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**Scurvy** · 01-27-2005, 11:16 AM

Why won't google index me?

Hi all, I'm really struggling to work out why my website won't be indexed by google. It's been going for two months now, has had an increasingly larger hit rate, and has been linked to by several good sites, submitted to several search engines.

Yet it remains out of google's index, it is so frustrating. Even my crappy portfolio website which I never completed was indexed in under week. What am I doing wrong? The site address is www.talk-uk.com.

Any help would be much apprecited.

**clientcenters** · 01-27-2005, 05:14 PM

Bake yourself a Google Rank Cake

http://www.nerdbyte.com/modules.php?...article&sid=31

**fusionhosting** · 01-27-2005, 11:10 PM

I've had the exact same problem with several sites I recently launched in the exact timeframe as you. Even e-mail Google, got a response it had been forwarded on to the engineering team, but of course I never heard back.

**BloggerForHire** · 01-28-2005, 05:06 AM

Did you get any googlebot visits?

How is the web looking in some plain text browser? That was often an issue in similar cases I have heard about. Bots are rather stupid and often see the page very differently from what you see in your browser.

**Scurvy** · 01-28-2005, 08:05 AM

I've had thes following google bots visit:
crawl-66-249-65-244.googlebot.com
crawl-66-249-65-73.googlebot.com

My site should be pretty text friendly, I've used a bit of CSS and a few layers on it, I don't know if that's making it hard. I could probably add some alt tags to the images, but there's not a lot of images to add to.

**TaylorAtCTS** · 01-28-2005, 03:23 PM

This isnt a big deal but id fix that. ALT tags are a great way to help users out and search engines. DO NOT stuff keywords or google may think your spammin, you can use a few keywords thouh.

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...w.talk-uk.com/

How many good backlinks do you have? Try to get at least 10 high PR links to your site. I'm still trying to get more to mine if you want to trade links..

Quote:

My site should be pretty text friendly, I've used a bit of CSS and a few layers on it, I don't know if that's making it hard. I could probably add some alt tags to the images, but there's not a lot of images to add to.

CSS and layers are not a problem at all. My site doesnt have any tables...

Add your ALT tags as stated above, netscape navigator needs them and it helps users and search engines.. (wont help you get indexed faster though)

**shabbirbhimani** · 01-29-2005, 01:08 AM

Hey Google is not crawling your website for a simple reason

You have something like
<META NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="1 Week">
In the header which instructs the google to visit after 1 week time. Its not that you are inviting him every week but actually you are not allowing it to crawl the sites daily.

Many new web masters and developers think above Meta is very helpful but its one of the most useless think to have on your any of the page.

Thanks and hope it helps you
Shabbir Bhimani

**TaylorAtCTS** · 01-29-2005, 03:47 PM

LOL cant believe i didnt see that.. your saying "sorry googlebot, comeback next week"

**neorunner** · 02-02-2005, 02:48 PM

Very true. Get rid of it! Good job spotting that.

**Scurvy** · 02-05-2005, 10:14 AM

It is crawling my site though, as I showed above!

**madmonk** · 02-05-2005, 04:11 PM

great tips guys!

**MacGD016** · 02-07-2005, 06:13 AM

Hi, I am a website newby and know little or nothing about HTML but I managed to create a website www.esterel.co.uk using Word. I am sure that it is very inefficent and badly coded but it seems to work ok and it is indexed by MSN and Yahoo amongst others. In general I am happy with it and it is delivering a reasonalble number of hits. BUT like the originator of this thread I cannot get Google to index it.

Can anyone help me................PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!

**shabbirbhimani** · 02-07-2005, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by MacGD016

Hi, I am a website newby and know little or nothing about HTML but I managed to create a website www.esterel.co.uk using Word. I am sure that it is very inefficent and badly coded but it seems to work ok and it is indexed by MSN and Yahoo amongst others. In general I am happy with it and it is delivering a reasonalble number of hits. BUT like the originator of this thread I cannot get Google to index it.

Can anyone help me................PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!

Generating the Website with word is nice but as there is lots of unnecessary codes that your code to content ratio will be way too less for anything good to happen for a competitive words.You need to get some HTML tutorials and start on your way to remove that codes and then it will benefit in SE.

**webspace** · 02-07-2005, 08:16 AM

I actually don't know much about robots so I'm going to ask.

If I don't update daily should I have the spiders revist daily. Or if I update the site every three days should I have them revisit every three days.

Is a daily index going to help my rankings more than a weekly index.

If I use the one day revisit tag, will I get hit every day by all the bots or do some of them only index every week or so. The reason I am asking this is that I have my sites set up for index every 15 days. If all the bots visited every day it would be another Gigabyte of bandwidth every month. Bear in mind that this is 500 page site.

Quote:

Originally Posted by shabbirbhimani

Hey Google is not crawling your website for a simple reason

You have something like
<META NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="1 Week">
In the header which instructs the google to visit after 1 week time. Its not that you are inviting him every week but actually you are not allowing it to crawl the sites daily.

Many new web masters and developers think above Meta is very helpful but its one of the most useless think to have on your any of the page.

Thanks and hope it helps you
Shabbir Bhimani

**Scurvy** · 02-09-2005, 10:22 AM

I have now been indexed on EVERY search engine that I can find, all BUT google. I really don't believe it's a problem with how often bots visit my site.

**webspace** · 02-09-2005, 10:08 PM

This always works.

Buy some text links on PR4 and up home pages. Or even some directory listings, You can get some permanent directory listings for $10 that are often PR5.

If you have a few links into your site that are from PR4 and higher pages Google will find and index your website.

Right or wrong, This has never failed for me, I have 10 sites that are in Google.

I do recemend paying directory inclusion fees rather than renting sponsored text links. Mostly because the directory listings are free for life after you pay the review fee and secondly because you won't get penalized for which sites link to you as you might be with renting sponsored links.

**rutul** · 02-16-2005, 03:35 AM

In order to get listed in google, your website should be optimized. First, You should optimize your website. You should have more pages having good content. And these pages should have enough internal & external links. You can go for link exchange. The keywords should be repeated in content.

**MacGD016** · 08-16-2007, 03:45 PM

It was a couple years ago that I posted asking for some help getting my first website indexed by Google. I now have three; www.esterel.co.uk www.competa.org.uk and www.walkinspain.co.uk and I believe that the single most important thing that helps to get good rankings are out going links. I am sure that incoming links are better but they are harder to produce but I found that as soon as I added out going links to some good quality sites my rankings improved no end

**Learning Newbie** · 08-16-2007, 03:47 PM

And you pulled up a 2.5 year old thread to tell us this?

**gringo** · 08-16-2007, 04:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MacGD016

I found that as soon as I added out going links to some good quality sites my rankings improved no end

Therefore adding outbound links leads to higher rankings, of course! A rigorous experiment conducted under strict clinical conditions if ever I saw one.

I'm joking.

Outbound links have no effect on rankings, nor should they.