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I am frustrated. 

I have submitted my website to Google (over a week ago), I have submitted a sitemap. (17 hours ago).

But Google still, "No pages from your site are currently included in Google`s index. Indexing can take time. You may find it helpful to review our information for webmasters and webmaster guidelines. "

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Peace

Joseph Flahiff

www.celticscrapbooking.com

We just got into Google Analytics, and that seems to get the show on the road a lot faster. You register, get some code, and add it to each page. Pretty simple, it seems. Maybe?

Thanks, I will look into Google Analytics.

I am using Google AdWords and they are GREAT!! I have had 4 purchases in 10 days just from AdWords.

What is Squidoo?I guess I will go find out.

My product is Irish Dance Scrapbook items.

thanks

 

Go do some viral marketing to entice Google back to your site.

And yes sometimes it just takes forever. Google last indexed one of my sites in Nov 2006. I`m still waiting for it to swing on back by.

Indexing does take some time as Google has several thousand new sites to index daily. Even then, there`s no guarantee that once you`re indexed, that your business will pick up. Keep working with the Analytics and AdWords. Other than that, you`ll need to polish up on the good old fashioned marketing. It may not be the trendy thing to do, but it`s proven.

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Ryan J StarPointe Marketing Website Development, Hosting & Marketing Consulting

Google Analytics?
Ok here is the thing. Even though you`ve done everything they asked you to do, you`re not indexing? First of all a sitemap doesn`t guarantee you that you will be indexed, that just tells the search bot that you are compliant with google.
have you included a robot.txt? or have you manually submitted your web site to all search engines. Have you checked your Meta tags? are they correct?
Google analytics, just shows activity on your pages and tracks impressions.
NIKOLE, Since NOV 2006? that`s a long time... you need to check your code make sure your tags are correct.

I submitted a customer`s web site, January 20th he has reached 811,456 impressions and he is indexing at about 10th place on the net. This is with a budget of $20.00 dollars a day on Adwords. Now those where his adwords impressions, I am also using organic search engine submissions to help him climb to the top faster.

As for jflahiff, check your code and resubmit. Most likely your site map is wrong or it wasn`t configured correctly.

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Edgar Monroy
Web Developer / Owner / Consultant
When starting your own business the need to "know-how" is greater than money!
http://www.nuevolution.net

Well ...

It was a 5yo site that got a redesign.

Google`s 41 cached pages ... 19 are 404 pages.
So it has come back by, it`s just still having serious issues.

I`m thinking about moving it again to do something else to it, probably just mess the whole thing up again!

Well, did you resubmit all 41 pages after you where done?
For future reference, do not delete the old meta tags, simply copy them to your new page. When I redesign a full web site I usually leave all the meta tags intact. What I do is copy them to notepad, integrate the new site and add the tags back.
Make sure the content is the same too.


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Edgar Monroy
Web Developer / Owner / Consultant
When starting your own business the need to "know-how" is greater than money!
http://www.nuevolution.net

Hey Joseph - it can be a challenge with a new domain - the "sandbox"ing of newer domains has been documented, debated and done to death, but generally it`s persistence that pays off in this game. If you`ve done the things you can to affect spidering of your site, and it sounds like you have taken many of those steps, you should see results...just probably not as quickly as you`d like.

For a couple of reference points on the sandbox, check out this and this.

Couple of things to note from an SEO standpoint:

• Your meta keywords tag pretty much looks like spam at this point. It looks like you dropped in every keyword combination you`re targeting for your site on your homepage. Try to whittle that down to a core set you`re targeting, and make sure that the tag is specific and distinct for each page.
• Title tags, title tags - pay close attention to those, and again make them distinct and targeted for each page.
• You`ve got distinct products with distinct attributes, yet the individual product pages aren`t very differentiated. I`d focus on attending to those pages and working to make them stand out from one another. More product details (on-page copy) would be a great help - and again, detailed title tags for each.

Just a couple of off-the-cuff recommendations for you.




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chuck fuller

Chuck

THANKS!  That is great. I will get to work on the copy for each item.  And my meta tags are pretty much just grabbing everything I could. I will refine that and make it different for each product page.

again Thanks. I am new to this whole online meta tag etc.. market so this is really helpful

Peace

Joseph