My site http://www.onestopwireleshop.com has just came out of the sandbox after 2 years. Geesh! Finally! The only thing is that i have noticed that all of my pages exept my main page are supplemental or either don't even show up. Why is this?
Yep, none of my pages start showing up til just this past week. I was showing up on msn and yahoo and for good keywords but now everything is shuffling. I still show up for some terms but its seem even yahoo and msn has sorta shuffled around and stuck me back in the rankings a bit on the the main terms i am shooting for. But, yea, I thought i was never going to get out of the "sandbox" and I don't know what made my site all of the sudden come out of the depths of it after 2 years. Like I said, i have a new site and it is ranking for terms almost immediatly. So go figure i guess. I just don't understand why google won't get rid of of my supps like they are supposed to. Yet i have been reading where after several months they usually come back and no one knows why. The most important thing though to me is, why google is not indexing my pages that are directly off of my home page. When i do a site:"your site here" the only page that is showing that is not supplemental and ranking on the serps is my home page. Yahoo and msn like the other pages... I dunno, maybe i just need to give it time. I am racking my brain though trying to think if it is something that i have done to make googlebot not march on through and index all of my pages and do away with the supps.
Any suggestions? Anyone see any reasons as to why all of my pages aren't being indexed? Not enough links? Content? This is the other site that i have just started. cellphonedeals-online.com I haven't got everything in place and have not put much content into it yet but yet it is ranking in google right out of the box.
I feel your pain! Two years is amazing for something that many say does not even exist Six months is the longest I have experienced.
Yes, there is a lot of pages in supplemental results. Many of them dont have META description, make sure to have different description for each page. It's seems many of those pages are in 404 : http://www.onestopwirelesshop.com/Verzion-Cell-Phones/Verizon-Wireless-Motorola-V710.htm http://www.onestopwirelesshop.com/Alltel-Cell-Phones/Motorola-V710.htm http://www.onestopwirelesshop.com/cingular/sonyericssonz500a.htm You better to fix it, either remove them, either redirect them to existing pages
Most of the supps that i have are pages that don't exist anymore because the phone are no longer available. So what you are you saying? Put the pages back up that a phone doesn't exist for and then redirect them?
If the pages don't exist anymore what the problem if they are in supplemental ? The only drawback I saw is that if they show up in the SERPs people clicking on them will don't find your site. Maybe, the best thing to do is to redirect them to your home page or another existing page in your site.
Yea, that is true. That main problem that i have is that my cingular, verizon, sprint, free cell phones... and so on are not showing up. Only my home page. I have no idea why google isn't showing the cingular,verizon, sprint and so on when i do i site search or what i can do to get google to show them. I have a sitemap so i know that google knows that they are there. Maybe the only page that made it out of the sandbox is my homepage and i will just have to wait for my other pages to show. I dunno. I don't understand why google is just showing my home page and no other pages that are current but is showing alot of supps instead.
I dont recomend this but you can try this in your htacces either copy urls that dont exists and redirect or use this ErrorDocument 404 /
What about google recognizing my other pages other than my home page though? Is it just a waiting game or is there something i can do other than sitemaps that can speed google up in show my other pages? I have waited two years... what's a little longer.. Link build... ask questions... build on site.. ask queations... link build some more... as questions... optimize.... and so on... and not particularly in that order... hehe
Yes, make a 301 redirect in .htaccess for pages you know don't exist anymore, and create a personalized 404 error page well integrated in your site (with menus...etc...). This is imho the best way if you don't want to loose potential visitors. And you can try to remove thoses pages from Google index : http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller?cmd=reload&lastcmd=login (actually I'm not sure if this tool works for pages in supplemental, you can try)
You can try to get inbound link to those page, deep links are good I think to get ou of supplemental. And make sure thoses pages have differents descriptions, title and content. Not sure about what wicked mean , but it promote freedom of speech and fight against censorship
Well at first glance it just looked like a guy yelling and then I notice there was a hand over his face.... I got the meaning.. but it just kinda caught me off guard when i really looked at it to notice notice there was a hand over his mouth with a hole in it. I was like, What thugh?....