Google doesn't like my site?

Hey peeps,

About a week ago maybe more I submitted my url www.lovebyday.com (yes its a dating site, for a client) to Google and since then been Googleing lovebyday.com and It still doesn't come up it always says. Did you mean lovemayday.com ? I also submitted it to yahoo and it seem to be indexed the very next day. Just wondering what might be the cause of this. Are they just very slow or does their system not like the site. I've submitted plenty of sites to them and they seem to be up fairly fast. The site uses Smarty template engine but that shouldn't be a problem should it?

Thanks

It can take up to a couple of months to register with Google.
I suggest checking out the webmaster tools available and
amongst other things, submit a site map.

HTH.

Ow really? That long. Thanks for the heads up. I've used those webmaster tools for most of my other sites but not this one. So ill give it a go and see if it speeds things up.

Thanks again

Hi,

Yes, check out the webmaster tools, and set up a sitemap if you haven't done so already.

Rich

Hi jabba, I'm very new to this and I don't know how to use this webmaster tool and what it is for?

Could you please explain to me as I am really inexperienced but I am willing to learn about website because I am running 3 website without knowing what to do with them....

I've clicked the link but I dont know how to prove that I'm the website owner.

They asked me to upload my HTML ( what is it?)

Meta tag (what is it?) Is it the meta tag in my website admin or else?

Thank you for anyone that helps me

The meta tag they ask you to add is a line of code which goes in the "header area" of your homepage.
If you can't edit your site source code you may have a problem with that... their other option is to add a file to your server (in the domain root folder).

Just to add my 2 cents... Telling Google that your site exists does not necessarily mean that they will index it.
What you need in order to get ranked is links from other websites to yours - preferably sites which are related to your site theme (or directories... in the relevant catagory of course).

Hello there!

Firstly, the best way to check if your site is found in Google is to see if it has been cached. (Assuming you haven't disabled caching for the page manually.) You can do this by querying "cache:http://www.lovebyday.com/" in Google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=cach....lovebyday.com/

When executing the above query, if your site has been found by Google, you will be presented with a page similar to this .

Or you can just go to Index Status!!

Right, sounds like we need to get your site indexed? And fast!!

Because it's your client's site for what looks like commercial purposes my first method may not be relevant, but I will explain it anyway, for future forum reference.

1) AdSense Contextualisation
If you set-up an account with Google AdSense and implement one of the small contextual advertising banners on your site. Google should index your site within 30 hours. Why? Because it's datacentres require information (indexed pages) about your domain in order to provide relevant ads. Great. This has always worked for me. Last time I tried this was about 6 weeks ago.

2) Google Webmaster tools
You need to tell Google where the site is and how you want it to me treated when it's indexed. You can do this by going to Webmaster tools and submitting info about your site. The best example I can think of for a setting that you must initially specify is whether or not you want google to dream www.domain.com as seperate to domain.com. Also, here you will be able to submit a sitemap. This often helps when speeding up the process too.

3) Forums
Post the url of the domain in your signature and make lots of activity in forums like this one. By the end of the day if you can get your link posted 30 times, you have a good chance that google will find your site within 48hrs. Why? Well, because forums are updated so frequently, google indexes them more frequently too - thus, it will find all those links to your site and think, "oooo, new - I want to see that, and then index your site".

4+) Sure there are other methods too, but have been recommended and have worked for me.

All the best to you in your winning over Google BOTS

Wow thanks airdesign, thanks for the reply. The methods are very helpful. I'll let you know how everything goes.

Hmm very weird. They still hadn't cached my site until the other day. 2 Jul 2007 05:59:00 GMT. But how they got the text from my site very weird. This is what is displayed when I search http://www.lovebyday.com/

love by day - 100% Free Online Dating Community
18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 ...
www.lovebyday.com/ - 24k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Umm I don't really get it. Is google having trouble going over my site? Where does the

18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48 ...

part come from and how would I go about fixing it next time google comes crawling?

Thanks in Advance

Well I worked out the where. Now just the why. Turns out its the values from the age selection box on the quick search.



So it skips all the text on the front page and gets the details from the box. Nice. Any ideas one what I should do?

Ow and the huge gap on the main page is where the ads will sit. But google haven't approved the site. Any other ad programs that might pay almost as well?

Really sorry about the tripple post. But I just googled lovebyday and the result for the site was different?

love by day - 100% Free Online Dating Community
Welcome to LOVEBYDAY. It's nice to meet you! We're a world wide online dating community that's ... So spread the word, it's LOVEBYDAY and it's 100% FREE. ...
www.lovebyday.com/ - 24k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Very weird. It's the result I was after. Whats with the other result? Have they indexed my site twice?

No worries with regard to the triple post!

I am glad you found your answer.

I think in order to cure the '1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10' problem you may have to write a larger meta-description value. In my experience 20-26 words has always worked best. If you can insert your keywords 1-2 in the normal value and then, perhaps, reversed once, then that should work a little better!

"Very weird. It's the result I was after. Whats with the other result? Have they indexed my site twice?"

No they haven't indexed your site twice. They are just showing different result extracts for the different queries you are entering:
* query = LOVEBYDAY Google returns your page and highlights the extract where LOVEBYDAY is found (highlighted twice).
* query = domain (LOVEBYDAY.*) Google has been asked to return information on what it holds about the domain. It has no parameters for which extract to show so it shows the first text extract it has recorded in its database. As for why it's chosen to do the 'number roll' (for want of a better expression) is beynod me and seems non-sensical. However, I think by expanding your meta-description value it may solve this problem on the next index date!

Let's say your keywords was "lovebyday", I'd stick something similar in structure to the below in your meta-description tag and see what happens for now! ....
"Welcome to LOVEBYDAY. It's nice to meet you! We're a world wide online dating community that's 100% free!So spread the word, it's LOVEBYDAY and it's 100% FREE."

Regards

Thanks very much for the tips airdesign. Really helped me understand. I'll try the longer meta tag one asap and let you know if I get different results when they revisit the site.

Thanks again

1. Submit a Google Sitemap
2. Get credible in-links
3. And forget about it

Time will do the rest