Google Listing

Google visiting daily but not listed

[NYColt]

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for allowing me to post to your forum.

I am impressed with its organization, vast subject selection and thorough informed answers of the users and moderators. Not kissing up, just fact.

I have a couple of questions pertaining to the activities of the Google bot on my website I would like to throw out.

After 2 months of visiting my client site only 4 or 5 times a month, google is now visiting daily and spending a considerable amount of time there, sometimes over 4 hours.

However the site still is not listed when a google search of myclientsite.com is done. BUT when a search on many of the keywords located on the index page are done the desired results appear and have been satisfactory.

Question (1) Is this activity an indication that we are getting closer to getting listed?

Question (2) When the satisfactory results occur they are only from the index page. NONE of the pages from the lower directories appear. Is this typical until a site gets listed or is it an indication that there may be a problem?

Question (3) Many of the sub-directories such as www.myclientsite.com/widgets/index.html are also sub domains widgets.myclientsite.com and are listed in .htaccess. Would the sub domain issue or the .htaccess list (which only contains the list of sub domains nothing else. This required by the webhost to direct browsers to the sub domain) affect the crawl/indexing of these directories?

Thank you in advance for any insight you may be able to provide.

NYColt

[simonuk]

Hi NYColt, welcome to the forum.

1. Yes. It can take a long time to get a site listed when all you've done is manually submit to google. A good indication of you getting close is when your site is also listed on www2.google.com and www3.google.com
Once it's on them you should be indexed on the main database on the next major update.

2. Once your main page is indexed it will then start deep crawling the remaining page. This can be a very fast process. The fastest it's add all my pages is 2 days and the longest 3 weeks.

3. Haven't a clue what you were trying to say here :)

Simon.

[gibson335]

Hello NYColt. I agree with simonuk that it takes a while to be listed. Just remember, that just because you have been spidered doesn't necessarily mean you will be listed immediately. Google's algo changes ("the dance", "florida ") and so you never know what to expect. I have found that just keeping your pages clean, good content (what I call add copy) and well worded to the subject or product (title, tags) works quite well. Keep it simple seems to work for me.

Thanks
gibson335