Question about Google methods.

Ronald Regging · Oct 20, 2006

My site is getting crawled by Google daily, yet it doesn't appear to be indexing anything. Is this normal? Maybe it just takes time? I'm not sure. I just changed the www.domain.com redirect to domain.com to a 301 redirect, and added an empty robots.txt, because Google was reporting a 404 for it. Not sure if this will have any effects or not. Other search engines who have crawled the site have already indexed pages, so I wasn't sure if Google worked differently.

snowbird · Oct 27, 2006

It normally does take a little time after google crawls your site for it to appear in the search results. If you would like to learn more about how google crawls and indexes sites, you can visit google's webmaster help center. It provides a lot of benificial information you may be looking for. The address for it is http://www.google.com/support/webmasters . Also you might want to look into learning some about sitemaps.

Millar · Oct 27, 2006

I see Google visiting my site and then it might only update the cache up to 5 days after the visit so you may have to wait a while.

Ronald Regging · Oct 27, 2006

Well, it's been up for about 2 weeks now and Google has been visiting it daily, but I'm not seeing any indexation at all

I guess I just need to be patient, because other search engines are indexing it fine, so maybe Google will get around to it someday.

ashu@webnewtons · Oct 28, 2006

it takes time, i would suggest you keep updating your site regularly.
You have to be patient for a while.

Thanks

-Rasmus- · Oct 29, 2006

slipxaway said:
I just changed the www.domain.com redirect to domain.com to a 301 redirect

Any particular reason why you did that? Because I'm wondering myself whether to let Google index pages with or without www ...

rohoni · Nov 8, 2006

yes it takes time in google when copared with google
You are regularly and consistently adding new content to your site so that Google feel the need to come back and respider your site often. this is a simple trick to index your page in google.

Ronald Regging · Nov 9, 2006

Well, my site is a blog site, so there is consistent new content added on a daily basis by my users, and its been about a month now, with daily crawling, but still not indexed. I'm wondering if it has to do with the fact that user pages are on their own subdomain, much like Blogger does... I'm switching software though, so if this is the problem, it won't be that way much longer.

bananamonkey said:
Any particular reason why you did that? Because I'm wondering myself whether to let Google index pages with or without www ...

Not sure exactly. The program I'm using had the .htaccess file setup to redirect www.domain.com to domain.com. I'm not sure if it's a matter of the virtual subdomains it creates for each user account or if thats just the way they have it setup. I don't know enough to mess with it to redirect the other way, I barely could figure out how to change the redirect to 301

Keral_Patel · Nov 9, 2006

Well friend I have a site that has been crawled from last 2 years.

Since December 2004

It is getting crawled daily. But it is still not showing in the google's index.

And some sites they just hit the top in 15 days.

Ronald Regging · Nov 9, 2006

And your an SEO specialist... I guess its hopeless for me.

Keral_Patel · Nov 9, 2006

Yeah that is why I think I am SEO specialist.

I have been doing research on that site with other tactics. And that way I learnt that It is not a good technique. Bcoz reading and hearing is not everything. I had to fall into that ditch and test it out myself :D

smithkarl · Nov 9, 2006

Hi,

Google always takes more time to index sites... In order first it is MSN, or Yahoo then Google.

In your meta tags, important to place the following

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII">
<title>TITLE of site</title>
<meta name="KEYWORDS"
content="Site keys">
<meta name="DESCRIPTION"
content="Site descri">
<meta name="Robots" content="all, index, follow">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="30 days">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
</head>

The robots, all,index,follow and revist settings are important...

Karl

Sinfully Wicked · Nov 9, 2006

smithkarl said:
In order first it is MSN, or Yahoo then Google.

There the hell did you get that idea????

Sin

senaia · Nov 9, 2006

I would have to agree with him on that part Sinfully, MSN is really fast when it come's to indexing sites and then come's yahoo. Google is the last one to index you.

peet · Nov 9, 2006

Re redirecting www.domain.com to domain.com, I read about someone who had 2 different page ranks for these, because seo thought they were two domain. So merging them helped the page rank.

I have also seen cases where www.domain.com was full of adverts, whilst domain.com was a regular site. As if someone had hijacked it.

Keral_Patel · Nov 10, 2006

peet said:
Re redirecting www.domain.com to domain.com, I read about someone who had 2 different page ranks for these, because seo thought they were two domain. So merging them helped the page rank.

I have also seen cases where www.domain.com was full of adverts, whilst domain.com was a regular site. As if someone had hijacked it.

I have never experimented with this redirect thing. But well will test it out and start a new thread and we all will see what are the effects on the PR for the name with www and name without www

bentong · Nov 10, 2006

just wait and visit several webmaster forums, ask for a link exchange while putting a live link to your site.

This way, your site has a big possibility to be picked-up by SE bots since forum are frequently visited by robots..

smithkarl · Nov 10, 2006

Hi,

The best method to get your website indexed is to visit Yahoo Answers, then post some comments that make sense, and along that your name and your domain.

Do this for three days, post some 10 -15 questions a day and you get indexed in all search engines.

Using that method, I indexed 150 domains in about two weeks.

Yahoo answers has new content every day, or better still every few hours, so search engine spiders love that site. They visit there often, so they see, follow and index your sites as well.

Karl

SEO Montreal · Nov 12, 2006

bananamonkey said:
Any particular reason why you did that? Because I'm wondering myself whether to let Google index pages with or without www ...

It's called URL Canonicalization. That's fancy-talk for which url becomes the official version of your site. Otherwise you might compete against yourself in the SERPs.

Amnezia · Nov 13, 2006

smithkarl said:
Hi,

The best method to get your website indexed is to visit Yahoo Answers, then post some comments that make sense, and along that your name and your domain.

Do this for three days, post some 10 -15 questions a day and you get indexed in all search engines.

Using that method, I indexed 150 domains in about two weeks.

Yahoo answers has new content every day, or better still every few hours, so search engine spiders love that site. They visit there often, so they see, follow and index your sites as well.

Karl

yep thats a pretty good tip,

drop your link on an authority page that gets crawled alot

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