Hi, First of all, sorry if this is the wrong place to post this.. I was wondering if someone could give me some advice.. I logged into my sitemaps account around a week ago and saw the following message confirming that my site was finally indexed in google after 6 weeks+ of waiting: However, when I looked at the index stats they showed that the site was not listed... And when I checked my sitemaps account the next day I saw: It now seems to change on a daily basis - here's the results from iWebtool trends showing number of indexed pages in google, MSN and yahoo: (Google, MSN, Yahoo) Tuesday, 12th of September 2006 0 614 7,030 Monday, 11th of September 2006 0 614 7,010 Sunday, 10th of September 2006 4,260 614 6,950 Saturday, 9th of September 2006 3,710 371 6,950 Friday, 8th of September 2006 0 371 6,850 Thursday, 7th of September 2006 3,800 383 6,780 Wednesday, 6th of September 2006 4,360 402 6,540 Code (markup): From this it appears that my site has been listed on four days out of the last week but even when it says it's listed here or on sitemaps if I use the site:[name of site] command I get no results back similarly a straightforward search for [sitename.com] returns references to the site but not the site itself. The cache:[sitename] command shows that google does have a cache of my site even when apparently it isn't indexed.. Looking at my Awstats it appears that googlebot has visited nearly 80,000 times in the last 10 days so it's not as though my site isn't being crawled.. I'm confused.. Is this normal? Am I just being impatient? (probably) Or does google just not like my site Thanks! Simon
If its new then its probably indexed in some datacenters and not indexed in others. Most probably the data will propagate across the datacenters ovr the next few days/weeks and you will be indexed fine.
Agreed simply run a check to see how many of the datacenters have your site indexed. I know http://www.yourcache.com/ is one.
Thanks for the advice! yourcache.com shows 0 for all datacenters at the moment. I did think think it could have been a datacenter thing when my site was "indexed" but didn't know about that tool (very useful, will have to bookmark it). I used SEOlogs "Multiple Datacenter Rank Check Tool" with [sitename.com] as the search term and searched all datacenters - this didn't return any results either.. Guess I'll have to wait and see what happens.
I always find it hard when people can't get their site(s) indexed. Get some links pointing to your site. That's it. It will get indexed shorty. I put up a 800 page site last week and I've got 45 pages indexed so far. I purchased 2 links here and I've done 1 reciprocal link exchange. By the end of this month, the site will be fully indexed. I put up a new site every week. It usually takes 3 weeks to get the site fully indexed, unless I purchase a couple links from www.Text-Link-Ads.com
I have links to my site: PR 0: 850 PR 1: 60 PR 2: 48 PR 3: 43 PR 4: 22 PR 5: 6 PR 6: 1 PR 7: 2 PR 8: 0 PR 9: 0 PR 10: 0 And have got several more over the last couple of days so that isn't the problem - the site's been crawled constantly for the last month and a bit..
An Update.. Seems the site still isn't indexed after many months but did jump from PR 0 to PR 5 in the last update . The site is being crawled constantly: Awstats October: Googlebot 354773+207 6.45 GB 31 Oct 2006 - 23:59 Code (markup): It used to have many (possibly 100s?) of subdomains which probably accounts for the heavy googlebot traffic. All the subdomains are now 301 redirected to the main URL - could this penalise my site somehow causing it not to be indexed? Anyone got any ideas/suggestions on what I could be doing wrong here? Thanks