I have seven websites all built on Blogger platform. For six of them, if I type the name of the site, its full title, into the Google search box, the site is number one or two in the results. But for one of them, set up seven months ago and to which I post every day, a search for the site by title does not bring up the site at all. The site is fully indexed and returns at number one for Bing on title search. Anyone have any knowledge of this kind of issue?
How competitive are the keywords in your title? Maybe it is ranking by title but further down in the rankings?
There are many reasons why you cannot find yourself in Google: - use Google Webmaster Tools to uncover errors; - age of the ssites (sites that have just launched often don't rank well in the search engines); - the titles of your pages are critically important to your search engine visibility; - you need to have good, valuable, quality and not duplicate content; - Google looks at the quality and quantity of incoming links from other websites, blogs, directories to help determine how well your website should rank.
That weird, perhaps some type of script or setting is blocking that site that you're unaware of. Be sure to check all your settings, scripts, plugins to make sure there's nothing off. If problems persists, then you should try contacting Google.
It certainly doesn't rank in the first 15 pages! It is called Italy On This Day and every new post (one each day) is about something that happened in Italy - an event of significance or the birth or death of someone famous - on the same date (i.e On This Day). If Google is assessing the content for relevance to the title it is not doing a very good job - there are sites that appear in the results which randomly contain the words (or some of the words) in my title but have no relevance at all to the subject. And, as I say, all my other sites rank #1 for title, some of them despite having very little traffic. I just can't help but thinking it is a technical problem rather than an SEO problem.
The site launched last November and has new content every day. That content is original and high quality (I'm a national newspaper journalist!) and is absolutely relevant to the title. The site is called Italy On This Day and each post is about something - a birth, death or event - that happened in Italy 'on this day' in history. A tried and tested concept. It is an informative site and though the words taken in isolation are common ones, it is my experience with other sites of my own that Google takes into account the order words appear in and points people to the site where they appear in that sequence. Two examples of other sites I run that do appear at the top of results for title are Crime Scene Italy and Best of Bergamo, despite the fact that there are many other sites that contain those words. Crime Scene Italy has only a small number of pages, very little traffic and no inbound links, yet comes out top for title, which is why I can't understand why Italy On This Day doesn't feature at all for title (at least not in the first 15 pages). What sort of errors would you be looking for from Webmaster Tools?
The site is indexed - I've checked. I've contacted Google (or at least a couple of forums) and the two people with whom I have had long exchanges insist I just need to promote the site more vigorously. One of them suggested the other sites I mentioned (six in total, all owned by me) were coming out at No 1 for title by some kind of fluke!
Here are some items that you should check: - crawl errors (it will ket you know if Google has problems accessing your site, like Server Errors, Access Denied, Not found errors); - Blocked URL's (when you use a robot.txt file to specify what's off limits and if you configure this file incorectly, you may be blocking your entire site from Google); - Malware (if this happens, it will have a huge negative impact on your website's visibility.