Am I Indexed by Google or not?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Jhar, Feb 21, 2008.

  1. #1
    I have a 3 month old site where I have submitted a google site map and in WebMaster Tools it reports about the sitemap that:

    Submitted Feb 12, 2008
    Last downloaded by Google Feb 21, 2008
    Total URLs in Sitemap 64
    Indexed URLs in Sitemap 31


    That is all fine but if I check on Google using site:www.duimc.com it returns zero results which means it is not indexed or showing up in any search results.

    What gives? Why does Google say pages are indexed when they are not.

    I have newer sites with less backlinks that have gotten indexed in a fraction of the time. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
     
    Jhar, Feb 21, 2008 IP
  2. brag

    brag Peon

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    Yeah your indexed.

    site:duimc.com is showing results.

    Google treats the www and non-www as too different domains.

    Just read up on what I just said and teach yourself how to do a mod rewrite in your .htaccess so when people type in www in converts automatically to the non-www . This tells the googlebot the same thing, that www.duimc.com is no different than duimc.com.

    Good luck. Back up your htaccess before touching it.
     
    brag, Feb 21, 2008 IP
  3. astup1didiot

    astup1didiot Notable Member

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    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^duimc\.com$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.duimc.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    Add that above code to your .htaccess file in your top level web directory, it will 301 redirect all non-www urls to the correct www included urls. Expect it to take some time before all Pagerank & SEO weight turns over.
     
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    Thanks - I totally spaced on the www vs non www issue.
     
    Jhar, Feb 21, 2008 IP
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    Thanks very much!
     
    Jhar, Feb 21, 2008 IP