Posted by kuhrin on April 1, 2008 at 7:03pm
Hello all,
I can't figure out why Google won't index my site. I'm super frustrated! Is someone willing to talk me through this?
<3,
Corinne
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Corinne - there are many things to consider...
1.) What is your website domain?
2.) How old is it? (how long have you had content on it?
3.) Do you have any links pointing to it? If so which ones?
4.) What is the title of your Web Page?
5.) Have you sent Google your XML sitemap?
6.) Are you positive Google has not already indexed your site? You can check by using this search string in Google Search
- site:yourDomainNameHere.com yourDomainNameHere.com (please remember the space between the domains)
7.) If it is missing many pages on your site - Is it listed in the the Google Sandbox? There are some great tools here: http://oyoy.eu/google/supplemental/
8.) Is there anything obvious that you can think of?
ok, here we go! 1)
ok, here we go!
1) www.corinneball.com
2) there's been content for about a month now.
3) not so much. a few community blogs, my social networking profiles... certainly nothing very prominent
4) Corinne Ball dot com is the current title
5) yep.
6) yep. i've also checked it with the webmaster tools that google provides. it comes up with some errors, but i don't think they should actually hinder indexing (one page that was a draft wasn't crawlable, and robots.txt blocks comment pages from being indexed).
7) i will check that!
8) no... i've gone through what i thought were basic steps. what's driving me crazy is that other websites i've set up were automatically indexed, including the other drupal site i built.
i'm going to go check out the sandbox. maybe the answer lives there!
Hello, Corinne, I've heard
Hello, Corinne,
I've heard that Google's been trying to get out of the information harvesting business -- maybe this is part of that larger effort :)
Okay, all kidding aside:
How long has the site been live?
Are there any access controls on your site that would limit the ability for anonymous users to see content?
Do you have a robots.txt file that instructs google to not spider your site?
Post back with some details on your config --
Cheers,
Bill
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i do have a robots.txt file,
i do have a robots.txt file, but i didn't change it from the default installed with drupal. do you think that could be it, anyhow?
anyhow, the site has been live for about a month (www.corinneball.com), and i'm fairly certain there's nothing that anon users can't see. but i'm only 99% certain, so i'll go back and check.
thanks!
Your Site Is Infected By The Curse Of Yahoo! (serious)
Just kidding - Happy April Fools :) We still love you even though Google is being slow.
Truth is - You really have nothing to worry about...
If your goal is to be indexed - for the sake of indexing - it will come around within 3 months (from past experience) - as long as the domain was never blacklisted. In the past, I purchased a domain that had been expired. The domain had some negative mojo and never regained a Google cache. No big deal - I just purchased a new domain and started fresh. It was a lot easier to get good cred from a new site anyway. I guess I could have also emailed Google.
I doubt this is the same scenario as yours, but I thought I share with the group my experience with stuff like this.
If your goal is the be ranked - and Google is your primary target - then start playing hardball -
All in all - I would just have patience - have fun - and enjoy the blog...
You did do the obvious, right?
You have tried http://www.google.com/addurl/ , right? I couldn't tell for sure from this thread.