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

By: Mark McNeece

Mark McNeece — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:35:23 GMT

Hi Daniel

A blog site is subtly different from an ordinary website (brochure type website) in the way information and content is presented.

I think you would be better served with a brochure style website.

However, I checked to see how often your key phrase appears on your home page. It's just 6 times. With all the content you have on your home page, that means your key phrase isn't really standing out as being the main focus of the page. As I said though, as it's a blog site, I think you'll struggle to achieve the right level of keyword density.

It might help a little to mention it in your meta description though, which is currently blank.

All the best,
Mark

By: Daniel Yeo

Daniel Yeo — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:33:49 GMT

Sorry, in my last post, I forgot to let everyone know that my website is HTTP://H2PHYSICS.BLOGSPOT.COM Very much appreciate it if anyone can help...

By: Daniel Yeo

Daniel Yeo — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:31:03 GMT

Hi I need help badly! I have been trying to understand this SEO thing and tried re-writing my web, using some key words, etc. The problem: I want search engine (esp google and yahoo) to be able to pick up query on "Physics Tuition" but it is not doing so. Other words are OK, such as "H2 Physics", "JC physics Tuition" and so on. Can someone help, please. Thanks.

By: brendan moore

brendan moore — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:08:35 GMT

Just to get back to you on this problem i think ive sorted it, ive done what it says, i googled the problem, so im gona paste it below for anyone else to see

This is called a ‘canonical issue’, and creates a problem for search engines. And if search engines have a problem with you then they’re less likely to rank your website highly.

The problem is this.

Because your homepage exists on two different URLs, Google isn’t sure which is your ‘main’ homepage. Therefore, when deciding where to rank your website in the Search Engine Results Page, it dithers between the two, and ranks both – but very low down.

The links on your website serve as pointers to direct search engines around your website. The page with the most links pointing to it is usually the homepage. But if your homepage is basically split into two different places, half the links will probably point to one, and the rest to the other. This means that ‘power’ of those links is split in two – effectively halved.

There is a solution to this problem (that you didn’t know you had!)

What you need to to is to designate 1 version of your homepage as the ‘main’ one, and automatically point all the link power from the other to the main one.

In order to do this you need to buy a domain name, or use the domain you’ve already registered. When setting up your domain name to be your main website address (IE getting rid of the ‘webeden.co.uk’ bit) you go to:

Admin –> Site addresses –>Add site address

The dialogue box looks like this:

Enter your domain name here as your site address. BUT make sure you enter it both WITH and WITHOUT the ‘www’ on two separate lines. Then all you need to do is designate one version – the WWW one – as your main ‘preferred’ site address.

Once this is done, anyone and any search engine trying to get on your website by typing your domain name with the ‘WWW’ will automatically be forwarded to the version with the ‘WWW’

And thats it.

((THERE WAS A PICTURE WITH THIS BUT IT WOULDNT LET ME PASTE IT IN )) HOPE THIS HELPS SOMEONE OUT THERE

By: Mark McNeece

Mark McNeece — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:28:19 GMT

Hi Brendan

Sorry, I'm not familiar with "webeden". So I checked out their site and support system. It doesn't look like there is any mechanism for addressing canonical URL issues. In fact, I noticed they actually gave instructions on creating multiple DNS 'A' records which will actually cause part of the problem.

I suspect your not going to be in a position to do anything about the problem, but webeden themselves are the people you need to talk to about it. I would be interested to know how you get on though?

Best
Mark

By: brendan moore

brendan moore — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:12:28 GMT

Hi Mark

Yes i googled what you meant (canonical URL issues) you see i made the site with webeden and they recently changed there consul and ive been right through it and there used to be a section where you could oint your domain name to a choice of 3 ....http://address or http://www. and another way but i cant get the choices up anymore ?? how would i solve that problem ??

Thanks

By: Mark McNeece

Mark McNeece — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:38:52 GMT

Hi Brendan

Google often favours new sites / pages for short time when they are just launched.

I'm not sure what you would like to hear to be honest? There's a number of things about the site that are not quite right. You have canonical URL issues (there's more than 1 URL for your home page); I found an tag in your home page source but cannot find the text on the page - is it cloaked? How many back links does the site have?

Sorry I can't give you just 1 specific answer. It rarely works that way. To do well on Google there's a number of things you need to do correctly. Plus of course, how well your site ranks will depend on not just the content on your site, but the competition too and a number of off-page factors.

Regards
Mark

By: brendan moore

brendan moore — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:38:10 GMT

I have made a quick website for my nephew and put it on google and it flashed upp for a few days and climbed to 2nd position and the totaly dissapeared, i have waited now 6 months and still the same ?? Can you have a look and try and point me in the right direction because it has totally lost me, i know a little bit about website but consider myself a novice

By: Mark McNeece

Mark McNeece — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:41:58 GMT

Hello Erica

I've had a quick look at your site. It looks like you've built your site using the Mr Site system. Is that right?

The Mr Site system is potentially fine, although not great for SEO purposes. There's a few things about your site that would be improved by an SEO service, like page titles, meta descriptions, keywords, etc... however, I suspect your site is just very new. When did it launch? Within the last 6 weeks? If that's the case, you need to be patient and wait, or speed it along by getting some inbound links to your site.

I did also notice something wrong in your HTML source, but it's not something that would prevent your site from being indexed. You have a 1 pixel image tied to a Mr Site hit counter mechanism that actually falls outside of your closing HTML tag. Whilst this shouldn't prevent the site from being indexed, it will be flagged as a poorly constructed site and almost guarantee your site gets hit by the sandboxed effect.

Otherwise, you're site looks nice, for a budget site.

Feel free to give me a call (details on contact page) if you would like to have a quick chat about your site.

Regards
Mark

By: Erica Bethray

Erica Bethray — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:00:29 GMT

Hi, I have a problem being found on google, yahoo and bing. All 3 of which i have given my details too. Even when i put the Http in nothing comes up. Is there anything i can do to improve being found? Thank you for your help

Erica

By: Mark McNeece

Mark McNeece — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:39:28 GMT

Hi Sigit,

Your website has been well indexed by Google. I'm not familiar with your language, but it looks like most of your pages have a very similar meta description. Each page should have a unique Title as well as a unique Meta Description that describes what a user will find on that page if he visits it.

Do you have any specific problems or questions?

Regards
Mark

By: Sigit Sugiharto

Sigit Sugiharto — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:10:26 GMT

Comment on Why does my website not show up in Google?

By: Mark McNeece

Mark McNeece — Mon, 09 May 2011 11:28:33 GMT

Hi Sophia

2 things about your site are slightly different from the norm.

The first thing I notice is that your site is declared as HTML 5. I would assume this is no problem at all for Google, but I can't be certain as it's a Beta document type.

The other thing I notice is that your site at the .co.uk address is just a frameset that loads your content from a .com address. That's not so good. It would be better to have the .co.uk address use a 301 redirect to the true address to avoid any canonical URL issues. That said, Google won't be able to index your site at the .co.uk address in the normal way, and it's not the address you should use to market your site as it stands, because that's not where your site resides.

I also notice that your home page title and description are extremely poor. The title is just the web address, and the description is the same without the hyphens. There's no real description at all of what a user will find on your home page. I didn't check, but I assume that will be the same throughout your site?

I'm sorry if any of this appears confusing. I can see you've spent a great deal of time and effort on this site. Please feel free to call me directly during office hours and I'll happily explain and walk you through the issues I found.

Best,
Mark McNeece.

By: sophia grant

sophia grant — Mon, 09 May 2011 07:52:23 GMT

Hello,

I created my Blog about 2 weeks ago and it is still not indexed, hence reason for no traffic! Can you help please? I have added the relevant metatags. The site is: www.dresses-with-sleeves.co.uk.

Thank you.

By: Mark McNeece

Mark McNeece — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:37:28 GMT

Hi Abhi

The thing to remember about Google is that it's a crawler based search engine. That means it's preferred method of finfing new content & pages is by following links to those pages. If you're site is brand new or has no inbound links, it can take longer for Google to find and index it.

I don't think you have anything to worry about if it's a brand new site. Just be extra patient.

- Mark

By: Abhi Chhawcharia

Abhi Chhawcharia — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:06:19 GMT

Hi Mark, Thanks for the prompt reply. I had already added the website the above URL and still my website does not show up in google. Not even when I paste the URL of my website in google. Right now my website is still complete and has just a small form to contact me. Also does the crawl of the website in the googles index search depends on the traffic that my website it getting, cause as of now its just me thats visiting the website. Thanks for all the information Mark, Abhi

By: Mark McNeece

Mark McNeece — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:41:06 GMT

Hi Abhi

If the site is very new, you could try using the tool at www.google.com/addurl.

Google will likely pick your site up in time, but it will happen faster if there are links to your site from other websites.

- Mark

By: Abhi Chhawcharia

Abhi Chhawcharia — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:50:31 GMT

Hi, My friend created a website today and we are not able to find it on google search. I am not able to find it in google by even searching for the complete URL. But I can open the website by the URL in browser. Also the site does not have much information on it yet, just a small contact us box. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Abhi

By: fani vogiatzi

fani vogiatzi — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:09:56 GMT

at least l managed to see that my site has been indexed, so l guess its a question of improving ranking

By: Victor Fama

Victor Fama — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:11:56 GMT

Hi, so my site, bestrefrigeratorreviews.net, was climbing steadily in the Serps, then disappeared yesterday. I run RankChecker, and it's not in Google at all. Not on page 1, page 10, or any page at all-it's blank. I checked Google analytics, and it shows I've gotten 0 visits since I put it up-a big flat line. So I knew something was wrong, and yes, I never installed the analytics code. Do you think this is the problem? What else could make a site completely disappear? The site is still indexed...

By: Henry Armitage

Henry Armitage — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 07:07:12 GMT

I love it when a post on SEO is as informative as this. Thank you so much. :)

By: John Bona

John Bona — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:43:02 GMT

I have a website 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. How do I get my site out there? where do I listed keywords?
Thanks.

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!

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