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Google not indexing a site ?

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  • 22-11-2008 3:14pm
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    BenjAii
    Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭


    Having submitted a site to google via webmaster tools & having verified it, and also having submitted it via google local, I'm a bit concerned it isn't showing up in Google yet ? Though to be fair it's only been 4 days.

    The one thing I haven't done is submitted a sitemap in XML format (mainly because the site is small) - could that be holding it back.

    I also had the site live for about a month with a robots.txt file asking for it not to be indexed, wondering is that hindering things now ?


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    jhegarty
    Registered Users Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭jhegarty


    Get a few back links , and give it about 2 weeks....


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    link8r
    Closed Accounts Posts: 387 ✭✭link8r


    The sitemap may help it index more of the files - it also gets the site into the crawlbot. I got one of my sites indexed in 4 days for a new domain but old domains that haven't had anything bar a holding page can take longer. Go build backlinks and research SEO.

    Google can often index a site faster from following a link in a high PR/news site/highly indexed site.

    There are a number of checks you can do. Google has a Status Wizard. Also, you can check your server visitor stats if you have them. Any Googlebot traffic should show up. Google may come-a-sniffing in greater numbers before your site shows up in the search results.

    You can also search like this "mysite.com" or site:mysite.com

    In your webmasters, you can check the index or crawl rate - if you start seeing activity you can be sure that your site should show in a couple of days


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    BenjAii
    Closed Accounts Posts: 545 ✭✭✭BenjAii


    Thanks for the suggestions, google picked the site up 5 days after submitting it. SEO building from now will be based on keywords and inbound links.


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