search engine for that matter, that's a newbies mistake, it makes matters worse, and delays your site from being indexed.

I made 8 new websites in the last three weeks and submitted each site map to Google.

The only promotion I've done is putting each site through Bookmarking Demon, and all pages on all of the sites are indexed.

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Jenie0109 15 years ago

too much on page... stop redoing it...now you should concentrate on off page....
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- Joshua.E1 15 years ago
  
  Maybe you can try Pingler to alert the major search engines that your site is ready to be index.
  
  Provided that your site is not some gambling or porn sites.
  
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Hafsoh 15 years ago

Try to get some quality/trusted links for your site, that will accelerate the process of indexing your site.
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