Is your site indexed on Google after all?
Back to some basics today.
For all novices out there – Do you know if your site is indexed on Google?
Meaning – Is your site recognized by Google? Or Do your site appear on Google search results?
Not sure? Okay goto www.google.com/yahoo.com/msn and search for site:www.yourdomain.com
If it gives a result like – “Site not found”, then it means that your site is not in the Google index.
If it is there in the Google site index, then the search would give you pages from your site only.
If it shows some results as “Supplemental index” – read this article on how to deal with supplemental results.
If your site is not indexed, here’s what you should do.
1- Get your site indexed to google by submitting to Google.(using http://www.google.com/addurl.htm)
2 – Get someone with a decent PR and reputation at Google(Not adult/spammy sites) link to you.
I’d recommend option2 rather than 1 for more than one reason.
- Google takes very long time to get indexed by this method.
- There is no guarantee.
- You can’t rely on this method.
Method 1 is the best way to get indexed on Google, and I’ve talked about it here earlier.
If you think the number of pages on Google is not the actual number of pages you have on your site/blog, then you may want to consider submitting a sitemap to Google using this method.
I think they are confused about indexing and search engine ranking. You can be indexed but with no ranking you will not receive any traffic.
Mr Cheap
thanks for your guide,
i have few results for my site in yahoo search,
how to get more from yahoo search?
any guide posted before?
Hi, Well basically just follow the Google SEO guidelines, Yahoo will follow it. The results however should be far better on Yahoo. i.e you’ll have more backlinks listed, better (but weird) ranks etc. Stick to Google optimisation and MSN and Yahoo will follow pursuit.
Hi Mani,
I have a weird problem.
When i do a site:www.gettingmoneywise.blogspot.com
i dont get anything but when i do
site:gettingmoneywise.blogspot.com,i get all the results that i should.
Is it ok or not.If not how do i go about it
Hi Ankit, Well, that’s because the right URL is http://gettingmoneywise.blogspot.com and not http://www.gettingmoney….So you might want to use site:http://gettingmoneywise.blogspot.com always.