Google Not Finding my site

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Hi can anyone help please. I have searched for my site on google and this is not coming up. I have analytics on my site which is fine and the site is verified I'm just mistified how come I cannot see my site when searching on google any ideas please much appreciated

clairec
 
jereme replied on at Permalink Reply
jereme
Hi,

It's possible that google hasn't picked up your site because you're not linked to from any sites that google currently indexes.

You can work around this by using Google Webmaster Tools:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools...

In the Tasks section of your concrete5 website, there is a task for generating a sitemap.xml file. After you have run this task you should be able to navigate to:

http://<URL_TO_YOUR_CONCRETE5>/sitemap.xml...

This is the sitemap you will want to submit to Google Webmaster Tools. Yahoo! can also accept this format.

One of the best things you can do for yourself is to get linked up a few sites that are already indexed by google. Even putting a link on your facebook or linkedin page can help.

I hope this points you in the right direction.
clairec replied on at Permalink Reply
clairec
Hi Jereme, Thanks for your help on this.

This is why I am a bit confused I have sites linked then linked backed also I have run the sitemap and submitted this to google from the beginning also when I have added a few pages I have run/submitted this again. Driving me insane as I can't see any problems. Does google crawl site only once a week as a standard setup?
jereme replied on at Permalink Reply
jereme
How long as your site been operational?

Can you share the URL?

It can take google quite awhile to perform the initial index.
clairec replied on at Permalink Reply
clairec
the url is gothinkdesign.com not really had any problems before with any other sites just somehow won't index the main url
frz replied on at Permalink Reply
frz
i like your site, you should submit it to the showcase.

google webmaster tools will actually tell you the last time it indexed your site, what it found, etc.. what's it say?
clairec replied on at Permalink Reply
clairec
There's plenty left to do however! Apparently crawled my site again 3 hours ago if i have that right following the robots txt
jereme replied on at Permalink Reply
jereme
If I search for a phrase from you site I get results.

http://tinyurl.com/yecw29q

You can also use a google site search to see what pages are indexed in google.

http://tinyurl.com/ybnejvt

So now I'm curious, what search strings are you trying to use to find your site?
jereme replied on at Permalink Reply
jereme
Searching google for "go think design" returns gothinkdesign.co.uk as the first result. Consequently, I cannot get this page to load.

Is this your primary domain? Is it possible that it's the domain google is trying to index you through?

Maybe way off, but I thought I'd throw it out there.
clairec replied on at Permalink Reply
clairec
will check this out with them. I own this domain also but don't want to perform a redirect on this just yet. Checked google account deffo .com Im trying to index .co is already sorted. Just noticed on google it s not indexing any urls from sitemep either gosh getting worse this one! big sorrrry
hereNT replied on at Permalink Reply
hereNT
When I search for Go Think Design the first hit is gothinkdesign.co.uk, which doesn't actually load for me. Should that be mapped to gothinkdesign.com? Could be part of the issue...
SeanBrogan replied on at Permalink Reply
SeanBrogan
http://www.google.co.uk/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-GBGB342GB342&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site:gothinkdesign.com

Looks all good to me! 133 pages indexed (take into account a lot of that is back end)

Edit:
http://www.gothinkdesign.com/projects... is your home page?
pixelfish replied on at Permalink Reply
pixelfish
If not then i had the same problem once. submit it as "yordomain.com"not "www.yourdomain.com.

Re submit without www. and it will sort it out.