Comments on: Ensure Your Site is Indexed in Google http://www.elliotsblog.com/ensure-your-site-is-indexed-in-google-0379 Domain blog featuring domain investing strategy, domain valuation, and domain development commentary from Elliot Silver, founder of Top Notch Domains, LLC. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:04:10 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: South Dakota http://www.elliotsblog.com/ensure-your-site-is-indexed-in-google-0379/comment-page-1#comment-13642 South Dakota Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:11:57 +0000 http://www.elliotsblog.com/ensure-your-site-is-indexed-in-google#comment-13642 Elliot - We have the same issue with SouthDakota.com right now. No idea and can not get a response, but for the terms "south dakota" and "southdakota" we are not in the results. We were listed at 1 time, #26ish on Google. The site is indexed and we do get search traffic just not on these 2 keywords. Very frustrating to not be listed anywhere. We have submitted the request but no response as of yet - over 2 weeks now. We do have a bundle of pages indexed though. Anyone cure this, let me know. Thanks. Results 1 - 10 of about 35,100 from www.southdakota.com for southdakota.com Elliot –
We have the same issue with SouthDakota.com right now. No idea and can not get a response, but for the terms “south dakota” and “southdakota” we are not in the results. We were listed at 1 time, #26ish on Google. The site is indexed and we do get search traffic just not on these 2 keywords. Very frustrating to not be listed anywhere. We have submitted the request but no response as of yet – over 2 weeks now. We do have a bundle of pages indexed though.

Anyone cure this, let me know. Thanks.

Results 1 – 10 of about 35,100 from http://www.southdakota.com for southdakota.com

]]> By: Trond M. http://www.elliotsblog.com/ensure-your-site-is-indexed-in-google-0379/comment-page-1#comment-13631 Trond M. Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:16:04 +0000 http://www.elliotsblog.com/ensure-your-site-is-indexed-in-google#comment-13631 @Dan Thanks for the tip - my WP 2.8.4 installations have the same issue, as it turns out. I would probably never have seen this, I didn't even know such a setting existed! @Dan

Thanks for the tip – my WP 2.8.4 installations have the same issue, as it turns out. I would probably never have seen this, I didn’t even know such a setting existed!

]]> By: John Mueller http://www.elliotsblog.com/ensure-your-site-is-indexed-in-google-0379/comment-page-1#comment-13609 John Mueller Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:17:08 +0000 http://www.elliotsblog.com/ensure-your-site-is-indexed-in-google#comment-13609 It looks like the site recently had the following robots meta tag on the homepage: This would have prevented the site from getting indexed (but it looks ok now) and might have been from a privacy setting somewhere. At any rate, in general these issues are not so black/white that it makes sense to rely on submitting a reconsideration request :-). When all else fails, I'd recommend posting in the Google Webmaster Help forum to get some expert opinions. It looks like the site recently had the following robots meta tag on the homepage:

This would have prevented the site from getting indexed (but it looks ok now) and might have been from a privacy setting somewhere.

At any rate, in general these issues are not so black/white that it makes sense to rely on submitting a reconsideration request :-) . When all else fails, I’d recommend posting in the Google Webmaster Help forum to get some expert opinions.

]]> By: Dan Sanchez http://www.elliotsblog.com/ensure-your-site-is-indexed-in-google-0379/comment-page-1#comment-13608 Dan Sanchez Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:29:02 +0000 http://www.elliotsblog.com/ensure-your-site-is-indexed-in-google#comment-13608 Her blog will probably never be indexed, there is a glitch in the most recent wordpress update that auto-selects the option to " I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors" in the privacy section of the wordpress admin. They wouldn't know it unless you actually went to that page. Her blog will probably never be indexed, there is a glitch in the most recent wordpress update that auto-selects the option to ” I would like to block search engines, but allow normal visitors” in the privacy section of the wordpress admin.

They wouldn’t know it unless you actually went to that page.

]]> By: Todd Mintz http://www.elliotsblog.com/ensure-your-site-is-indexed-in-google-0379/comment-page-1#comment-13607 Todd Mintz Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:12:49 +0000 http://www.elliotsblog.com/ensure-your-site-is-indexed-in-google#comment-13607 If you're sure you haven't been "naughty" with your site, you should register it with Google Webmaster Tools as a step to getting the domain indexed. Filing a reconsideration request is absolutely the last thing you do when all other avenues to get a site indexed have been exhausted. If you’re sure you haven’t been “naughty” with your site, you should register it with Google Webmaster Tools as a step to getting the domain indexed. Filing a reconsideration request is absolutely the last thing you do when all other avenues to get a site indexed have been exhausted.

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