Okay, so, what am I doing wrong?

ehbowen · #1 (**permalink**) 12-09-2006, 11:03 PM

Reference: Streamliner Schedules web site

So, I've designed my pages for humans and not for search engines. My site architecture is a bit complex, but every page is within three clicks of the home page and I have no hidden or tricky links. While my HTML is messy (an artifact of the editor I'm using), it does validate. I'm not knowingly using any Search Engine Spam techniques; the keywords in my meta tags are all relevant to the content. I generate new sitemaps twice a month and upload them to Google religiously. My site is not static; I try to add new content at least once a week. Finally, my content is by and large unique; so far I haven't found a single site out there doing what I'm doing on anything close to the same scale I am, even though I'm still less than halfway to where I want to be eventually.

And still, Google doesn't seem to know that I exist.

Oh, my main page is indexed; you can google on my website title and the home page comes up. But, so far, none of the primary content (the timetables) seems to be indexed. Using Google's webmaster tools to check my site, only three pages (out of 58) even show up at all and one is a test page which has long since been relocated. And while one timetable does show as being indexed, a google on "timetable Mobile Noxapater" (which should show a hit) returns just nine results, none of which are in any way associated with my site.

Back when I was working out the kinks in my CSS formatting (with the kind help of the members of this forum), the test page did show up on Google's list and in fact, according to my web logs, I got several hits on it as the result of Google searches. But for the past two months--nada. Yahoo is showing several of my pages, as is MSN, but so far I have almost completely managed to elude Google's notice.

I'm not going to obsess over my page rank; as I said, my content is unique enough that it should make a strong showing in any suitably targeted search. But if it's not in their index at all--then what do I do?

Standing by for suggestions, I am....

Webnauts · #2 (**permalink**) 12-10-2006, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by ehbowen

And still, Google doesn't seem to know that I exist.

Google knows that you exist: http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&q...le-Suche&meta=

ehbowen · #3 (**permalink**) 12-10-2006, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Webnauts

Google knows that you exist: http://www.google.com/search?hl=de&q...le-Suche&meta=

That's three pages: the home page, a test page (since moved), and one timetable page. I had 58, as of my last sitemap, and I've added content since then.

Webnauts · #4 (**permalink**) 12-10-2006, 02:33 PM

Google will not index all pages. Google will index only pages which are found relevant. That means, they will pick up pages which are linked from other sites.

You need to start building back links. Try submitting your site i.e to web directories. That would be a good start.

danskapia · #5 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007, 01:42 PM

All that you can do is keep working, don't succumb to shady practices, and wait.

One suggestion is to create an RSS feed of your time tables. After you have done this submit the feed to a few RSS sites. If you do this you can create a custom google button and submit it to their gallery. This may help.

ehbowen · #6 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007, 05:37 PM

Things have gotten better recently. I'm seeing a majority of my pages up under Googles "site:" search, and I'm having more search engine referrer hits showing up (although more from MSN and Yahoo than Google). I'm still trying to chip away at providing more material when I can, although I've cut back recently on the time I spend on the site, as I'm trying to study for a professional license upgrade exam coming up in a couple months.

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is RSS?

Webnauts · #7 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ehbowen

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is RSS?

Check here:
http://www.whatisrss.com/
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html

danskapia · #8 (**permalink**) 02-23-2007, 08:58 PM

Don't know what an RSS feed is? Don't worry neither did I before creating TeleportJobs job feed. An RSS feed stands for (Really Simple Syndication) and is just another way to keep up to date with the latest news using what's called an RSS reader. There are hundreds of RSS readers out there that offer different bells and whistles but all of them basically do the same thing.

I use Mozilla Firefox's Sage. It's a pretty nice reader.

bermuda · #9 (**permalink**) 02-26-2007, 06:18 AM

The topic of getting more and more pages listed by search engines is really what can be the concern for many webmasters.

Certainly, knowing about some points can be helpful, for example, adding more links to the pages you like getting listed, also having a very search engine friendly sitemap too is recommended.

PuneetSeo · #10 (**permalink**) 03-14-2007, 06:04 AM

Are there any more ways to get the inner pages listed in google except RSS ???

Let me know plz if anyone can suggest some.

Regards
Puneet M

yuppicide · #11 (**permalink**) 06-19-2007, 12:22 PM

I use the free version of WebCEO. It submitted my website to about 100 search engines (some from other countries). It showed me which ones were successful and which ones failed.

There is a tool in there that shows me things such as how many of my websites pages the search engine has indexed. It will show me how many pages are in the top 5, top 10, top 20, top 30. It will show me how many pages are indexed compared to last time I ran the software etc.

It will help me find keywords relevant to my website, show me how many daily searches there are for that keyword, etc and determine how much competition there is.

It also helps optimize pages for search engines and shows me things I should do such as placing alt titles on my images, etc.

I'm still not listed high in search engines for keywords I'd like, but it's a learning process. I've only started doing all this a few months ago and since then I've had a lot of progress (such as being listed in a bunch of search engines and more of my pages being indexed).

Allen · #12 (**permalink**) 06-19-2007, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by yuppicide

I use the free version of WebCEO. It submitted my website to about 100 search engines (some from other countries). It showed me which ones were successful and which ones failed.

There is a tool in there that shows me things such as how many of my websites pages the search engine has indexed. It will show me how many pages are in the top 5, top 10, top 20, top 30. It will show me how many pages are indexed compared to last time I ran the software etc.

It will help me find keywords relevant to my website, show me how many daily searches there are for that keyword, etc and determine how much competition there is.

It also helps optimize pages for search engines and shows me things I should do such as placing alt titles on my images, etc.

I'm still not listed high in search engines for keywords I'd like, but it's a learning process. I've only started doing all this a few months ago and since then I've had a lot of progress (such as being listed in a bunch of search engines and more of my pages being indexed).

I would never use a package anymore for se submission. Just create an XML sitemap, point to it in the html, submit it manually to google/yahoo, and be done with it. None of those engines will return any traffic and some can hurt you in google/yahoo.

fruitengine_han · #13 (**permalink**) 07-18-2007, 07:37 AM

keep it up.. i think you need a lot of backlinks in order to gain traffics...

admin note: removed the spam links which were attempted to look as tho they were a sig. Sorry bud you need to be a community member to have a sig.

packshoes · #14 (**permalink**) 07-28-2007, 02:54 AM

I have the same problem as you have.

I think sometimes google are not able to recongize on this

my website is http://www.packshoes.com

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