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I just found a referral to my site from Google. On probing for the search term, I found it to be <snip> . I didn't do the search today, so, I don't know why anyone will search for that term. I launched the site only on Oct. 6th.
But, my problem is this: When i search for the term <my site>, my site comes at the top. But, when I search for terms like "<my keywords>" or "<my other keywords>", then it is just NOT displaying! My site is well cached in google. And, there aren't many competitors to these search terms as such I guess.
Can someone please investigate the search terms and analyse my site and help me out? I would be very grateful.
Also, when I search for the term <my site> , I get more than 14 results, but when I search for link:<my site> I see no backlinks!
Is there something wrong? Maybe google hasn't "really" indexed my site? Or is this the final, and I will never be getting those search terms?
Thanks in advance for any inputs!
Stan.
[edited by: trillianjedi at 12:10 pm (utc) on Oct. 10, 2005]
[edit reason] Please see TOS #13 - thanks ;-) [/edit]
launched the site only on Oct. 6th.
You need some patience - google takes a little while to get around to indexing and listing your site properly.
In the interim period keep building content pages and keep getting inbound links.
Eventually, google will catch up with you.
There is nothing wrong - this is all quite normal.
TJ
google takes a little while to get around to indexing and listing your site properly.
Quite an understatement
I am indexed already in google but I have never submitted. I do realize they picked me up from other inbound links to my site.
Here is my question. Would it be a good or bad idea to submit my pages to google officially through google submit?
I asked this question because I recently lost a lot of pages on google and I don't know why. I am currently sandboxed, my site is about 6 months old since launch date.
I was talking to an SEO guy that said when ever he makes changes to a page he goes to google and submits that url so google picks up the changes quiker than waiting for the crawl.
He claims for example if he makes a change to the homepage or any internal pages he resubmits to google over and over every time he makes a change.
I asked him way he does it, his reply was that it assures him that those changes get indexed quickly and properly.
Has anybody heard of this? Does it really work?
Following the theory that it can't hurt to submit a URL, I do so when it seems appropriate, but I hedge my bets. If its a new site, I post a prominent link somewhere and submit the URL. I've helped several sites with the Google www-canonicalization issue by first setting up the redirects and then submitting the URL and it feels like that's helped speed things along, but I have no way of knowing for sure. If you have pages that aren't getting indexed properly or are not indexed at all, submitting them may well help and can't possibly hurt, so I'd say go ahead!
Google has a thing called SiteMaps. This will likely help you. I wouldn't bother submitted the pages since G says to only support the homepage. (you could annoy them)
Search on G for sitemaps... signup and try to follow the instructions :)
It helped my site a lot.
For banned sites, is it ever recommended to call Google about a reinclusion request? They do have a phone number.
*I* wouldn't call them ... there is a recommended procedure for reinclusion. A search for same will yield instructions that were originally published by Cutts on his blog ... and republished (without penalty ;0 ) elsewhere, including this forum, I believe.
Cheers, MJ
Somebody in a different forum pointed out to me some problems I was unaware of so I fixed them and notified google of it via original case number. I had an outdated google sitemap full of dead links, duplicate and redundant links, and some duplicate affiliate content on a couple pages.
I see Google has retained an old outdated version of my homepage in their cache.
Fred
What are the criteria?
Cause I went ahead and submitted to lots of FFA links pages :(
Just like that *boom* completely off the index. No listing, no links, PR-whitebar, plenty of references to me in the index using 'allinurl' or my name, but my actual site has completely disappeared into the ether.
Sent emails to G, no reply.
I know everyone always says "I don't know why this happened, waaaah!", but seriously, I've worked very hard for the last 4 years to make it a squeaky clean whitehat authority site that kisses Googletoes. There's zero reason to have banned me, and up until a few days ago, they loved me just fine.
