View Full Version : Can anyone help?
justong
08-20-2006, 04:19 AM
I do not know anywhere else to turn for help. I have 2 websites listed in Google. Neither one have pages index by google except the home page. Both websites have more than 100 pages. I am having the same problem with all the other major search engines as well. Does anyone have any ideas to why this may be? Can anyone pm me and take a look at my websites or let me know where I may go for help please.
Marcia
08-20-2006, 04:51 AM
justong, welcome to SEW Forums.
Do you have any decent inbound links to the site?
PhilC
08-20-2006, 09:15 AM
Are the sites actually crawlable? If it's the same with both sites, and across the main search engines, the sites may not be crawlable.
Robert_Charlton
08-20-2006, 03:51 PM
Additional questions... How long have the home pages been indexed in Google? Are the sites about the same or different topics? Is their content unique or do they duplicate each other? Do they link to each other? Are they on the same server?
justong
08-20-2006, 05:00 PM
Additional questions... How long have the home pages been indexed in Google? Are the sites about the same or different topics? Is their content unique or do they duplicate each other? Do they link to each other? Are they on the same server?
They are on the same server. One links to the older site. The content is unique for the most part. One site has insurance content, the other is debt related but also has auto insurance. The home pages have been indexed since 2003, and 2004. At one time the older site did real well in google until Oct. of last year. My other web site has not had any luck from any search engines but has had good google page rank from most web pages within the site, however none are listed for some reason.
justong
08-20-2006, 05:03 PM
justong, welcome to SEW Forums.
Do you have any decent inbound links to the site?
I have been link building for 3 years. My older site 2003 has about 6,000 links from Yahoo on 52 in google. The newer site built in 2004 has about 2800 links in Yahoo and 57 from google but we have some real strong links for this site. How can I tell if the pages are crawlable?
PhilC
08-20-2006, 06:56 PM
How can I tell if the pages are crawlable?If the site uses perfectly normal html internal links, then they are crawlable, but some sites don't make them that simple.
justong
08-21-2006, 05:08 AM
Thank you for all the help. I guess I just would like to know why none of the search engines look at my web pages. One web site has ove 300 pages and only 1 is indexed. What would be the most likely reason for this?
glengara
08-21-2006, 05:45 AM
Stick the url in your profile and we can stop trying to guess...
justong
08-23-2006, 12:23 AM
Ok I posted it. I did not know I could do that here, I should have read fourm rules. Any help would be appreciated.
glengara
08-23-2006, 04:44 AM
On a site: search the first thing G shows is about 40 pages from your Gotlinks directory, all supplemental.
I'd take that as a strong indication of where the problem lies, at least with G...
Robert_Charlton
08-23-2006, 02:14 PM
I took a quick glance at the site and found, after only a brief check...
- a fair number of broken links in the left hand nav menu of one inner page.
- a lot of duplicate content. Random six-word strings, eg, searched in quotes return a great many other sites.
- many pages with essentially no content at all... just a form and a caption or whatever.
- many arguably hidden links in body text, that don't show up as links until you mouse over them. One can debate whether the links are hidden, but, in any case, I feel that there are way too many of these.
The site has an extremely broad focus for many very competitive phrases and areas. I'm not sure that Prudential Insurance, in fact, could rank on all of them. You don't have enough inbound links to support this breadth, and your hierarchical structure isn't well thought out for best use of distributed PageRank.
Additionally, the home page - and most other pages on the site - have virtually no onpage optimization. You have, eg, only one match for your main target phrase on your home page, and not much text that's really about that phrase.
justong
08-24-2006, 12:34 AM
On a site: search the first thing G shows is about 40 pages from your Gotlinks directory, all supplemental.
I'd take that as a strong indication of where the problem lies, at least with G...
Hello, I have set a redirect for all these pages with gotlinks and powerlinks before my website crashed in Oct. 2005 this was working well. I have not had any of these links on my server since Oct. 20 of last year I just can;t seem to kick them out. Any ideas?
g1smd
08-28-2006, 05:11 PM
Google will drop them eventually. You have no control over that except to make sure they return the correct 404 or 301 status code.