Site indexed in yahoo & msn, but not in google.

google not indexing site

[bruinbear714]

My site has been up for about 4-5 months now and has been indexed by yahoo & msn, but not google. A check for "site:www.mysite.com" shows nothing, nada, zilch. I participate in the adsense/adwords program - does that affect getting indexed into google?

[goodroi]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld bruinbear714!

Adwords/Adsense do not have a direct impact on getting you indexed. Generally speaking they are helpful in getting Google to find your site. Here are some quick tips.
-Make sure you have inbound links from sites that are already in the Google index.
-Check to see if you bought an expired domain
-Check your robots.txt file
-Check to see if you have a canonicalization issue
-Make sure you do not have duplicate content

good luck

[Shaundm]

Could be in the sandbox if its a newish site?

[MoveyourwebSEO]

To goodroi:

-Check to see if you have a canonicalization issue? What is a "canonicalization issue"?
Explain please, what you mean.

[goodroi]

Canonicalization deals with www.example.com and example.com being identified as a different sites. Redirects can help with this situation. There are alot of threads that discuss it. Here is one that GooglGuy commented in. [webmasterworld.com...]

[Precious pearls]

hello friends,
To get indexed in Google you have to have inbound links. Quality inbound links helps to get index fast.
Google checks for robots.txt file so go through it once because it may be the case that you have mentioned your homepage there.
Precious_Pearls

[PipSqueak]

I bought an expired domain name without knowing at first. What effect does it have on google?

[bostonseo]

I have 300+ pages indexed but I am not showing up in the Google search results. I am checking search phrases that are fairly competitive and one's that are not highly searched on. Many of these keyword phrases I have 1st page rankings on Yahoo and MSN but nowhere to be found in Google even though appropriate matching pages are in the Google Index.

Any advice?