When I create a new website, it's not that hard for me to get google to index the home page pretty easily. I can usually get that done in less than a week. However, how do I spark Google coming back? And how do I get google to index more than the home page. I've included Robots.txt and a sitemap, and made it friendly. I've also gotten a few dozen links into the website, from free directories. Yet google indexed it once, and hasn't come back. And I haven't been able to get google to index more than the home page, or Yahoo or any of the major search engines. So, how do I get google to index more than just the home page? Also, if you do a google search for www.myweb.com, you come up with about 20 sites that have a "link" to www.myweb.com. But, when you actually put in "link:www.myweb.com" it doesn't show any links to the website. Does that mean that Google doesn't recognize the incoming links? What does it take for google to actually recognize a "link"? And lastly, google is fastest to get indexed, followed by Yahoo, then alltheweb,altavista. But, I haven't found the trick to getting indexed by MSN yet. This same website has been "submitted" to MSN, it has 20 or so incoming links depending on what search engine you use. Yet MSN hasn't found a single link in, and hasn't indexed the site. Any tricks to getting MSN to index my site? So, a recap: 1. How do I get google to come back and reindex the site? Increase the crawl rate. 2. How do I get google to index the other pages in my site? 3. When is a link not really a link? 4. How do you get MSN to index a site? I know it's a lot of questions, but I didn't want to spam a board with four different topics. Thanks in advance for any help. MR
I can answer #1: You need to regularly and continiously update your site... add new content and update existing pages. If you do this consistently for a few weeks you will notice all the major crawlers coming back more often.
1) More links and frequent updates will prompt Google to spider more frequently - but why do you want this? 2) Get more links to the other pages in your site 3) I give up, when is a link not really a link? 4) Same as for the other search engines
As it has been mentioned, the main thing at this point is backlinks.... Much of the weighting for the revisit frequency is based upon back links. A back link is basically a vote of popularity. If no one else likes your site.. why should the SE? Simplistic.. but U get the idea
What's the point of adding more content if they aren't seeing that content. For instance I started a ten page website about a month and a half ago. I have consistently added a new page every week. Yet Google has only indexed the home page. So do they REALLY care about my new content? As far as I can tell, they haven't seen any of it. Just the homepage. If I had 1,000 pages of really relevant information yet they only see my minimalistic home page, what's the point? Google visited this site on December 24th, I have updated it numerous times, resubmitted sitemaps on every change, they haven't been back. I know about the links, but how do I know if google actually recognizes it as an actual link. Let's take a concrete example. www.bostonmassage.com Just a website I pulled up out of air. If you do a google search for www.bostonmassage.com, you get 29 results(including the omitted ones). However, when you type in link:www.bostonmassage.com then there are NO links that google shows. And there are 432 links that Yahoo sees. So, are the 29 actual backlinks that google is taking into consideration, or are they not? Hence my question, when is a link a link? MR P.S.- Make sure you do a highlight of the text. Keyword spam in "invisible ink" near the bottom. But they are still #1 for boston massage in google.
That's not really a long term solution now is it? I can't keep building links back to deep pages. What if I have an active site that is adding a few pages weekly, it could be quite cumbersome and time-intensive to actually get links to every page on my website. I would end up spending more time trying to get links, than create content. I just can't believe that's what google intended. I have older sites that only have links to the main page, and not that many really. But, the entire site has been indexed, in some instances hundreds of pages, with no deep links. There has to be some ability to get google to index an entire site without trying to build links to every single page in my site. And the whole point of making my work more efficient is trying to get things to happen faster with less work involved. I have multiple websites, and between my different websites I might add 100's of pages weekly, adding links to each page just isn't practical. MR