Problem with Google bot

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Problem with Google bot

Only google seems to be the problem

jimberan

2:10 am on Jun 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

Hi all,

I am a total newby so help would be much appreciated.

My website isnt open for business yet but is finished. Some search engines somehow picked it up. Google bot seems to come everyday but only hit one or two pages. Askjeeves on the otherhand was able to crawl all my site it seems. So google comes each day but doesnt go deep. Anyone have any ideas?

6 different robots* Hits Bandwidth Last visit
AskJeeves 557 15.69 MB 22 Jun 2005 - 13:57
LinkWalker 250 7.10 MB 17 Jun 2005 - 16:46
Googlebot 61 1.72 MB 23 Jun 2005 - 04:50
Inktomi Slurp 4 95.28 KB 17 Jun 2005 - 00:53
Unknown robot (identified by 'crawl') 2 63.72 KB 17 Jun 2005 - 18:33
MSNBot 1 31.93 KB 19 Jun 2005 - 11:52

Stefan

2:23 am on Jun 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

Give it some time, and in the interim do the regular SEO stuff like trying to get incoming links from pertinent, established, quality, high-PR sites. And add content, and then more content, on new pages that have a reason for existing in the first place. And then write some more content.

jimberan

2:30 am on Jun 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

Its an online travel website. So more pages are being added my data entry team complete more destinations and hotels. Am i correct to say that if AskJeeves had no problem crawling my site on the first go then google should also be able to do that and will?

ckarg

10:29 am on Jun 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

What you CAN do is 'open the door' to your site for Google. But you can't force GoogleBot to enter - you have to tempt it. Making your site more attractive to human visitors (e.g. by adding good content) is one of the best ways to make your site more attractive to GoogleBot.

knippysing

4:38 pm on Jun 29, 2005 (gmt 0)

Also, if you have images that are connecting your pages together with hyperlinks, try adding text links as well. Googlebots LOVE text links because they can easily hop from one page to the next. Also, make sure all of the pages you want indexed have links to all of the other pages. It's a good rule of thumb that if it's easy for a person to navigate your site, it will be easy for googlebots. That's what the engineers of Google intend!

Hope it helps.