Pages not indexed by Google?

[Nicholas Hughes]

As my signature shows, I have a website for online to do list and time manegement software. For last 4 days, I post the blog article on the website everyday. The articles are the user manuals of the TABB. Just now, I searched my site on Google and found that: The blog articles have not been indexed yet by Google.

My question is: Is there anything I do wrong? Is there anything wrong about the blog content? Or is it just because I am impatient?

Looking forward to your help and clerifications, thanks!

[pamb10]

I assume you are talking about the TABB site listed in your signature? if you do site:www.tabb.ca you will see the pages that google has indexed.

[Nicholas Hughes]

Yes, I do "site:www.tabb.ca", and there are indeed some pages indexed. My concern is that: the blog pages where I submit the articles are not indexed. Why and how should I do?

[pamb10]

Nicholas,

Im not familiar with rapidpage.ca, but you might try using google webmaster tools and submitting a sitemap for your site. this will allow google to know about all of your pages.

[wadeinni]

Hi Nicolas, definite make sure you have that robot.txt file setup to tell Google to allow and index your sites in the serps. I visited both of your URLs and saw no robots.txt file present in your domain root.

Setup the free webmaster tools with your Google account like others have suggested and here's one that many people don't do but very much hurt their site's important pages getting indexed.

In Google webmaster tools there is a URL parameter feature under "Site Configuration". Read up on this a little more in the official webmaster forum to see how it's used to prevent query string urls on your site from getting index. The reason this is important is because Googlebot spider might give up trying to index your most important pages because it has to spend enormous time filtering through query string urls. The query strings are those long ridiculous urls with question marks, equal signs, and abbreviated words in them. If the Google spider encounter these (and most likely your site has them) it won't waste any more time crawling your site, therefore missing out on those pages you really need indexed.

So in addition to sharing the target content on social bookmarks like stumbleupon.com, create a sitemap and robots.txt file in your site domain root folder, submit the sitemap to webmaster tools, and filer out those nasty query string urls using the URL Parameter feature. Come back and let us know how it works. It could take up to a week after you perform all tasks to see results

[mleejr]

Hi Nicholas

I would have to say I agree with everything above but also add be patient. Sometimes Google has been known to take up to 6 weeks to index content.

I would say do the things that was suggested above, then move on to something else without worry. They will get to you.

To Your Success,
Martin