My Google Results

mikem1986

Why isnt my website showing up in google?

I submitted it to google several times, im averaging 100 visits a day and i think its coded quite well.

When i put in my website name, just 1 page comes up and the other 3 are for message boards like this where ive put my domain name in for other help? Its really annoying!

This is the link here i didnt want to type it because i dont want another message board page showing up when i type in my url into google

Cheers

MBNewB

Whois shows:

Created: 2008-07-31

If this is true then its simply be more patient.. It can take a long time to get listed there.

Mean while make sure you have a sitemap submitted with google sitemaps. Seems to help but no guarantee of ever getting in to be honest so just give it time

iviv

Linking to it will be enough for the spiders to catch it

Also, I'm fairly sure google ranks pages on how often they are mentioned and linked to from other sites?
Also, do you have robots.txt blocking your site accidently?

[Deleted User]

Might be worth spending some time reading this page on Google all about page rankings;

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8524

MBNewB

Also worth forcing the www. at the start of the domain to avoid duplicate content.

People and robots can access your site using both yoursite.co.uk and www.yoursite.co.uk which results in duplicate content being indexed and you get penalised for this.

Are you familiar with the .htaccess file in the root folder of your webhosting?

Put this in there:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.your_domain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.your_domain.com/$1 [R=301]

Changing your_domain.com for your domain name obviously

This will redirect all requests to the non-www version of your site to the www version using 301 Permanent redirect which will make the search engines to index your site only using the www.your_domain.com URL. In this way you will avoid a duplicate content penalty. The more little things you do the better for ranking

mikem1986

i know im being slightly impatient but my other site was completey linked all over within a day, i dont have a robots.txt

ive linked back and forth frommy design site and the new site and placed it on wikipedia references and various directory listings

maybe i am just being impatient

im still curious as to why when you put the domain in google, 1 random page from the site comes up and not the main home page

MBNewB

Its just not fully indexed yet, give it time and if you are getting 100 hits a day it will get to you don't worry

Just concentrate on tweaks and let google take care of itself

mikem1986

i do have a sitemap on there

funny but i just noticed i dont have a .htaccess file on this website

i do on my other website though, both are hosted with the same company etc?

MBNewB

You can create your own using notepad...

When you go to save the file use save as and in the drop down at the bottom for save as type change it to all files then save as the filename .htaccess. Upload this to your root folder with the web host

Once you have made the changes and uploaded the file you can test it by trying to access your website using yoursite.co.uk without the www. and it should force your browser to the www. version.

mikem1986

thanks MB

ive done that now and added it to the root folder

mikem1986

what your saying is if people try and access

http://sitename.co.uk

the htaccess file auto redirects to https://www.sitename.co.uk

and i dont get penalised?