Site not getting indexed

Discussion in 'Websites' started by adamjthompson, Dec 22, 2005.

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    My site http://www.thompsonoutdoorsupply.com is not getting spidered properly by Google or Yahoo. MSN has had it properly spidered (currently 954 pages) for months.

    What's wrong? Why aren't Google and Yahoo picking up all my pages?

    Google is doing OK with 365 pages, but Yahoo STINKS!!!! They've only indexed 17 of my pages!

    Thanks for any help. :)
     
    adamjthompson, Dec 22, 2005 IP
  2. younghistorians

    younghistorians Well-Known Member

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    How long has the site been around?
     
    younghistorians, Dec 22, 2005 IP
  3. adamjthompson

    adamjthompson Well-Known Member

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    A few months. I think since September...it got PR in the last update.
     
    adamjthompson, Dec 22, 2005 IP
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  5. adamjthompson

    adamjthompson Well-Known Member

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    The problem is that the site has over 1,000 pages! :(
     
    adamjthompson, Dec 22, 2005 IP
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    WHOIS:
    Registered through: 3Essentials, Inc.
    Domain Name: THOMPSONOUTDOORSUPPLY.COM
    Created on: 2005-08-30 13:19:36
    Expires on: 2006-08-30 18:19:36
    Last Updated on: 2005-10-07 14:14:10

    The domain is less than 4 months old. I'd say probably a month after that you had the site up (guessing).

    That means you've had the site up for less than 3 months.


    Comparing the links in Google vs MSN and Yahoo, it hasn't found the links to your site yet. Google showed me 17 links to your site. Yahoo showed me 300. MSN showed me 1500.

    Give it time. Build content and links.

    SEO does not happen instantly.

    If you really are impatient, contact a seo firm about getting the results faster.
     
    Discreet, Dec 22, 2005 IP
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    Also - where are these thousand pages on the site? Your sitemap is just a bunch of links to a forum that hasn't been populated yet. And the forum itself is parsing session id's in the URL, of course Google won't visit it.
     
    Discreet, Dec 22, 2005 IP
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    sixty6 Well-Known Member

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    Exactly, I agree with Discreet and you will need more members in your forum. Also, Google takes times indexing sites. Create a sitemap with Google and it shows how many times Google indexes your sites and such.
     
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    dave487 Peon

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    Make sure you submit your sitemap to both yahoo and google.
     
    dave487, Dec 22, 2005 IP