Don’t Get Too Hung Up With Something
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The past few weeks I’ve been toying round with getting some niche affiliate sites going to bring in a steady stream of organic traffic (and revenue hopefully) aside from ppc, ppv and media buys. The reasoning for making a post was because I bought a domain (well I actually owned for about 3months prior), set up wordpress and all of the seo plugins recommended etc.
Began throwing content out and submitted a sitemap to the search engines using one of the plugins (I forgot the exact name). Anyway I began checking the progress each day in between various tasks checking to see if it had been indexed.
Anyway 3 weeks later it hadn’t and I had been trying various ways to get that changed – I’m not a great seo person at the moment so I was a bit clueless. I decided to just move on and make another as I had about 3-5 on my mind I wanted to get sorted, I did the exact same process and after submitting the sitemap – it was indexed the next day.
I guess it doesn’t pay sometimes to get caught up with trying to fix a problem that’s out of your control. I could have just bought another domain and set the first site up on that (which I probably will) to get that one going instead of waiting about for the 3 weeks trying to get this one working.
Any ideas why it hasn’t been indexed within a month? Perhaps the domain was previously banned or blacklisted – I don’t know. Although checking on the way back machine no results come back.
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April 22, 2010 at 12:50 pm
As you say, don’t spend too much time worrying about not being indexed at this stage.
From my experience, Google is placing more and more emphasis on ‘aged’ domains now, and I’m finding it pays to buy domains a few months before planning to do anything with them.
One thing which I find normally gets me indexed pretty quickly though, is submitting some articles to EzineArticles with your links in the resource box.
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Richard Reply:
April 27th, 2010 at 11:13 am
Yeah that’s the next thing I’m going to try after I have created a couple more (which seem to be getting almost instantly
)
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April 22, 2010 at 12:57 pm
hey mate we been discussing this on AIM. It could have been previously banned, its a possibililty but once google realises its a new site, new content then it may come back.
Also try doing some social bookmarks to the site and
submit your RSS feeds to some aggregators. And then ping your feed and also ping the urls of the bookmarks.
also as nick says get some backlinks from some article sites like ezine and article base etc.
Im actually working on some exclusive software which would pretty much automate a backlinking routine
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April 22, 2010 at 12:59 pm
Did you try ping your website ? Submit it to various social bookmarking websites always work for me.
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Richard Reply:
April 27th, 2010 at 11:14 am
Yeah I added a pretty large ping list to wp
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April 22, 2010 at 1:18 pm
There is absolutely no reason why a site would still not be indexed after 3 weeks these days, especially if its a WP blog.
Common mistake is the privacy settings. If you used Fantastico to install WP it sometimes sets your blog to private – which hides it from search engine indexing. Its under Settings -> Privacy.
If thats fine add the site to your google webmaster tools. What does it says?
For yahoo there are odd problems with their crawlers sometimes with some ISPs. In Yahoo Site Explorer add you site is see if you get an error when adding it. If not it will be indexed by yahoo.
In WP add a bunch of ping sites to its list in Settings (just google this, there’s plenty around).
you can also use this:
http://www.pingdevice.com/
ping the main pages.
If should be indexed to the balls at this stage, but if its happening too slow, add it to Digg (ideally get a couple of friends to digg the story) and stumble it. This should have indexed in hours if not minutes.
As has been said above social bookmark to give it a boost too, although its reduntant if you did all the above. But its a good way to start bringing in linkjuice.
If its still not indexed by this point burn that bitch at the stage and throw the ashes to winds, its pure evil and my name is Nancy Howsyourfather.
MuAffiliate
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Richard Reply:
April 27th, 2010 at 11:15 am
Yeah I double checked the privacy settings – I’ve even made a note on my monitor about checking before I leave the site to get indexed
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April 22, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Good point about the WP privacy setting! That still catches me out occasionally.
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April 22, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Hey Richard, I’ve seen this happen to a few people recently with wordpress.
There is one other thing it could be. Have you checked your privacy settings in wp admin?
There is a checkbox under Settings -> Privacy. Which is sometimes set to ‘block search engines’ by default.
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April 22, 2010 at 1:46 pm
I see the same stuff with some of my domains.
Wahtever I tried to do, google still ignores the domain.
I’ve also talked to some guyes who’re facing the same problem with their new domains.
google bastards are the most unreliable and unpredictable, so yes, I agree that sticking to one problem is not the way to succeed.
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April 22, 2010 at 1:58 pm
ah yes, @MicroAffiliate is right, you should check the privacy setting if you are using wordpress.
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April 22, 2010 at 2:23 pm
When i was talking to Rich on Aim i also mentioned the privacy settings and he had already checked them. he also has a nice ping list which i sent him
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April 22, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Hey Richard,
One thing that spammers do is to prevent/block the ‘wayback machine’ from indexing their site. This is actually a signal that the big G will take a look at when reviewing a site to see if the site is spam.
So I might have been a black listed or banned domain but have nothing in the archive.org
Just something to keep in mind.
Peace!
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Richard Reply:
April 27th, 2010 at 11:16 am
Yeah perhaps, I’m not too bothered about it I’m just going to carry on and come back to it down the line.
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April 22, 2010 at 3:08 pm
i already try Ping, RSS, Bookingmarking,Web2.0 and ezinearticle backlink, Yahoo show digg and several backlinks, but google don’t like me. 0 page index
I was thinking, maybe i got Google sandbox due to create too much link. Big surprise, you guys have same issue.
Keep going is right. just pretend to be normal.
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April 23, 2010 at 5:52 am
submit 2 or 3 articles to ezine with links to your site and you will definitely get your blog indexed.hope you are using related posts plugin in that site.
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April 23, 2010 at 10:32 am
Check domain tools history.
Check the server header response because you could have an accidental 500 error (i did it with a $1500 domain)
but in my experience i would just continue moving forward and forget the fact its not indexed because it will at some point.
Read up when John Chow got banned by google and his traffic increased.
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April 25, 2010 at 8:22 am
Hello Richard, I have not seen any new post from you in awhile. Are you still in the game or abandoned ship?
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Richard Reply:
April 27th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Yeah I’m still here grinding (sometimes
), I do apologise the lack of posting I’m having a hard time thinking of things to post about.
I’m sure that will pass soon though
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April 27, 2010 at 7:51 pm
Like some of the comments above getting links from any site that is indexed frequently will get you indexed. Social bookmarking has worked for me as well. Lately, I have been going to ismysiteindexed.com submitting my url, then grabbing that url and then going to pingomatic.com and pinging that url. That worked on about 10 niche sites to get them ranked in the top 20 or so for the low volume term. Some friends of mine actually submit their url through google webmaster tools as well.
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