First of all, due to my site being an auction site, the content of many of my pages changes daily. I went live about two weeks ago and submitted my site to Google then.
My server log shows that Googlebot has been to my site several times in the last three or four weeks, (even before I went live. I had test content on the site back in July.)
When I view my Webmaster Tools Index Stats, (Indexed Pages,) it list old test pages from well over a month ago and none of the new ones from this month. Also my Webmaster dashboard page says that my home page was last crawled on July 23, 2007. (Is my server log lying to me?)
Furthermore, when I try to view my Crawl Stats, Query Stats, Page Analysis, and such it just says No Data Available on all pages.
What gives here? How long does it take for Googlebot to update what it has found?
If you want Google to get fresh information on your site you'll need to get links pointing to your auction site. Submitting to Google is fine, but getting some links from pages Google has in its index and trusts will solve all your problems.
How long does it take to update? Depends how important your site is (get more links), how often content changes, and 300 other variables that I can only guess at.
My new sites with little links take forever to update, but my old and wrinkly sites with tons of link love sometimes get updated next day.
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If you want Google to get fresh information on your site you'll need to get links pointing to your auction site. Submitting to Google is fine, but getting some links from pages Google has in its index and trusts will solve all your problems.
How long does it take to update? Depends how important your site is (get more links), how often content changes, and 300 other variables that I can only guess at.
My new sites with little links take forever to update, but my old and wrinkly sites with tons of link love sometimes get updated next day.
Well, I have submitted it to about 50 directories, a few blogs, and maybe two dozen or so other big search engines so far. I have exchanged links with a handful of friends. I am paying for about 200 clicks a day from Enhanced Interactive, (and getting them.) I have purchased 225,000 linked impressions from Pro Sound Web. And if you count forum signature links as inbound, then I have another 700 or so out there. And I have plans for lots more in the near future.
Well, I have submitted it to about 50 directories, a few blogs, and maybe two dozen or so other big search engines so far. I have exchanged links with a handful of friends. I am paying for about 200 clicks a day from Enhanced Interactive, (and getting them.) I have purchased 225,000 linked impressions from Pro Sound Web. And if you count forum signature links as inbound, then I have another 700 or so out there. And I have plans for lots more in the near future.
Is that enough yet for Google to notice?
What's the URL?
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The quickest way to get a website indexed in Google is by mentioning the url on a blog. You should also submit a Sitemap to Google. This will tell it exactly where to go. Make sure your robots.txt file isn't excluding Googlebot in any way and wait. Also, start mentioning your site in sigs on forums that you post to. That should do it.
I have uplaoded a sitemap about a week ago. Googlebot has crawled my site everyday since that. It just is not updating anything in my webmaster tools or when I index the site.
The quickest way to get a website indexed in Google is by mentioning the url on a blog. You should also submit a Sitemap to Google. This will tell it exactly where to go. Make sure your robots.txt file isn't excluding Googlebot in any way and wait. Also, start mentioning your site in sigs on forums that you post to. That should do it.
It is in a few blogs, xml sitemap is uploaded. I don't have a robots.txt file on the site. And yes, I have over 700 forum signature links out there already.
Someone told me that it can take 6 to 9 months for Google to start listing your site in any searches. Wow, who did I piss off?
It is in a few blogs, xml sitemap is uploaded. I don't have a robots.txt file on the site. And yes, I have over 700 forum signature links out there already.
Someone told me that it can take 6 to 9 months for Google to start listing your site in any searches. Wow, who did I piss off?
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Proper SEO is the best way to rank in SEs within a few months you can rank well... Just do link building by quality IBLs...'coz backlinks is power...
Update your contents and make it good and quality contents.
Proper SEO is the best way to rank in SEs within a few months you can rank well... Just do link building by quality IBLs...'coz backlinks is power...
Update your contents and make it good and quality contents.
I think 6 to 9 months that's a long way to go...
Thank you. Yes, I am faithfully working on IBL's.
I don't have a lot of control over my content. Mine is a public (niche) auction site. So I guess the content is primarily driven by the users. I mean, I can delete any offensive or inappropriate content, but the only content I actually write is a handful of "site news" posts and maybe the help files.
Maybe for some reason the Google algorithm just doesn't rate it. I don't know, there's not really much 'content' on the site. That's not a criticism, it's just not that type of site. How do other auction sites do?
Maybe for some reason the Google algorithm just doesn't rate it. I don't know, there's not really much 'content' on the site. That's not a criticism, it's just not that type of site. How do other auction sites do?
Well, I suppose they [the other auction sites] rely heavily on keywords in their Title tag to get good position. At least that is what I am observing because the ones that rank top-most have the most descriptive title lines.
A week or two ago, I changed my title tags to be more descriptive too. Since my site gets crawled almost everyday, I figured I should start seeing the change by now. But, I am not. It is still showing me expired pages from over a month ago.
I don't know. I couldn't figure out how to change my domain to point to the install folder. I can't even remember where I got this advice from, but it works.
content is key, built a site for a client two weeks ago, fresh content, he wanted it indexed and in serps by today because a nationwide tv show was covering the product. Just this afternoon it showed up #5 on google for his keywords. (cutting it close but accomplished goal using techniques mentioned in this forum, thanks V7N) built another site months ago, still has poor rankings because of duplicate content.
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