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A site being indexed and a site showing up in SERP's are very different things.
Google has over 3 billion pages indexed, but over 99.9% of them never show up in the SERPs for common search terms.
sure, i'll will go into it a bit further:
- on google.com, I would usually search for the phrase: Fender Mustang. My site would come up listed as #2. The title of my site is Fender Mustang Web.
- the site is listed at google when i search for "Fender Mustang Web" in quotes. But when I browse to the site from the search results, for every single page on the website i get the page rank "Current Page is not ranked by google". Previously the home page was PR5, and each page below was PR4, PR3 etc.
- when i search for backward links on my url I get the error: Your search - link: [smallclone.com...] - did not match any documents. Previousy there would be 2 or 3 pages of backwards links.
- it appears googlebot did hit my site maybe this info can help:
History for: Googlebot/2.1 ( [googlebot.com...]
Tue Nov 5th, 2002 0
Mon Nov 4th, 2002 21
Sun Nov 3rd, 2002 1
Sat Nov 2nd, 2002 0
Fri Nov 1st, 2002 0
History for: Googlebot-image/1.0 ( [googlebot.com...]
Fri Jan 3rd, 2003 0
Thu Jan 2nd, 2003 25
Wed Jan 1st, 2003 96
Tue Dec 31st, 2002 196
Mon Dec 30th, 2002 192
Sun Dec 29th, 2002 11
Sat Dec 28th, 2002 73
Fri Dec 27th, 2002 6
Thu Dec 26th, 2002 1
Wed Dec 25th, 2002 0
Tue Dec 24th, 2002 0
I would be greatful to get some expertise here ;)
Assuming I found the right web site, it has some nice looking Guitar babes on the home page?, then the problem is probably due to the home page contents (without knowing what else you may have done link wise).
I suggest putting some plain text on that page, that Google can see and interpret. At a rough guess just the following will fix your problems
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>
<h1>Your keyword phrase</h1>
Great Guitar music from <your keyword phrase>
Keep in mind traffic is best generated from numerous phrases and therefore adding to the above with other appropriate sentances will help ;)
We understand that your site hasn't shown up in our search results even though you've submitted your URL to us. We'd like to explain why this may have happened and what it means.
Google finds sites through a process known as "crawling" the web. This involves robot software that follows hyperlinks from site to site. Google currently looks at more than two billion URLs during the crawl, and this process can take a while.
If you submit your URL to Google, we'll try to include you in our next crawl. If you've already submitted your URL, your site may well appear in the next update of the Google index, which will go live when the current crawl has been completed. However, if no other site links to yours, it may be difficult for our crawler to find you. Conversely, if many sites link to your page, there's an excellent chance we'll find you whether you submit your URL or not.
Sometimes websites are not reachable when we try to crawl them, despite multiple attempts on the part of our crawler. This is another possible explanation for a site's absence from the current index. If the site's unavailability was a transient problem, it's likely to show up in the subsequent index.
We realize this may be frustrating to you, especially if your site is relatively new. You may well be looking for ways to increase your site's visibility so other sites will link to yours. However, Google does not manipulate search results by hand or accept payment to change results ordering. We believe strongly in allowing the "democracy of the web" to determine the position of sites in our search results.
I'd recommend you do a little work on getting good links. There are a handful of them pointing to your site, but they tend to be low-PageRank pages themselves and on top of that they're primarily pages consisting of little but links (so the amount of PR that could be passed to you is very small).
While the answer you got from Google is just a "form letter," it makes the same point: good links are the way in. There are a lot of websites, and it's understandable that they don't get to every one every month but start by following the "best" (high PageRank) links... and may not get around to crawling weak (low PR) links.
Text content on your index page, as percentages suggests, is a good idea and necessary if you want to get good rankings but it isn't what's keeping you from getting crawled. If Google hasn't visited the site, they can't know what your page content is like!
I suggest putting some plain text on that page
I would go along with that, think I would look at lots more good text (You can drop it down the page if you want)
Its nothing to do with Google, but I would put that 200K image through Photoshop if I were you, and take it down considerably in file size. You probably have it on your own computers cache, and don't realise how long it takes to download
Unless all your inbound links dropped off the map (see if any of them still link to you and are still listed in Google, to check this), my guess is that your server may have been down when Googlebot came to visit about a month ago. If this is the case, all you have to do is wait, and you should show-up again next update. (Painful, I know, seems like the Looooooongest month of the year when your site has dropped-out!)
If your inbound links are no longer there (or the only sites that link to you are no longer listed in Google), then you need to look at getting some more inbound links from sites with decent PageRank (a good idea in any case), as if you have no Google-indexed inbound links, your site can drop-out of the index!
I can confirm that for the period my site was not listed on google, page hits dropped by 80%.
Could a mod please delete this thread as it is now included in the backward links to the site ;)
