I have launched my new site about 2 weeks ago. its on retweet.it domain. i know its not yet seo friendly but: - it has a lot of twitter mentions - it was submitted to over 100 social bookmarking sites according to my experience google should have indexed it now but its not is it becouse of the .it domain?
I agree w/ mr.biz. Have you bothered to check your server logs or Google Webmaster Tools to see if your site has yet been crawled? It could be that you've been crawled but they just decided not to index you yet. If I were you, though, I would take measures to make SURE they do NOT index your site until it's finished... I would have your robots.txt blocking the site from being indexed by anyone. It is a terrible tactic to throw up basically a blank template and get indexed or start promoting your site/doing link development before your site is ready for prime time. What if people actually followed your bookmarks and saw your site in the shape it's in? They would be like, "What a piece of crap site." Then when you do have it finished and they see another link to your site they will be like, "Oh yea! That was that crappy site I went to last month. I'm not wasting my time clicking on the link!" I have never understood why people do that - start promoting their site and trying to get it indexed and they don't even have it finished. It's like having a grand opening for a clothing store and when customers start pouring into the store, saying to them, "Ummm Sorry. We don't have any clothes yet. Don't know when we will have clothes. We just wanted to open the doors to the public so we FEEL like we actually have a store." How many of those customers do you think are going to come back or take you seriously as a business later? Finish your site first. Then promote it and worry about getting it indexed.
Google dont penalize italian sites (.it is from Italy). Just maybe is not showing your site fast, but in your webastat you will be able to find if Google already crawl it. Keep in mind that if you want your site to be showed on google.com, its not a good idea to use .it, not because Google penalize it, but because its from some sepecific country with their own language. Its not commom to find .it pages on google.com as results for english searches. -Also, your site need much SEO imho. And take out the antiIE comment on the botton. personally i cant take seriously a site with that kind of comments, sounds amateur to me
actually the site is ready and receiving lots of traffic but its not yet seo optimized yet (mean different meta tags, seo friendly urls, etc.) for this project my main traffic source never will be Google. its just a bit annoying its not indexed. thats all thanks for your comment
You should check your webmaster tools. It will tell you that google sees a 500 Internal Server Message error when it tries to reach your robots.txt Just put a blank / dummy robots.txt there or ensure that your server returns a 404 for robots.txt. Only 200 and 404 are considered valid response for robots.txt In all other cases, bots may decide (in case of google they do decide) that they don't have enough data for exclusion and choose to not index the whole website.
Implementing SEO friendly URLs is MUCH easier before you get indexed rather than after. If you do it later you're going to have to 301 redirect each old URL to it's new equivalent SEO friendly to maintain credit for any inbound links you might have.
Update: just checked my sitemap status at google webmaster tools it says robots.txt was unreachable thats why they didnt index my site. The funny thing is that i never had robots.txt on this site. Now generated a robots.txt with the tool provided by google and set everything to allow indexing. Uploaded it to my server and tried to validate it. Now it says parse error. But its exactly the same file google provided. Strange
I think you should checked at yahoo site explorer about that,and if yahoo site explorer,for me it just matter or time until Google indexed out and if you have wordpress you better use that since wordpress is the fastest platform to get indexed
It is not because of the tld, have u submitted sitemap? Google takes time to begin the first index. you registered only on APRIL 2, so you need to wait till end of april
i have already submitted sitemap and according to google webmaster tools it tried to index it but couldnt becouse of the "unreachable robots.txt" im using the same method to get my sites indexed for all of my sites and usually it works within a week or so
That's great, I see that you have a valid robots.txt, I am sure your website will get indexed pretty soon.
The robots.txt would be the issue. I have seen .it ranking for some long tail keywords recently but haven't seen it ranking for any high difficulty keywords but that may just be an issue of low PR/trust. I would say Google will index it as soon as the robots.txt is worked out and Google is notified through various indexing methods.
The robots.txt would be the issue. I have seen .it ranking for some long tail keywords recently but haven't seen it ranking for any high difficulty keywords but that may just be an issue of low PR/trust. I would say Google will index it as soon as the robots.txt is worked out and Google is notified through various indexing methods.
thanks for the feedbacks guys. i have fixed my robots.txt and seems google finally accepted it (at least the adsense spider). hope it will be indexed soon