Get Google to notice your site?

[DocGreen]

So I've been working on my SEO, and read that Googling "Site: [your site here]" tells you all the pages that Google has indexed on your site. I also read that if you modify the date range you can tell how long it has been since your site was indexed. Well... I did just that, and it looks like my site hasn't been indexed since I bought my domain back in March. This presents a problem, because I'm trying to fix my SEO so I can get back to Page 1 on Google.

SO... Now I have to figure out how to get Google's attention so it will re-index my site and (hopefully) improve my ranking. One tip I read was to get as many links into my site as possible (which is one of the reasons I'm writing this post... signature links). Do you folks have any other tips?

 

[Disposable_Me]

Google's not necessarily as omnipotent as it seems, if you've let your site lag, and then all of a sudden make a lot of changes to it, it might take a while for it to be noticed. Update frequencies are determined based on popularity. The more popular you are, the faster your index gets updated, and visa versa.

They've also taken a pretty strong stance against static webpages. If you're not adding new content to it, it's not going to fare as well as a similar site would.

The best way of getting free hits is to post on reddit. Reddit means an instant site visit from google, and a couple hundred clicks guaranteed.

 

[Techmate]

Google is the skynet of the future. I just built a website and I can't get it to show up on Google after submitting it to their crawlers. I don't think that SEO is a problem because I have gone ten pages in and still can't find my site.

 

[Disposable_Me]

Google is the skynet of the future. I just built a website and I can't get it to show up on Google after submitting it to their crawlers. I don't think that SEO is a problem because I have gone ten pages in and still can't find my site.

Does people not noticing your "things" happen often?

 

[hondablaster]

What CMS is being used?

 

[hondablaster]

Actually why dont you post your site so we can check out the SEO.

 

[DocGreen]

Thanks for the help guys. The site is www.pcpitcrewsb.com

It was built with Weebly, mainly because I don't know html and Weebly is integrated with my host, so it was stupid easy to setup. Weebly doesn't let me use many meta keywords, but I've read that Google disregards those now so it may be a moot point.

 

[hondablaster]

You would look at the Google cache to see when your site has been indexed. And all your caches are as old as November 7th and as recent as December 12th.

You may be looking at a post date or modified date, Google is indexing and crawling your site your site like any other.

Make sure you have your sitemap XML loaded into your Google/Bing webmaster tools account.

I think your O.K. I always check my Google cached page after doing some SEO changes to see if Google has seen the change and to find out if that was the reason I went up or down. It can take up to three weeks for Google to recrawl a changed page even if your force a crawl with webmaster tools.

This is Google's cache of http://www.pcpitcrewsb.com/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Dec 6, 2012 20:44:43 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Learn more
Tip: To quickly find your search term on this page, press Ctrl+F or ⌘-F (Mac) and use the find bar.

 

[hondablaster]

Google is the skynet of the future. I just built a website and I can't get it to show up on Google after submitting it to their crawlers. I don't think that SEO is a problem because I have gone ten pages in and still can't find my site.

What is your website.

 

[DocGreen]

You would look at the Google cache to see when your site has been indexed. And all your caches are as old as November 7th and as recent as December 12th.

You may be looking at a post date or modified date, Google is indexing and crawling your site your site like any other.

Make sure you have your sitemap XML loaded into your Google/Bing webmaster tools account.

I think your O.K. I always check my Google cached page after doing some SEO changes to see if Google has seen the change and to find out if that was the reason I went up or down. It can take up to three weeks for Google to recrawl a changed page even if your force a crawl with webmaster tools.

Thanks for looking into that! I spent the evening a couple nights ago fixing some problems I found using Microsoft's SEO Toolkit, but there are still a couple issues that I don't know how to handle:

1- "The page...contains a large (1198 characters) block of embedded CSS code..." Recommended action is to move the code to an externally linked CSS file.

2- "The page contains multiple canonical formats."
Basically it's saying www.pcpitcrewsb.com and pcpitcrewsb.com both work, and that apparently that's bad? idk?

There were quite a few other problems that I managed to fix... broken links, no alt text (or meaningless "default" alt text set by weebly), no H1 tags (weebly set all titles as H2), etc. So hopefully things will be better.

On a side note... I'm starting to think that Weebly sucks.

 

[Techmate]

What is your website.

My website is http://www.techmatellc.com Still not sure how long it takes once the site has been indexed. Thanks for your help.

 

[hondablaster]

Your home page just got indexed yesterday.

This is Google's cache of http://www.techmatellc.com/. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on Dec 25, 2012 18:47:07 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime. Learn more
Tip: To quickly find your search term on this page, press Ctrl+F or ⌘-F (Mac) and use the find bar.

So lets wait about 3 -7 days to see if that initial page blossoms into more being crawled.

This is a fresh new crawl I can tell because you have no pagerank number assigned.

Make sure you have a sitemap.XML and that its loaded into your Google webmaster tools account. If you need something that creates XML sitemaps a good plugin is Wordpress SEO by Yoast OR Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps.

 

[Techmate]

Your home page just got indexed yesterday.



So lets wait about 3 -7 days to see if that initial page blossoms into more being crawled.

This is a fresh new crawl I can tell because you have no pagerank number assigned.

Make sure you have a sitemap.XML and that its loaded into your Google webmaster tools account. If you need something that creates XML sitemaps a good plugin is Wordpress SEO by Yoast OR Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps.

Perfect! Thank you so much for the advice. The plugin definitely helped. Still working on the SEO. Since I am new, it might take a little time for Google to acknowledge my site.