Problem in getting indexed in SEs

[nuttymarketer]

Dear Friends

My site is not getting index into Google. I am seeing almost none of traffic coming to my site from Any search eangine.

It is more than One year old and The Problem I see is that I have change the Hosting provider. It is to be noted that earlier I use to see good traffic from almost all search engine. But After changing the Hosting provider, I am in suip.

I submitted Google sitemap. But only home page is indexed. While it was already indexed even before submitting sitemap.

Can you help me in finding the problem and getting all of my site pages index into Google and Yahoo.

Nuttymarketer

[magnumonline]

Nutty Marketer

What other methods are you using to let the SE's know your site exists? Do you update your site with fresh original content very often?

You need to give the engines a reason to index your pages and usually that reason is because your site has something of value to offer the SE's visitors.

You may try writing some articles related to your sites content or having some writen for you by a ghostwriter. Submit these to the article directories and this can help your rankings significantly as other websites begin displaying your article with your link in the resource box.

There's a bunch of ways to get the engines to notice and index your site depending on your budget.

Paul

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[edited by: tedster at 3:13 am (utc) on May 29, 2006]

[caveman]

Hey nuttymarketer,

The problem is it can be hard to know cause and effect. For example, were you making significant changes to your site in the months before and/or after the move to a new host?

Being with the wrong host can cause issues on some fronts, but I think often hosts get blamed when in fact some other issue is the cause, and the timing of the move is just coincidental.

Some questions (forgive the basic ones but sometimes they need to be asked):

Do you have your own domain, or are you hosting your site on someone elses domain (e.g., a free server of some sort)?

Why did you change hosts?

Did you just change hosts, or also domain names?

Did the structure of the site, i.e., the url's change when you moved the site?

Since being at the new host have you noticed any accessibility issues with the site (down frequently)?

Are the SE's indexing all or most of your pages? (You can use Y Site Explorer and G's "site:" command to find out.

Did your site previously redirect all pages to one canonical set of pages, and is it still doing that, i.e., all non-www pages to their www counterparts? Some people forget to get this set up with a change of hosting environments.

Do you have a robots.txt file, and is it set up properly? Did it change during the move?

Does your 404 page work properly, i.e., does it return a 404 HTTP header?

Have other sites been copying your site's content/pages? If that started around the time of the move, it could cause problems over time, from that point on.

Do you own other sites at the same host?

What other kinds of sites reside at that host?

You might also find things to think about in this thread, about Dropped Sites [webmasterworld.com]