Submitting to Google: 3 months latter not 1 site properly indexed

http://www.example.com/index.htm or http://www.example.com/

[vite_rts]

Hi All

So far I am having a horrid time with google, I seem to have a multitude of issues

I discovered that I also had canonical issues on most websites.

Now, Ive been wondering, why would the google cache command distinguish between

http://www.example.com/index.htm

and

http://www.example.com/

Any time i submit to search engines, I only submit the general site url
http://www.example.com/

without specifying the filename,

any time I submit, i also get a blank white screen after pressing submit, is this the sign off things going wrong?

cheers

[tedster]

Those actually are two different urls -- and even if they resolve to the same content on your domain, technically they can resolve to different content.

Most likely there are links on your domain that point to index.htm. Make sure all your "Home" links point to http://www.example.com/ -- this action alone usually fixes an issue such as you've described, but it does take some time.

Search engines today mostly spider based on links, not submissions. I have not submitted an address to any search engine since about 2002, and all the sites I work with are spidered regularly.