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Since everyone thinks Google gives a lot of importance to anchor text, what happens if a site doesnt have any? Does that mean Google will not index the site at all? Two months ago, I bought a domain name and am in the process of building my web site. Meanwhile I have just had the name of my Company and a brief description of our business ( maybe a couple of lines) on it. So, there is just this single page existing for the last two months while I work on building the site.
How will Google find my site? Will it index my site only after I upload all the pages with all the content? Are single page or two page websites orphaned? If there are no links pointing to my site ,will Google not index it at all?
Thanks in Advance,
Matahari
It's not enough to just be indexed, a site has to rank so that it can be found to get traffic. One page can be indexed without there being more of a site up, but without any Page Rank it can't rank for anything. It isn't a matter of how many pages are up, because a single page can have PR. But it is necessary to have enough inbound links so the site will have some Page Rank.
If there are no links pointing to my site ,will Google not index it at all?
Google *may* index it through a submission, but it won't stay in the index very long.
You must have inbound links.
TJ
You can try it yourself:
- If you have access to another site that is allready indexed by google, put a link from this site to a page at your new site. Wait a few days - how long depends on how often your established site gets visited by googlebot. A short while after the linking page (established site) has been freshly indexed by google, you will find your second, new site listed at google.
- Now remove the link from your established site. After a few days (up to a few weeks) your new site will vanish again from the google index.
I did this with one of my recent projects. I unintentionally had a redirect for a couple of deep pages from a established site to a new site (in working progress). The redirect was active just for 20 minutes - enough to get the site *unintentionally* listed at google. A week or so after dropping the errornous redirect, the new site was removed from the index. Not even one single listing. Then i finished the site and linked it from another related site to bring it back into google. There it is.
It's simple. If there's no link pointing to a page, google sees no reason to list it even if it knows that the page exist.
