What the are the common reasons for a site to be crawled but not indexed by Google? AWStats for the month of october. Googlebot 166+20 1.61 MB 29 Oct 2006 - 00:49 And if anyone can tell me what the +20 means, id appreciate it too... Im getting a comperable number of hits frmo MSNBot and Yahoo's Slurp and im indexed on both of them
Be patient. If your site is getting crawled then you will turn up in the index sooner or later. Work on getting more backlinks pointing to your site.
When it comes to indexing, google takes its time compare to others. But you would get indexed eventually. I had to wait for a month for my blog to get indexed.
Google indexed one of my sites in a couple of days without me doing anything, and it is taking more than one months for another website, even though I'm building links and doing the homework.
Yea it seems Google is taking its sweet time.... In addition to those stats I also have a predicted PR of 2 if that means anything...
One small thing I have noticed if you have even a small amount of duplicate content it can take considerably longer than if your site is totaly unique. Worse still if you are on a subdomain like blogger with duplicate content. Use www.copyscape.com to check if their are other sites with even a little content the same as yours. The only exception to this is if you are running a News type site & linking back to the news in the correct way you do not seem to get penalised www.yabenews.com in my sig was indexed in hours and deeply in a few days all content was dup at the time but all news.
Thats a god point. The site that was not indexed has some duplicated content (articles from article banks). The other one had only original content (little at that time, but original) Maybe one should wait until the site shows up in google before adding dup.
The 3 articles I currently have up in my "article library" are completely unique. I have another 5 articles being written as we speak, the only duplicate content on the entire site is in the blog area which has news from CNN Personal Finance, Smartmoney.Com, Forbes etc. Could it be that a large portion of the content on the site is via affiliates? I mean, its not spamming but its a credit card site and a dominate number of pages have Credit Card listings and listings of loans/insurance displayed by type etc.
There is more weird than that. This site http://www.choosecreditcards.com/ is a PR3 and is not indexed. Talk about strange. The site was created in May 2006 and it has yet to be indexed.
Google doesn't index a site immediately you have to wait a little bit And for whatever reason a site can be sand boxed even with a page rank. It depends on the content, maybe there was even a conflict. At times like that though, it's best to contact google about it.
What makes you think this ? Maybe you have never had a site indexed quickly many of us have It is also true that at times google does not index quickly but normaly for a reason hence this thread. LazyD what site are you talking about ? the blog in your sig ? This has no links going back to the source if thats what you are refering to. If these are News snippets with no refference to the source they are now Duplicate Content I just ran the blog by www.copyscape.it has loads of Duplicate Content. As the source is probably indexed you now have Dup Content.
Thanks I thought their may be some truth in what I was thinking/experiening I had a blog on blogger account with dup content waited forever to get it indexed just gave up eventualy ""Maybe one should wait until the site shows up in google before adding dup"" Your Call I can only add if its deep enough it may never get found or you could use robots to exclude or The other thing I have heard is its all about percentages if you have 90% unique a little dup will not hurt but if your first article home page is dup you are off to a bad start Good Luck
Yea, I dont have a reference URL back to the story, I honestly dont know how to set up an RSS feed into to Wordpress with only the articles I want, I tried RSS feeds before when I was running bblog but they just showed all articles and I only want certain ones. If anyone could advise me on how I could fix that...
With duplicate content, your pages will end up in Supplemental results. And as you're facing, it will take longer to get indexed. Try adding more content around the articles to avoid this problem.