Hi. I've had my blog up for exactly 2 months now, and up until now I was barely getting any search engine traffic (except for some MSN hits). This week, though, I've been getting massive traffic from Google. I guess that means I'm somewhat out of the sandbox. The problem is... Google has only indexed my home page, not my individual blog posts. So let's say someone searches for "Video Game X", and my post on Video Game X is in the August archives, the Google listing will show my home page Title along with a description of what I wrote for Video Game X. Then the person will click onto my home page and see nothing about Video Game X (because it's in the archives, not the home page), and they'll leave. This results in probably nonreturning visitors for me AND they don't click my Adsense ads because they never end up finding what they're looking for. So what can I do to get my individual blog posts listed in Google? Thanks for any help, it's much appreciated
What is the address of your site? It would help if we could take a look because the answer may be obvious
The following is a post I put on another famous webmaster forum. I'd just about given up on using CMS software as regards SERPS. I then thought it might be useful to have a SE-friendly Wordpress theme. Wait a bit, and if my site is indexed properly, use this theme. === I've had a Wordpress theme developed which: Tells search engine robots to ignore the 'junk' WP outputs, and index the content pages; Puts unique meta tags on each post page; Uses a right side-bar so its HTML is at the 'bottom' of the page; Includes Adsense code, and a logo option, if you want them; Relatively 'clean' HTML, for extra search engine lurve; No plug-ins required. http://www.ttfreeware.co.uk/olate/u...ils.php?file=24 (Track back along that URL if I change CMS [again!]) Read the README; there's one or two tweaks you'd need to do for maximum effectiveness. WARNING : I uploaded the recent verision to my own blog a few days ago. At the time of writing the Google index is showing pages from Feb./Mar. of this year ; hopefully it's a minor conniption. A previous version was getting its pages indexed nicely. Use at your own risk. Update: I used the 'site:' command on one of Google's datacenters, and the 'new' pages are starting to show up properly. Fingers crossed.
It takes time for Google to get around to indexing internal pages. Be patient and make sure each page has good SEO. Watch out for too much duplicated content (repeated side menus, repeated titles, etc.) on each page. Blog posts tend to be short and can sometimes be overwhelmed by boilerplate content on each page. In this case, Google will send the pages to its supplemental index (Google hell).