Website is not indexed in Google
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Hi Guys,
I have a problem with a website from a customer. His website is not indexed in Google (except for the homepage). I could not find anything that can possibly be the cause.
I already checked the robots.txt, sitemap, and plugins on the website. In the HTML code i also couldn't find anything which makes indexing harder than usual.
This is the website i am talking about: http://www.xxxx.nl/ (Dutch)
The only thing that i am guessing now is the Google sandbox, but even that is quite unlikely.
I hope you guys discover something i could not find!
Thanks in advance
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Baldea,
The domain was new indeed.
We are going to try your suggestions and hope for the best!
Fingers crossed indeed
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Bastiaan,
The domain was new, right? I mean it wasn't dropped/expired etc.
Try to get a dofollow link from a relevant website that has some traffic (Google tends to index very fast such websites and outgoing resources).
Also, make sure you have a sitemap and try including a line in robots.txt:
Sitemap: http://www.wikiboedel.nl/sitemap.xml
Submit the sitemap in Google's Webmaster Tools.
If you do all these, it is impossible bot to get indexed in a few days.
Anyway, fingers crossed.
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I will try the line in the robots.txt. I already created an XML sitemap which has been submitted via Google Webmaster Tools.
Thanks for helping.
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Hmm, this is strange indeed. Google should follow the links on the home page and index the available subpages. 2 months should be plenty of time too. Maybe try these two things:
- Add this line to robots.txt:
Allow: / ```Even though the current robots looks in order, this specifically tells search engines to index all except the /wp-pages you excluded.
- Create an XML Sitemap (or just a manual .txt file) and submit it via GWT
This might speed it up. BTW, the site is correctly indexed in Bing.
- Add this line to robots.txt:
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Thanks for the quick answer Baldea.
This website has been online for about 2 months now i think. It has been verified in the Google Webmaster Tools.
I also did a little linkbuilding (about 3 links) on dutch websites like www.ekudos.nl - which did not seem to help.
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Hi Bestiaan,
If it was recently (1-2 weeks) created and if you used robots.txt to block search engines (when I create a website, I use to block search engines from robots.txt, until everything is working fine and only afterwards I modify the permissions) than it's normal.
Verify the website in Google's Webmaster Tools and go to the robots.txt section. You should see if that is the reason.
I see your robots.txt file is fine, you have no NOINDEX meta tag or so.
To "stimulate" the indexation process you could make some use of social media. Share a post and wait 1-2 days. Or, some relevant direct link to one of the posts.
I hope this helps.
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