Getting Pages Indexed

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   andyozposted 12 years ago

   I recently created my first ever website.  Was just a bit of fun to see what exactly is involved and to see if I can pull in any traffic.  It took about a week for the site to get indexed.  As of yet though not of the pages on my site seem to be indexed by Google.  I have the main homepage then 3 seperate pages at the moment.  It's been two weeks since I created the first additional page.  Anyone know if I am doing anything wrong?  Will the extra pages get indexed?  How long might it take?  Any help greatly appreciated.

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      BRIAN SLATERposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      andy, try adding your new site to your profile page so people can take a look. My pages were added almost immediately, fresh content to google is normally indexed within hours. Are you sure about this?

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         andyozposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Hi Brian, thanks for the reply.  OK have added a link into my profile page.  I am pretty sure the pages are not indexed.  Is there any way I can check this?  Have already tried a few methods, maybe I'm not checking properly.  But I would say I'm 99% sure they are not indexed.

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            BRIAN SLATERposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Just had a look at your site, you have 4 pages in total is that correct. I copied and pasted your url into google for you. To add any pages to google just type in the google search box - add website to google and you are requested to add your url and copy a ding bat, thats all there is to it.

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               andyozposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Cheers Brian, will give that a try.  And yes, there are four pages altogether.

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                  andyozposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Just tried doing what you said.  Where I add the URL it say that I only need to add the top-level page, I don't need to add every web page.  So should I try submitting my main page again, or try adding speciifc pages even though I'm asked not to do that?

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                     BRIAN SLATERposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                     Andy you need only enter the url of the name of your site, this is in your case the first page, any subsequent pages written will then be automatically added and indexed. When any searcher finds your site they can then see what I saw when I looked and go to your other pages if they want to. From what I'm looking at you don't have a problem.

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                        andyozposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        Cheers Brian, thanks for your help.

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      alisha4uposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Hey andyoz,
      
      You can use Google webmaster tool for your site.
      There are lots of thing which helps you to track the crawl error, XML sitemap submission and may more things.
      Try that!

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   Hauntyposted 12 years ago

   Submit your site to SEs. Normally, it should take no more than 2 days to get a page indexed.

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   CMHypnoposted 12 years ago

   Put a link to your website in your profile and then we could take a look?
   
   You could ping your pages, create backlinks to them, tweet them etc
   
   A new site needs all the exposure you can get - you could find other blogs on a similar topic and offer to write guest posts etc

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   andyozposted 12 years ago

   That's not a bad idea, will post a link on my profile page.  Have a few links up there already, although they are to my main page and not the individual pages.  How do I submit a page to a search engine?

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      Hauntyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Here is how to submit a sitemap.
      http://www.google.com/support/sites/bin … wer=100283

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         andyozposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Ok, sorry I'm a little slow on the uptake here.  What is a sitemap?

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      IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Nice clean looking site, Andy! Well done!

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         andyozposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks Izzy.  Not bad for a first try!  :-)

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   recommend1posted 12 years ago

   register your site with    at​tracta.com   they do everything for you and for free.   Works really well until you make some money then you have to pay for it - but if you are making it because they get you indexed and crawled continuously then . . .

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      theherbivorehippiposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Agree!  I use Attracta for my sites.  Makes things easy!

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   khmohsinposted 12 years ago

   Link building and quality contents for website is very important to get index fast in Google you also need to update website regularly to improve ranking

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   Niki Hamptonposted 12 years ago

   This is a great questions. I am checking out Attracta myself right now.

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   thisisoliposted 12 years ago

   Google Webmaster Tools is all you realy need to look in to imo.

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      andyozposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Cheers Oli, that's another thing I need to look into.

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   andyozposted 12 years ago

   Ok, have signed up to Attracta, used goodle Webmaster tools and still not seen my pages indexed.  Any more advice?  Am swiftly running out of ideas!

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    psycheskinnerposted 12 years ago

    How are you checking whether your sites are indexed?

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       andyozposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       I go to my site, click on the page I'm checking, copy the URL at the top of the page, paste it into google and search.  I get the homepage up, but not the individual pages.

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