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keirik

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How long should I expect to wait before google can find a new website I've created (using googlesites)

I don't mean getting near the top of the searches, but actually google finding the site itself if i type in its name?

The site exists and i can go directly to it but google can't find it even if I put the whole of the name in the search string

I've submitted the sitemap to google and got the site verified so is now just a case of sitting and hopefully it will see it sometime?
 
It should take between 1 day and six weeks for it to show. Tip: summit it to google local (google places) add images and video, do the summision full. At the moment for the UK sites I have dealt with recently (wedding planner, wedding photographer, insurance Co. Several accountants and a scrap car business) Google seems to be spidering sites pretty imeduiatally, but popping them "somewhere on the listings" after a week, and creeping them up to the "stable position" after about 3-4 weeks

Also Google likes to find a site from another link, so some choice inbound links will help at this stage

I could go on for hours about SEO, but you didn't ask that
 
Put your homepage in your signature possibly the quickest and easiest. Set-up google webmaster tools to seachr and report inbound links to you

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cambsno said:
How do you get inbound links?
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Ask for them. The forum thing is OK, so long as the forum hasn't stipulated that links are "no-follow" If you look in the source for this forum, you will see that is the case (find a post with a link in, or find a signature with a link in and search for the phrase no-follow in the source relating to hyper-link in question

There is a reason people do this
1. prevent spamming from the forum (no point - usually the main reason)
2. to stop any page rank the forum has being "donated" shared with another site (cynical reason)

Example: if you link to a forum which has a no-follow policy, you loose some of your page rank by donating it to the outbound link (the forum gains some of your rank, from the page with the link), if you subsequently then pop your link in a post, the forum is sitting pretty, not loosing a thing

In other words - no mater who it is, if you do a link exchange, check the source and ensure outbound links are NOT labelled with no-follow, or their site will gain page rank and yours will loose it
 
ok, still having problems with my google site

Still not been indexed at all, and i think one of the problems is google has decided that as well as http://www.xxx.co.uk the site also supports http://xxx.co.uk (without the www), and won't let me set a preferred domain until I've verified the latter domain.

however google won't let me verify it because it says it's not part of the domain - so I seem to be going round in circles!

anyone got any clues at all?

i'm not worried about getting to the top of the google lists at the moment, just get indexed so if the address is typed in google can at least find it

thx
 
keirik said:
ok, still having problems with my google site

Still not been indexed at all, and i think one of the problems is google has decided that as well as http://www.xxx.co.uk the site also supports http://xxx.co.uk (without the www), and won't let me set a preferred domain until I've verified the latter domain.

however google won't let me verify it because it says it's not part of the domain - so I seem to be going round in circles!

anyone got any clues at all?

i'm not worried about getting to the top of the google lists at the moment, just get indexed so if the address is typed in google can at least find it

thx
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- log into webmaster tools
- add a new site - (same domain without the www) - this is the stage you are missing out
- verify that domain (I know it is the same one) by uploading the new file google give you to your server (again)
- then specify that one or the other isnt to be included in the listings (to avoid duplicated content issues)


in otherwords, google treats the WWW and non WWW versions as 2 different sites
 
p.s. dont forget to submit a xml site map for the correct URL for your site
 
unfortunately it appears that when the domain was created the registrants didn't include a record in hostnames for the top level domain.

so google can't see it

i would warn everyone here off using the gbbo system - it's appalling and unhelpful, and the registration help email address bounces!!!
 
well it appears they've now fixed it as I requested (although they haven't bothered to tell me)

it appears that you might get a domain but they maintain control of it and the dns settings, so you have to ask for it to be changed.

but they don't have a formal way of doing this, you have to go onto their support forum and basically ask and plead and eventually they might do it.

there are a load of threads about this from other users too.

Now all I have to do is wait 30more days and try and move it to where I really want it to point to since their hosting solution doesn't allow a whole load of things I need (like a ecommerce solution!)
 
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