Are you indexed by Google? Well, JohnnyCoder.com isn’t. Here’s the thing. The URL was submitted a while ago, but it hasn’t made a lick of difference. But I shouldn’t be surprised since Google is very up-front about how they handle submissions.
We add and update new sites to our index each time we crawl the web, and we invite you to submit your URL here. We do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear.
As you can see, Google doesn’t make any promises.
So, what else can I do? Well, I’ve started sending influential thoughts Google‘s way. When I’m feeling particularly positive, I hold my breath and check if my site’s status has mysteriously improved. This is done by executing the following Google site search. Of course, the outcome is always the same:
Your search – site:www.johnnycoder.com – did not match any documents.
Suggestions:
- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
- Try different keywords.
- Try more general keywords.
And as you can see, along with promises, Google doesn’t make any suggestions. (No helpful ones at least.)
I haven’t given up on Google yet. I’m sure they will start indexing my site when they are good and ready. After all, they are the search kings and they must know what they are doing. In fact, I’m sure it’s not them. It must be me and what I’m not doing. But I really didn’t know what to do so I have started to do some research. I found that most sites provide teasers. It’s helpful information, but not too helpful — if you know what I mean. The sites may say to submit your URL to Google (as I have already done.) Otherwise, their advice is to leave search engine submission and optimization to the experts and purchase their service for only $99 annually.
At least Submitside.com collected search engine “Add URL” and put them all in one place. They also recommend submitting only to the following: Google, Yahoo! and MSN. And only if you are plenty of time should one submit to these smaller engines — Rex, Infotiger, Netsearch Voyager, ExactSeek, LinkCentre, HotRate, TrueSearch, WhatsNu, LookSeek Susy (South Africa), Walhello.com, Dirs.org and Wisenut. They also list a number of engines which one should NOT bother with since many providers actually “power” others and submissions would be redundant.
Most everyone is an agreement. Submitting your site is not enough. Indexing will take up to 8 weeks (if at all) and this alone is not enough to start getting visitors. Being in the top search results depends mostly (but not only) on popularity of your site and a new site is not popular at all. So you need a different strategy.
One approach is to increase the number of links to your site from more popular sites. I suppose this could be done through the use of Technorati or by simply adding comments which link back to your site on other peoples’ blogs. Or by simply begging a popular site owner to add a reference to your site.
Arguably, the best strategy is to “buy” traffic through paid listings. This unique form of search engine advertising means that you can be guaranteed to appear in the top results for the terms you are interested in within a day or less. If you wish to build visibility quickly it is agreed that this is the way to go.
SearchEngineWatch provided a really nice breakdown of this information. They suggest that any site owner established a search engine submission budget. This is true whether you’re running a commercial web site, a hobbyist site in your own time or a site for a nonprofit organization. They suggest you first submit to Yahoo’s human-compiled directory for one year. This is a flat rate of $300 annually. They believe this provides the most bang for your buck merely because this is potentially one of the best links you can gain to influence crawlers. If you need to be listed fast, however, they suggest one use paid placement programs as well. A $50 budget for Overture (which is now Yahoo! Search Marketing) and a $25 budget for Google will last about a month. SearchEngineWatch does claim you can get listed without spending a penny, but if you want to be seen in as many places as possible, as quickly as possible, you will want to use the combination of submissions which they outlined above.
So far only about half of the articles I’ve read are even interesting, but I have learned the difference between directories (like Yahoo!) and crawlers (like Google, Ask and MSN.) And I’ve learned about paid listings like Overture and Google AdWords and I have learned a bit about how search engines work when it comes to page rankings and who feeds who. I’m learning, but not even dangerous yet. Unless someone has an extra $375 to fund my search engine submission budget?
Google certainly is a strange beast. I found that my site appeared as a home page only after a couple of weeks, disappeared again a month later and only really started getting indexed properly after three months. Never found a reason why. Some customers we have get a similar result, others are fully indexed in a matter of weeks; always without paying for position.
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I have similar problem. Only, I know my pages are indexed by Google. It’s a bit weird, isn’t it? Well, all right, Google knows about “site:thelandofintellect.org” but it doesn’t know about any links toward this site. On the other hand, if you just type “the land of intellect”, you’ll see all those links. Odd.
And, yes, of course… Johnny, come and see The Land of Intellect. You seem to be an intelligent guy. This website is merely developed but it think is already worth having a look. Tell me what you think.
Damn it… There’s no way to edit my posts… And I am to swift, I must admit. Anyway, I think one of the backdoors is putting GoogleAds to your site. Google has to SEE you to show any adds.
If it’s any consolation – certainly it provides a nice touch of irony – I found this blog on Google while trying to determine why http://www.letzgoout.com, which absolutely is indexed by Google, shows no results when searching for links to my site from other sites with the “link:www.letzgoout.com” search.
When I include ‘www.’ in the site:www.rustremoverproducts.com, it returns “Your search – site:www.rustremoverproducts.com – did not match any documents.” When I remove ‘www.’ there are 17 results returned. My other two sites work either way. Also, neither way works for the ‘link’ tool. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Lee
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Have you noticed this?
“We do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear.”
Here we go again. I wrote and it went because the e-mail adress did not register. checking now
Working:
After my original website lost all the text by my fumbling attempts to get a n hit counter,I created three websites with different agencies, each which expected the URL to be responsive
immediately, which did not happen.
Any l helpful advice was no forthcoming, or was too complex to follow.
It would appear that your comment on the long wait for the websites to register on Google are applicable
P.S.You might like the book “Metaphysics and The New Age”.It is up for a free read through this menu.
Regards,
Peter
I have also same results with my site even though I have many backlinks listed in yahoo.
Im having the same problem with http://craig-allan.x10.mx/. i think google should make this an easier process for newbies!
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