Comments on: When and How Will Google Index My Website?

By: James Robert

James Robert — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 07:50:01 +0000

Also make your site relevant to the user’s search terms and thereby Google – get lots of back links and if you’re feeling behind the competition check them out. I use back link checker – just Google it. Scopes out where my competition is getting their back links and I have found it a good way to find relevent directories to sign up for – and thereby get links from.

Posting on blogs doesn’t hurt either 🙂

By: Lester

Lester — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:12:16 +0000

I am really new to this internet marketing game I have to say I really like this site and I am using it to try and get higher rankings with my word press blog right now it seems as though I can’t even get indexed hoping to get that moving with uh what do you call it link juice lol

thanks for everyones comments

By: David

David — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:47:28 +0000

Getting a good ranking on google takes along time. I know how easy it is to get discourages when huge websites or even incompetent sites rank better and easier than yours. Just keep adding a reasonable amount of backlinks everyday and make sure you add to the site everyday with new, interesting content.

goodluck

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:02:10 +0000

Thanks for your answers. I have been having the same questions recently as my blog was getting listed but some pages of my website were not. The information that I got from everyone really helped me to understand just exactly how search engine works.

Thanks again

Chris

By: Sean the Pay Raise Guy

Sean the Pay Raise Guy — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:05:58 +0000

@Jacklin – thanks, I may well do, that’s a very kind offer!

My website is about how to negotiate a salary increase, but it’s appearing very difficult to rank highly over some of the articles from “About” etc.

I’ve been working on backlinks and now have used a social bookmarking service to get me sorted, though that has only just finished so I’d imagine it will take google a few weeks to recognize the backlinks.

I have read that .gov and .edu backlinks are extremely valuable also but most seem to be nofollow so I’m not getting recognition from them.

Yahoo also seems to have about 90 backlinks recognized for me now, whereas google have none…..

By: Natasha Weston

Natasha Weston — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:44:34 +0000

I have been waiting 2 weeks for my meta description to be updated, today I have added 3 monre pages to my site and I am about to submit my first sitemap to google.

I am interested to know if Google will visit my site really fast as it’s my first site map submission?

This is a very interesting post and I am off to work on some more backlinks.

I did notice that no-one has mentions .edu backlinks as I was under the impression that Google likes these as they are from an authoritative domain extension. I have added about 50 in the past few weeks and I am hoping they have some impact too!

By: Rahul Malik

Rahul Malik — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:52:53 +0000

Thanks for the info.
My site was getting indexed within minutes after i had made a post, but for a week my server was down and i was not in town. when i came back, and started my site again. the google just takes days to index any new posts and i have lost all my traffic.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 21:23:18 +0000

I got index in google in 1 week after i added sitemap & robot txt, but how i am suppose to know on which page my website is showing in search result on my keyword? any suggestion?

By: SFIhomebizz

SFIhomebizz — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:04:30 +0000

I am using google webmaster tools, sitemap.xml, bookmarked on social web sites but I found that my sitemap.xml is not listing all blog posts hence not getting indexed in google too

By: Becky

Becky — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:56:24 +0000

Help, I launched my new site and submitted it to google. Its in wordpress and I have used the settings to let everyone see it. For some reason google wont index it, am I doing something wrong?

By: Jacklin Octave

Jacklin Octave — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 05:38:07 +0000

Hey Sean,

If you want to get in touch with me, please contact me on facebook buddy.

Just make a search for “Jacklin Octave”

It’s easy to understand social bookmarking sites.

@Mike, you don’t have to pay for indexing tho. Just let google and other search engines do it for you, but you have to register in their webmaster tools.

Please, free to contact the owner of that blog, or should me an email for more details.

Take care!

Jack

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:33:58 +0000

Interesting read – can anyone give me some more insight into social bookmarking sites? I’ve heard delicious and digg mentioned in posts but I’m not aware of how they work or why I would use them.

Thanks in advance,

By: Mike Desilva

Mike Desilva — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:00:44 +0000

You have to watch out for companies that will overcharge your for “indexing service”. Some companies will take advantage of consumers/businesses and charge up to $300 dollars for this service.

starcomsystems.net is a prime example.

By: Jacklin

Jacklin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:59:29 +0000

There are a plethora of ways to get indexed. You can actually use social bookmarking sites, google webmaster tools, or the quickest way is to submit your website to all the ping sites.

Think about it, every time you make a change or a post, just ping it and you will see how gradually your traffic grows.

And the secret is by doing what i’m doing right now….LOL

Find out!!!

Take care

Jacklin

By: InkRaider

InkRaider — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:36:06 +0000

Very nice blog.

I am also optimizing a site. I use ezinearticles, digg, mixx, forums, press releases, etc to bring my site up in search. My site is improving on daily bases.

I hope one day it gets on first page of the site.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:45:43 +0000

@Bryan, you are frustrated with just one web site. Imagine how frustrated the Google Bot can get, he has billions of site to crawl. He cannot run, so be patient.

By: Bryan Alvarez

Bryan Alvarez — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:14:34 +0000

In reply to Ed. thanks Ed, it really sounds frustrating though because now the WMT again shows no brandnew links for my site for 3 days. My blogs and directory submissions didnt give any favorable results and so were my blogs and forums participations. So these does not automatically give us links or google just missed those links during certain crawls? I want some clarifications regarding when a link will be found or listed in WM or in any link checker tools? thnks

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:17:27 +0000

There is really no fast way to do this. If you go too fast then Google will think you just bought all those links and might even ban your site. Slow organic link building is the best way to go.

By: Bryan Alvarez

Bryan Alvarez — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:14:05 +0000

Hello,

In Google’s point of view, which one it valued the most those links from directory listings, blogs, articles, or comments…Id try to do each of these but it seems directory listings works for me most of the time if i checked in webmastertools. I know making blogs/articles is a long process but im learning it now and hoping to post a better one someday. I just want to know what works the most so that i can concentrate on that to help boost my site’s ranking. My site is about a month old now but it’s still has “0” ranking and I don’t gaining enough links everyday, do you know some ways to gain links really fast? I mean in legal way possible because its bad to called spammers and it wont be good for our site. thanks

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:30:44 +0000

Definitely you need to wait. Google has to crawl billions of pages daily. Keep that in mind.

By: Bryan Alvarez

Bryan Alvarez — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:09:52 +0000

Ok thank you Ed…I will wait for Google to update the snapshots then. I just think it has something to do on how the webpage was designed or coded but according to you it was Google’s behavior on taking snapshots only sparingly..:D

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:06:44 +0000

It takes time for Google to do updates on an individual basis. It looks for links more often than it takes snapshots. So be patient and it will happen.

By: Bryan Alvarez

Bryan Alvarez — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 21:50:33 +0000

hey guys i really found this one disturbing. Google had crawled my site again just yesterday and took the snapshot on my current page. It managed to retain the cached version of the page that was indexed. But the problem is the image shown in the search results still the (Blank) one or the (“Preview Coming Soon”) that i stated on my previous post. I really dont know why they cant show me the correct image of the page in the search results. Can anyone explain this to me?…i need your patience guys…:(

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:33:44 +0000

Who is SEO Quake? What queries do you run once a day?
Thanks.

By: Buta

Buta — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:17:36 +0000

I usually use SEO Quake because when you do a site command of that website you can sort by PR. I also set my Google to 100 links per page. I also use livepr.info but you can only run queries once an hour 🙁

Hope this helps!
Charles

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:59:36 +0000

You can set the visit frequency of the Google Bot in your WM tools.

By: Bryan Alvarez

Bryan Alvarez — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:40:21 +0000

Yeah, i already submitted my site to Google using (webmaster tools). By the way do we have a tool that will monitor the Googlebot’s activity (e.g crawl/index schedules for our site) aside from WM tools?..thank you

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:33:14 +0000

Have you submitted your site to Google?

By: Bryan Alvarez

Bryan Alvarez — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:04:26 +0000

Google still did not revisit my site up to now. They were mentioning some techniques above which i already do to no avail. Is there really an effective way to let google revisit our site and re-indexed it?…sorry if this question was already answered on previous comments but i want to be more precise and brief this time…:(

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:11:34 +0000

You will have to wait for Google to re-visit the site in this case.

By: Bryan Alvarez

Bryan Alvarez — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:33:44 +0000

In reply to Ed.

Im also using the one without space, though im getting “0” results in it. Does this mean that google didn’t found my links at all or had my links became invalid?…when i perform (link:www.mysite.com) on google, ive got “0” links found..

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:09:59 +0000

The space is an extra character that is interpreted differently by browsers. I would use the one without the space to avoid confusion.

By: Bryan Alvarez

Bryan Alvarez — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:26:22 +0000

Wow good to hear that Ed 🙂 but the problem is google did not visited my site again until now. And also what is the difference between typing (link:mysite.com w/o space recommended by google) which does gave me “0” results and typing (link: mysite.com w/ space) which shows some of the links that ive already made. I have made a couple of backlinks already, does this means that the first command (w/o space) w/c is suggested by google is incorrect?

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:15:26 +0000

They should eventually. Google stores a page cache until it changes.

By: Bryan Alvarez

Bryan Alvarez — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 17:16:32 +0000

Thank you Ed for your question, you kinda remind me of my big mistake here. My site was indeed not ready yet when google managed to indexed it. When google tried to crawl my page it was still under maintenance, so that’s maybe the reason why the cached version always looked like what it is “Preview Coming Soon”..(I found this by performing cache:mysite.com). But my site was already go on live now, should the snapshots will change to the actual page?

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:31:51 +0000

Was the page ready when indexed by Google?

By: Bryan Alvarez

Bryan Alvarez — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 22:00:13 +0000

When my i check my indexed pages from google, it will return a snapshots showing “Preview coming soon”. Clicking the link will return the correct page but i wonder why google was able to display the correct snapshot of my page that was indexed and instead it only display a blank picture with text “Preview Coming soon”. Can we do something about this?

You can check this for yourself:
site:portconnectintl.com

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:23:31 +0000

There is no way you can control the Google Bot.

By: smartlife

smartlife — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:47:42 +0000

I feel our site are in google sandbox, I want to know how to get out of the effect quick, Is there tips for deal with this trouble?

By: Umesh

Umesh — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:09:53 +0000

I noticed weird thing. I think it depends on which google site I am querying currently. When I do site:mysite from different location like Australia, UK, India google gave me different result.

Hmm pretty interesting…..

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:09:33 +0000

That might happen when Google re-visits the site. There is no way of knowing what the bot might index.

By: Umesh

Umesh — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:53:56 +0000

I noticed google has indexed 22 of my pages but now again it came back to 4 pages. Do you have any idea why this will happen??

Thanks in advance.

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:28:25 +0000

It really depends on what Google would like to index. That is out of your control.

By: Michael P

Michael P — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:48:22 +0000

I just switched my domain on a pre-existing site over last week. I have about 500 pages that need indexing. Currently only 14 pages have been indexed, and already submitted a site map.

I’m expecting all my current pages to be updated within 2 months. I really hope I’m wrong on this estimation. But so far it seems like it’s been adding 2-4 pages a day.

…………
PS: sorry if this is duplicate post…not sure if it submitted the 1st time.

By: justinthyme

justinthyme — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 16:59:30 +0000

In reply to Ed. I would like for Google to index my site more frequently. My site is already indexed and I post new several times a week. However the last time Google visited the site was 13 days ago...any suggestions on how to increase frequency? I have posted links to twitter, digg, wordpress, FB etc with no luck.

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:23:39 +0000

Have you tried Facebook? Not sure if it works as well as Digg.

By: Sell My Business

Sell My Business — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:19:41 +0000

Digg is a nice way to get indexed, but you should also look at other Web 2.0 sites, such as Twitter, Hubpages, etc.

Digg has been around for a few years, so it’s not as valued as it once was.

By: Blackout Blinds

Blackout Blinds — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 20:19:53 +0000

Posting my sites to Digg always seems to short-circuit this process. I’m a little worried about the sandbox issue one poster alluded to. Should I be worried about publishing or indexing my sites too soon?

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:07:36 +0000

In reply to Umesh. There a lot of things Google looks at to determine if any of your pages warrants indexing by their engine. What site are you referring to? Good Luck.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:04:43 +0000

You will have to wait till Google’s next visit. You cannot tell them anything about how to do their job. They will index any or all pages on your site depending on the appropriate content/keywords they deem fit to use. A title can help with the indexing process, but it is not written in stone.
Thank you.