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Re: google won't index my site

by Andrea B. - 11/17/04 2:32 AM

In Reply to: google won't index my site by frankzxcv

I by "lack of offical html header" you mean you have not page title, keywords, doctype, and whatever else SHOULD be at the top of any html page, then yes, that could very well be part of the reason.

Also, one of the things Google looks at is how many other pages are linking to a site.

A link would help so we can look and see what you have right now - and it'd be one more link towards that google goal.

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here's the url

by frankzxcv - 11/17/04 8:58 PM

In Reply to: Re: google won't index my site by Andrea B.

thanks for your concern -- here's the site:

http://www.jessicalockemusic.com

note I just added this part at the top:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" />

to my knowledge no one has linked to it. I suppose I could do that myself.

thenewly added code above is from my own homepage and I am indexed up the wazoo- thanks --fj

PS note I have not run it thru the html checker -- too depressing! - fj

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Re: here's the url

by Andrea B. - 11/18/04 4:52 PM

In Reply to: here's the url by frankzxcv

Run it through the checker - it's not as bad as you think - and it tells you what you need to fix.

And note that you also have 2 <body> tags.

Bad code may be another reason google isn't finding you - and if you just now added the top part - it'll take a month or so before the google spider comes back around.

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Re: google won't index my site

by aggie - 12/3/04 5:16 PM

In Reply to: Re: google won't index my site by Andrea B.

Help! Google won't index http://www.credit-card-processing-now.com. What is goin on? We have had the site up since August and still nothing. Let me know what ya think?

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Just a thought.

by R. Proffitt - 11/17/04 5:18 AM

In Reply to: google won't index my site by frankzxcv

Does your site pass a html validity checker?

Such as W3C's or others at http://www.htmlhelp.com/links/validators.htm

A friend had that issue, but their code had far too many errors. They (for some time) always thought that if it looks fine in IE/NS/FF/TS/TA/TB then the code was fine.

Bob

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simmilar prob

by artfullDODGER33 - 4/3/10 4:18 AM

In Reply to: Just a thought. by R. Proffitt

Google will not index site [first site I have done]

http://www.johnmcdowallmotors.99k.org
or
http://www.johnmcdowallmotors.99k.org/index.html

not sure exactly what URL they want so I submited both

[maybe this link will help]

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Which doesn't answer my question.

by R. Proffitt - 4/4/10 7:09 AM

In Reply to: simmilar prob by artfullDODGER33

I wonder if I was unclear here. YOU have to check the web site. I don't do that for you. Sorry if that sounds uncaring but I only offer what others (and I) have found to help.
Bob

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simmilar prob

by artfullDODGER33 - 4/4/10 7:13 PM

In Reply to: Which doesn't answer my question. by R. Proffitt

OK thanks for assist I have just today validated the site and it now passes the validity checker at W3C validate[1 warning remains on three.html...but all pages now passed]...so hopefully it will now be indexed by the search engines.

any further suggestions
I have:
Validated[google html code in homepage, also have the google analytics code , analysis shows no visits from any bots/spiders]
Submitted URL+Sitemap
keywords and robot "all" done

As far as I can see I have done all regular suggestions

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Indexing in google

by seozen - 5/14/10 2:47 AM

In Reply to: simmilar prob by artfullDODGER33

Try to check broken links too.If still your site is not indexed then check for Google sandbox and resubmit it to Google in that way....Go to this link http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl and resubmit your url to be indexed.

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