How long did it take Google to index you?

Some people might know my problem, I've posted it here for the last month and change: I moved all my content over to another domain name a month and a half ago, and I'm still not showing up in Google's index. I've made sure to get BLs from high-ranking PR sites (about a dozen or so initially, then more as the month wore on), I'm in the DMOZ, and I've submitted my sitemap. While Google's spider does visit my site, the most it's ever done is spider 10 pages a day (and that's only for the last couple of days, before that it was one page a day, if that). And with the recent PR update, not a single thing is happening with my site in regards to Google (if anything, Google's spider didn't even visit my site yesterday, and still no signs of it yet today). The reason why I'm so desperate to get into Google is this -- when I had my old domain, I have such unique content that I invariably end up at the very top of Google's searches, so much so taht Google basically accounted for almost 90% of my visitors. It may be foolish to rely so much on them, but it was purely accidental; I never SEO'ed my site, never did anything to try to get higher SERPs, etc. It just happened because I had a lot of original, unique content.

After a month and a half, and not a single presence on Google -- no viable BLs have yet to show up, I'm not even listed, etc, I'm considering moving everything over to a new domain name and starting over. My very uneducated and paranoid guess is that something has happened with my domain, that I must have done something wrong when I transferred the content over to my new domain name, that got me banned or on Google's bad side. So, I'm thinking about starting all over again.

With that said, can anyone give me any indications that I'm just being paranoid, that I should just wait it out? I.e. How long did it take Google to index YOUR site? Even just a little bit? Even if its anecdotal, that's all I want, to get your thoughts on my situation. Did it take you guys longer than a month and a half to appear in Google? How long did it take your BLs to appear, etc. Let me make it clear: at this point all I desire is to get listed on Google.

Please offer up some experiences. I need to know how you guys fared, so I can gauge my own experiences in getting listed.

Thanks.

 

I'm just on a limp here, but it could very well be that you re-registered a domain that has been blacklisted in Google and expired after that.

But then again, i'm just on a guessing spree

 

It took almost 5 months to even show my primary domain and almost a year to get anything of any substance when I changed domains.

Yahoo still after a year has only 4 pages indexed.

 

I've gotten a few hundred pages indexed within 2-5 days, and a few thousand within a week and a bit. Just feed it backlinks, and you're good to go.

 

Every site I've have gets at least some pages indexed by google within 2 weeks. Yahoo is a different story, I don't know what their problem is. I'm running a test with yahoo right now to see if having adsense on a new site has something to do with it.

Also, what do your urls look like? Are they static html or dynamic?

 

Wow, that's weird. Yahoo has indexed about 25 pages so far (they started with 8 almost immediately, as in a few days later). MSN has indexed almost half of my site's 9000 pages. Google hasn't even touched me.

As to my URL, I'm not sure what you mean by is it static hml or dynamic. It's just, you know, a regular page. I add content every other day. It's all original content. I don't rss feed it or anything. Well, I do RSS feed, but only headline topics from my board and blog. Woudl that make a difference?

 

That's the thing. I have some very high ranking BLs that I established almost a month ago, but Google doesn't even recognize them as viable BLs (re: "real" BLs). If I search for my page using quotes, it clearly shows that my BLs exist on those other sites, except nothing shows up using "link:" or "allinurl:". So I can only assume that Google HAS crawled the pages where my link shows up, it just won't do anything with them.

 

P.S. In case anyone was wondering, I have no friggin idea why my post was moved from the Google forum to this one by the mods. Not a clue. The thread of my topic and the description of this forum doesn't even seem to exist in the same universe.

 

I mean what do the urls look like? Are the real long with "?" and session id's in them? Google has gotten pretty good at following dynamic urls, but I think some urls are still hard for them to follow. Have you done a sitemap that has a link to it from the home page? Use a program like Xneu to find all your urls, then create a page with a link to all the urls you want spidered. You can use a small transparent gif and make it a link to this page. Visitors can't see this link, but the search engines will follow the links on the page "sitemap.html". It is just a way to make it easier for the robots to find all the links you want spidered. You can use css to control the size of the font for the links.

 

I mean what do the urls look like? Are they non-search engine friendly, i.e. real long with "?" and session id's in them? Google has gotten pretty good at following dynamic urls, but I think some urls are still hard for them to follow. Have you done a sitemap that has a link to it from the home page? Use a program like Xneu to find all your urls, then create a page with a link to all the urls you want spidered. You can use a small transparent gif and make it a link to this page. Visitors can't see this link, but the search engines will follow the links on the page "sitemap.html". It is just a way to make it easier for the robots to find all the links you want spidered. You can use css to control the size of the font for the links.

 

toocool, i share your pain. Check out rockforums.net (typical search: rock forums) on MSN, Yahoo and then Google. My site's been around since January. I have no idea what's causing this poo-pooing but i'm not best pleased about it!

 

Your site has no google backlinks. That's the main problem. The other problem is that your forum uses session id's. You should look into making modifications so the URL's don't show when the bot's visit it.

This is for phpbb, but I'm sure someone has something similar for IBP.

http://www.devside.net/web/config/phpBB

 

Wow this is it? I was sure I'd get more responses. But I guess the fact that the mods buried my topic in this totally unrelated category didn't help. Thanks, Mod. Great work.

 

mjewel, check Yahoo and MSN. Google is deliberately refusing to acknowledge any backlinks as valid. do a google search for "http://www.rockforums.net" if you don't believe me! I realise some of them are nofollow, such as the Wikipedia ones, but many are certainly valid ones, in msn and yahoo at least!

not sure what i've done to incur Google's wrath. Also, I'm not sure I have SID's - are you sure?

EDIT: just noticed some very odd Google behaviour

1) search for "http://www.rockforums.net" - notice just two results - tragedy!
2) now search for "www.rockforums.net" - notice lots more results, and yet many are in fact proper links to "http://www.rockforums.net" - google is deliberately ignoring the 'http://' part! Very puzzling indeed!

 

After a month that i've submitted my personal site pages, I'm having the same problem with Google search, although my link show up when i search for my page complete address. Yahoo on the other hand is excellent tho, there's only one me and i'm right on top of the list, just like the way it should be. I guess i'll try to submit my pages again to Google, Backlink and sitemap this time, i'll let you know what happens

By the way, where is your site at with Google now?

 

oh and Msn seacrh is totally ignoring me like i'm a piece of shit
you know what can be frustrating with this is the one's that shows up in search engines are the ones ADVERTISING you , but NOT you

 

I'm also having problems with my site www.outsourcingsw.com. After a couple of months, neither Google nor Yahoo seem to have included it. Are there any suggestions to what I should do?

 

you may suggest your website for google's crawler here http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

 

It took me like 5-7 days to index 100+ pages

 

I have also suffered the same fate and my experience is that you wont get the answer. Google does not answer any such query, have their own secret alogarithm. I all forums, what we hear is the individual perception of the writer based on what he has experienced personally for his site and not from authenticated google relase
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