ok, I need to pick some brains on this matter I was using a domain (website) to promote a service, which ran for a few months. Now the service is no longer available so I was forced to delete the pages and create a blank index page which basically said the service is gone. So for a few months only a single index page remained on the server. Google indexed this single page (which is "index.htm"), and the deleted pages remained in its index. I decided to re-use this domain to create a portal on the same subject, with hope I could bypass Googles sandbox, and hopefully get a jump start in the SERPS. I launched my new portal on June 5th. Since then Google has indexed only a single page "index.php". The GoogleBot visits almost everyday, although the entire site is still not indexed? I have over 50 pages of quality original information, all well optimized. Can I expect it to be indexed in time? or has my site raised a caution flag with the bots? I hope it will be indexed, although I wanted to ask the great people at DP The domain is http://www.forexfusion.com Thanks for your help.
Hi, Have you tried Google Sitemaps? It might tell you if something is wrong with your site... I see Google has so far indexed 7 pages from your domain: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:forexfusion.com&hl=en&lr=&filter=0 of which some are obviously pages from the old site - if they contain same or at least similar content, you could set up 301 (permanent) redirects from old URLs to the new ones and Google will pick up and replace your old urls with the new ones. If you need instructions, tell me about your server and I might be able to help you. Nevertheless, I'd definitely join google Sitemaps and submit a sitemap of my site, even if this won't affect on Google indexing your pages but at least you'll be able to see how Google sees your site.
Since you didn't update the site for a while, google has tagged your site as one that doesn't update often, so it'll be a while before it re-indexes you. To help it along, post the link to the site from another high PR site to "point" Google to it. This might speed up indexing. By the way, this has nothing to do with Adsense. Take care to watch where you post threads.
Yea, they indexed the new index page, and the rest are gone. So I should re-create the old file names, and use a 301? I was going to use googles "remove url" tool ( http://services.google.com:8882/urlconsole/controller?cmd=reload&lastcmd=robots&cmd=robots ) to get rid of them, but was nervous. I am going to look into Sitemaps and try that, thanks very much for your help!
Jack, sorry, you're right. I just became so comfortable in the Adsense section because I have spent quite a bit of time here Also, I have linked it from a PR5 site, so I hope that helps. Thanks Jack.
I wouldn't bother with all the url removal and 301's. Since your site is already in the Google index, all you have to do is let them know that the site has been updated, and a sitemap should help with that.
Um..hum... sitemaps dont really work. You need inbound high PR links for the actual indexing to happen. But then again you also have to deal with google big daddy whihc slows down inndexing. I dont know how long big daddy will remain in affect but it is really annoying from what I have read.
I wouldn't suggest you to use the remove url tool. I mean, these are the pages that ARE already indexed and show in the SERPS but when a Google-er clicks on them from inside the SERPs, she gets 'Page Not Found'. So for those URLs that are already indexed (meaning, you don't have to re-create all the old file names, I have counted only 3 such urls) but the pages no longer exist, I would do a 301 redirects to existent pages with similar content.
I generated and submitted a Sitemap to Google yesterday. Today I did a "site:www.forexfusion.com", and noticed all the old URL's are gone. So I guess this is a start. Now I have to hope they crawl the rest sometime soon! I also submitted a text sitemap to Yahoo, which I have the same issues. I will post the results here. Thanks again guys.
Since I have applied the Sitemap, Google has dumped all my non-existent pages, and picked up 12 new ones. They seem to add a page or two every few days. Also, since the Yahoo Sitemap, they has also dumped some of the old pages (3 still remain) and they have indexed 15 new pages. I have yet to see any real traffic from these search engines, but I will keep my fingers crossed.
Just do only one thing just add url to google LINK and optimise your site to search engine level for that you can gogole , it will take about 2 months to index your index page !!! thats it