Q and A: Why won't Google fully index my site?
Dear Kalena...
My site has been in operation for almost 9 months. No matter what i do i cannot get any pages from the site indexed by Google. It currently has just 2 and yesterday had 8. I use a sitemap text file which is downloaded regularily. So far this month Google has downloaded 150MB and a similar amount was downlaoded last month. Please advise me on what i should do.
Thanks
John
Kalena's Answer:
Dear John
I've had a look at your site and have noticed a few things:
1) Your site only has a Google Toolbar PageRank of 2 out of 10. This is due to the fact that the site is relatively new and has not yet built up link popularity. An immediate solution to this is to start submitting your site to niche directories and portals relating to travel/property and to seek out as many in-bound links to your site from high quality sites in your industry as you can.
2) If your site is only 9 months old, it's highly likely it is still suffering from Google's aging delay and/or sandbox for new sites. This means that your site will not be easily found on Google for any keywords until after a certain time period has expired. See my posts Why Has My Site Dropped Out of Google? and Difference Between Google's Aging Delay and Sandbox for more information.
3) Your site was last cached by Google on 13 April and currently has 2 pages indexed. This should increase once the aging delay has expired and your sitemap is indexed more regularly.
4) You mention you've sent Google a text sitemap. You should really be creating an XML sitemap and submitting it to Google Sitemaps. See my post Which is the Best Google Sitemap Creator to Use? for more information on how to do this.
5) Your site seems to use identical or very similar Title attributes and META Tags for each page. Some pages e.g. faq.html, don't even have Titles or META Tags! If you want Google to index and rank each page individually, you've got to treat them like individual pages! Optimize each page for unique keywords relating to the content on that page.
While you're in aging delay limbo, best to concentrate on building up links to your site and optimizing your pages for target keywords. Good luck!
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My site has been in operation for almost 9 months. No matter what i do i cannot get any pages from the site indexed by Google. It currently has just 2 and yesterday had 8. I use a sitemap text file which is downloaded regularily. So far this month Google has downloaded 150MB and a similar amount was downlaoded last month. Please advise me on what i should do.
Thanks
John
Kalena's Answer:
Dear John
I've had a look at your site and have noticed a few things:
1) Your site only has a Google Toolbar PageRank of 2 out of 10. This is due to the fact that the site is relatively new and has not yet built up link popularity. An immediate solution to this is to start submitting your site to niche directories and portals relating to travel/property and to seek out as many in-bound links to your site from high quality sites in your industry as you can.
2) If your site is only 9 months old, it's highly likely it is still suffering from Google's aging delay and/or sandbox for new sites. This means that your site will not be easily found on Google for any keywords until after a certain time period has expired. See my posts Why Has My Site Dropped Out of Google? and Difference Between Google's Aging Delay and Sandbox for more information.
3) Your site was last cached by Google on 13 April and currently has 2 pages indexed. This should increase once the aging delay has expired and your sitemap is indexed more regularly.
4) You mention you've sent Google a text sitemap. You should really be creating an XML sitemap and submitting it to Google Sitemaps. See my post Which is the Best Google Sitemap Creator to Use? for more information on how to do this.
5) Your site seems to use identical or very similar Title attributes and META Tags for each page. Some pages e.g. faq.html, don't even have Titles or META Tags! If you want Google to index and rank each page individually, you've got to treat them like individual pages! Optimize each page for unique keywords relating to the content on that page.
While you're in aging delay limbo, best to concentrate on building up links to your site and optimizing your pages for target keywords. Good luck!
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[If you found this post helpful, you might benefit from downloading our free Search Engine Optimization lesson]
1 Comments:
So I'm having similar issues with www.digitz.org
Googlebot hits my site every day, still the webmaster tools say the last successful index by googlebot was on Apr 03... 6 months ago! The data is completely different than it was 6 months ago.
I submitted a sitemap via sitemap.txt and it's obvious this works because the logs of googlebot show them accessing these directories. I'm very frustrated at this and want to know why googlebot is even touching my site if it isn't doing anything with the data...
Please help,
Jimmy
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