Site Not Indexed After Three Months

[davidcorman]

A website that I promote has still not been indexed by Google or other major search engines after 3 months. The site was redesigned and a number of new pages were added as well. Pages that are indexed when searching site:example.com are only from the previous site. The site does not rank when searching www.example.com in Google. Many pages from the previous site were removed from Google's index but some remain. The site was first created in 2007 and was appearing for related search terms up until the redesign.

The site has recently been given a Google Page Rank of 2, I have submitted a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools (which has been downloaded), and Google Webmaster Tools claims that 9/12 of the URLs in the Sitemap have been indexed. The site has some incoming links as well. The Robots.txt file does not restrict anything and there are no crawl errors in Google Webmaster Tools

One note: the DNS had been (2 months ago) erroneously pointing only to the www version of the site and therefore when searching for the site in Google, all results that Google did show were resulting in a 404 error when clicking on them. This issue was fixed but it did not resolve the problem.

What could be the problem and what can I do to fix it!?

[edited by: tedster at 4:58 pm (utc) on Jan. 25, 2010]
[edit reason] sw2itch to example.com - it cannot be owned [/edit]

[Seb7]

Sounds like you resolved the issue, now waiting for Google.

[edited by: tedster at 6:55 pm (utc) on Jan. 25, 2010]

[rowtc2]

I have 2 websites with consistent amount of pages, launched few months ago.

In .com appears a very small amount (5%) of pages indexed.

In .ru , .fr and international TLDs are all pages indexed at command site:www.example.com

I was thinking is the Caffeine, but still no change on .com from few weeks.

davidcorman,check on international TLDs to see what is going there.Is a little weird.

Other people have this issue? Any suggestions?

[Seb7]

Suggestions?

I did a Google reinclusion request. (available via the tools). Though technically I didnt need a reinclusion, my SERPs was really bad, no indication as to why, so I thought a manual look couldn’t make things any worse than it was already, and it might highlight to someone of a problem to be fixed. The website then did suddenly have a ranking of 2 (which I never expected so early) and the SERPs resolved about week after that. Sooo, the reinclusion might have contributed to this.

Also, I very carefully went through Google guidelines as to make sure I was more than 100% compliant.

[jdMorgan]

The site was redesigned...

Did you change the URLs of the pages?

If so, did you 301-redirect all old URLs to their new direct replacements?

Are all obsolete incoming links 301-redirected to a replacement URL, and/or does your 404-Not Found error page contain resources to help the visitor find what he/she was looking for when clicking those obsolete inbound links?

Jim

[davidcorman]

The URLs did change and we made 301 redirects for all of them.