Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
It's been quite some time now and Google is yet to put me in their index. They've indexed pages that are linking to me, and my sitemaps page shows they've crawled my site. Am I locked out because they saw adsense on their first visit? If so, will temporarily removing the adsense blocks for a week or so likely fix this?
MSN and Yahoo picked me up a long time ago. Seems odd that google wouldn't, since they have more to gain from my traffic than MSN or Y!.
In recent times, it seems to me that these filters interatct in a different manner than before. More new domains seem to be able to establish trust with Google, sooner than we saw a year or so back.
Still in general, it sounds like you could be in that post-launch period where Google watches and weighs various "signals" that surround a new domain -- not the least of which seems to be solid, independent inbound links, both to the domain root and to deeper pages. When those signals combine to match a certain degree of trust tht Google has set, then your pages begin to show in the search results.
You mentioned that you are using a CMS. Make sure that it does not put out many different urls that point to the same content - only one url offered to spiders for any "page". I'd suggest a serious and discriminating read of the current thread Duplicate Content: Get it right or perish [webmasterworld.com]
