URL in Google, but not description.

[quinnurkey]

Hello everyone, my website is listed in google (only web I search "<snip>"). However, it is just a blank URL with no decription or anything. Does this mean that I am listed or not?

Thank you in advance for any help.

P.S. This is what I see in Google:

<snip>

P.S.S. Sorry if this has already come up.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 11:55 am (utc) on Jan. 24, 2006]
[edit reason] please no urls. [/edit]

[Brett_Tabke]

First, welcome to webmasterworld. Apologies for the edit, but per the tos and posting guidelines, we avoid urls in posts here to thwart the ever present spamming.

Your domain is not fully indexed just yet. Google has discovered the url, but not indexed it. Just give it 30-45 more days and your site will show up completely in the G index.

[quinnurkey]

Thanks for the warm welcome! Anyways, it makes me happy that the problem doesn't have to be solved by redoing my whole site, but only by waiting.

P.S. I will make sure not to post the URL of my site anymore.

[jcmoon]

Similarly, I have one "level 3" page that fully appears in Google (Title, description, URL, size, similar link, cache, etc) but one "level 4" page that only shows the URL in the SERPs.

My assumption is that G indexed, crawled, and analyzed the level 3 page, and on that page it found the URL of the level 4 page - which it indexes - but it didn't crawl or analyze that.

Happily this level 4 page still appears in SERPs, even though it's only a single URL and no info. Therefore, I'd say Brett is more than on to something when he believes that keywords in the path & filename count for something (more detail here [webmasterworld.com]), though of course I'm sure other factors are at work as well (factors in the linking page, in the domain name, etc).

Edit: I'd agree that in the case of a new website, time is the main issue. As more time goes by, your likelihood for more rankings increases. Of course other things are at work, too. In my own case, though, I believe the issue is more of the number of URLs we have listed, and the number of URLs within any given page (i.e. G will only crawl a set number of URLs in the content of a page, ignoring the navigation ... Matt Cutts denied there was a constant number when he spoke at the last PubCon).

[tedster]

There have been many similar reports this month while Google is working with their "Big Daddy" data. There's been an overall increase in pages are url-only now but have been fully indexed for a long while -- and they don't seem to fit into the traditional reasons.

Of course, it's very important to look at all the basics and make sure enough time has gone by, etc, but something else has also been going on. Note that we have a current thread discussing the issue:

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[jcmoon]

Thanks for the heads-up. I'd wondered if this was unique to my sites.