Comments on: Why does my website not show up in Google?

By: Mark McNeece

Mark McNeece — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:21:20 GMT

Hi Retha

I've checked your site, which I see is a Joomla based site. You might want to improve your home page title which is currently just "Home", and the same for the other pages too.

You also have some redundant meta tags there, such as the robots tag. You don't need to use this if you want the page indexed and for the bots to follow links on the page.

As for why it's not been indexed yet, I can't see any reason why it wouldn't be. If it's a very new site, just about the only thing that would help it to get indexed a little faster is if there were links to the site from other sites on the web. The hope would be that Google would follow the links from the other sites and discover your site. This is Google's preferred method of finding and indexing new sites.

Even if you do nothing, you should find that it is indexed within the next 2 - 4 weeks maximum, which is about as long as it can take to happen.

Hang in there!

By: Retha Weir

Retha Weir — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:56:42 GMT

I have a similar problem, I created a website about two weeks ago but can only find it on the web by typing in the URL. I have used the method above to try and see if it has been indexed, but can not find it their either. How do I get my site indexed? I have listed many keywords as meta tags and have started to submit my site to some of the search engines but still can not find my site. www.completenvironmental.co.za Thanks

By: Mark McNeece

Mark McNeece — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:50:46 GMT

Hi Mitchell

Your site has been indexed by Google. It shows 68 pages indexed to be specific. You can check this using the "site:" directive. ie. In a google search box, type:
site:inspirerealestate.com

It might not be ranking very well, but it's definitely indexed.

By: Mitchell Causey

Mitchell Causey — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:00:16 GMT

I get the fact that yahoo and bing are different than google, but I still don't know how get indexed in the search listings on google without using quotation marks (we are indexed if you use quotation marks!)... anyone have a guess? Thanks!

By: Mark McNeece

Mark McNeece — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:51:22 GMT

Thanks Debra!

It's true, there's so much information out there on SEO, it can become confusing. The truth though, is that it's all really quite simple, and fairly obvious stuff.

Best of luck with your sites!

By: Debra Zavaleta

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