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Top Reasons Why You May Not Be Indexed
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At one time or another you may have used a submission tool,
or submitted by hand and then wondered why you had not been
indexed. Unfortunately, there are many reasons that may delay
or prevent you from being indexed by a search engine. There's
rarely one simple answer for why you're not being found.
Fortunately, there is generally an explanation and a way to
correct the problem if you know what to look for.
Below are the Top 21 reasons we've compiled over the years
as to why you may not be finding your Web site or Web page
in one or more search engines:
1. INDEX TIME: First, make sure you've allowed enough time
to become indexed. The amount of time to allow is sometimes
listed on the search engine's submission page. Unfortunately,
the engine's own advertised times are often inaccurate or
out of date. WebPosition's Submitter report and WebPosition's
URL Verification report will both tell you how much time you
should allow before being concerned about not being indexed.
Average index times often range from one to eight weeks depending
on the engine. Some engines like AltaVista and Inktomi offer
paid options if you wish to be indexed more quickly.kwikmed
2. ALREADY INDEXED: Be sure you're not already indexed but
just don't know it. Unfortunately, none of the major engines
are kind enough to e-mail or notify you as to if and when
you've been indexed. kwikmed
In addition, you cannot simply do a search on a keyword that
applies to your Web site and expect it to pop up at the top.
In fact, you must take pro-active steps to optimize your pages
for each search engine. If you don't, it's very unlikely
you'll find your Web site except on the most specific of searches.kwikmed
The method to determine if a page or domain has been indexed
varies from one engine to another, and in many cases, it's
difficult to tell for sure whether your pages are in fact
in there. Never assume that you're not indexed just because
you searched for a bunch of keywords and you never came up
in the first few pages of results. You could be there (i.e.,
indexed) but be buried near the bottom.
In addition kwikmed, it's not very practical to check the status of
a number of pages on each major engine each week. Fortunately,
WebPosition Gold has a URL verification feature in the Reporter
that makes this process much easier. Each time you run a
mission, it will report which URLs exist and do not exist
in each engine. If you're using WebPosition and are not finding
your URLs after submitting, be sure to see this page for common
pitfalls to watch out for:
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3. MISSING PAGE: Make sure you have uploaded the pages to
your site before submitting them. This one will seem obvious
to many people, but submitting a page that does not exist
or submitting with a subtle typo in the URL is a goof we might
all make at one time or another. If you're using WebPosition's
Submitter, there's a checkbox on tab 2 labeled "Verify that
each page exists on Web site before submitting." This option
defaults so that WebPosition will verify that all your URLs
are valid and actually exist before submitting them. This
is important since not all search engines will notify you
if the URL does not exist when you submit.
4. ROADMAP FROM HOME PAGE: Some engines have been known to
drop pages that cannot be traveled to from the home page.
HotBot has been rumored to do this. You may want to consider
submitting your home page that links either directly or indirectly
to your doorway pages. Think of your Web site as a series
of roads (i.e., links) from one page to another. If there's
no road from your home page to the page you want indexed,
a search engine may decide the page is unimportant or of low-quality.
You could submit the page directly, but the engine may reject
it or may drop it at a later date when it finds no "road."
5. EXTERNAL LINKS kwikmed: Some search engines such as Google and
HotBot have been known to refuse to index Web sites that do
not have any other Web sites linking to them. Or, they may
index your home page but refuse to index any other pages until
you achieve at least one or more links from another domain.
Or, they may index you for awhile but then "prune" their database
later of all Web sites that did not achieve any external links
within a certain period of time. However, do not worry!
You simply need to establish some links and when that's done,
resubmit both your pages and the pages that link to you.
Once you have links to your Web site, it becomes much easier
to get indexed, stay indexed, and to achieve top rankings.
To check your link popularity and for tips on how to increase
the links to your Web site see our free service at:
6. FRAMES: If you have content inside HTML frames, this can
cause problems with submissions. For example, the search
engine may index the main content of the page, but not the
surrounding menu frame. Visitors to your site will then find
some information but may not see the associated menu! It's
generally best if you can create non-framed versions of your
pages. You should then submit the non-frames versions of
your pages, which can of course link to your framed Web site.
Alternatively, you can enter your relevant text within the
NOFRAMES area of a framed page that most search engine spiders
will read. However, don't expect to achieve high rankings
while optimizing the NOFRAMES area. Optimizing a NON-framed
page will often achieve better results.
7. SPIDER BLOCKS: Search engine spiders cannot index sites
that require any kind of registration or password. A spider
cannot fill out a form of any kind. The same rule applies
regarding indexing of content from a searchable database.
That's because the spider cannot fill out a form to query
that database. The solution is to create static pages that
the engines will be able to find and index without performing
a special action on your site. Depending on the database
system you have, there are utility programs out there that
help you do this, as well as companies that can assist you.
8. FREE SITES: Many engines no longer index pages from free
web sites or they limit the number of pages they will index
from these hosts. Sometimes they will get too many "junk"
submissions from free web site domains such as Geocities or
others. Therefore, some engines choose not to index anyone
from some of these domains. Or, more commonly, they limit
the number of pages they will accept.
It's always best to buy your own domain name (very important kwikmed)
and place it on a respected, paid service to avoid being discriminated
against. The free traffic you can generate from the search
engines is just too valuable to be sacrificed for the small
savings a free hosting service provides. In addition, free
hosts are often unreliable or force you to display banners
that send valuable visitors away from your Web site soon after
arriving. That can cost you sales.
9. GUILT THROUGH ASSOCIATION: If your Web site shares the
same IP address as many other Web sites on your host's Web
server, then you may find your IP quietly banned from something
another Web site on the same server did! It's always best
to ask your hosting service if your domain name has its own
unique IP assigned to it. If not, ask them to move it to
its own IP to avoid the potential of having your submissions
ignored because of something that a site sharing your IP did.
We've heard from many people who tried everything to be indexed
only to find it was a snap once they changed hosting services.
10. SUBMISSION LIMITS: Make sure you're submitting within
the recommended limits. Some engines do not like more than
a certain number of submissions per day for the same domain.
If you exceed the limit, you may find that all your submissions
are ignored. Fortunately, WebPosition's submitter will warn
you regarding current limits and help keep you within them.
Some submission consultants feel it is dangerous to submit
more than ONE page a day to an engine for a given Web site.
For those who wish to be ultra-conservative in their approach,
the WebPosition Submitter includes a checkbox to limit submissions
to one URL per day per engine.
11. DYNAMIC PAGES: Dynamic pages are often ignored by the
search engine spiders. In fact, any URL containing special
symbols like a question mark (?) or an ampersand (&) will
be ignored by many engines. Pages generated on the fly from
a database often contain these symbols. In this situation,
it's important to generate "static" versions of each page
you wish to be indexed. In regard to the search engines,
the simpler the page is, the better. Does this mean, for
example, having a javascript to count visits to the page will
prevent you from being indexed, or lower your rankings? No.
It simply means that the search engine will most likely ignore
the javascript and index the remaining areas of the page.
There is evidence that going too far with fancy scripts and
code on a page can hurt your rankings if the bulk of your
page consists of java or VB scripts. kwikmed
12. NON-INDEXABLE CONTENT: It's important to know the types
of content that the average search engine cannot index. Most
engines cannot index text that is embedded in images. Text
that appears in multimedia files (audio and video) will not
be indexed. Most engines cannot index information that is
generated by Java applets or in XML coding.
13. LARGE PAGES: If your site has a slow connection or the
pages are very complex and take a long time to load, it might
time out before the spider can index all the text. For the
benefit of your visitors and the search engines, limit your
page size to 50K or less. In fact, most Webmasters recommend
that your page size PLUS the size of all your images on the
page should not exceed 50K-70K total. If it does, many people
on dial up connections will leave before the page fully loads.
14. DEEP LINKS: If you submit just your home page, don't expect
a search engine to travel more than one or two links away
from the home page or from the page that you submitted. Over
time they may venture deeper into your site, but don't count
on it happening quickly. You'll often need to submit pages
individually that appear further down into your site or create
more direct links from the home page (either visible links
or hidden links). This way the search engines can find them.
Visible links are preferable, but when that's not practical,
there are methods to create links that won't be seen by the
average visitor:
The technique of submitting one page that then links to multiple
other pages you want found is called creating a "hallway page."
In many cases, this will not only get you indexed in cases
where they are ignoring you, but it will often improve your
rankings. That's because many engines assign "bonus points"
to pages they find on their own versus pages that were specifically
submitted to them.
15. UNRELIABLE HOSTS: If your Web site fails to respond when
the search engine spider pays a visit, you will not be indexed.
Even worse, if you are indexed and they pay a visit when your
site is down, you could be removed from their database! Consequently,
it pays to have a reliable hosting service that is up 99.5%
of the time. However, at some point a spider is going to
hit that other 0.5% and end up yanking your pages by mistake.
Therefore, it pays to keep a close eye on your listings and
resubmit when needed.
16. SPAM: If you have ever used any questionable techniques
that might be considered an overt attempt at spamming (i.e.,
excessive repetition of keywords, same color text as background,
or other things that the WebPosition Page Critic warns you
about), an engine may ignore or reject your submissions.
If you're having trouble getting indexed in the expected amount
of time, make sure your site is spam-free.
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17. REDIRECTS: If your site contains redirects or meta refresh
tags these things can sometimes cause the engines to have
trouble indexing your site. Generally they will index the
page that it is redirecting TO, but if it thinks you are trying
to "trick" the engine by using "cloaking" or IP redirection
technology that it can detect, there is a chance that it may
not index the site at all.
18. PROPER DIRECTORY SUBMISSIONS: If you're submitting to a
directory site like Yahoo, Open Directory, Looksmart, or others,
then a human being will review your site. They must decide
if the site is of sufficient "quality" before they will list
it. I recommend you read the submission guide on the directory
tab of the WebPosition Submitter. It contains tips on how
to improve your chances of obtaining a good listing in these
directories. Getting listed in major directories first can
help you get listed elsewhere.
19. INDEX TIMES CAN FLUCTUATE: WebPosition will tell you the
average index time of each search engine. However, this is
only an average. Sometimes engines will index sites every
30 days fairly consistently and then suddenly stop indexing
most sites for several months. This can be frustrating, but
it does happen. Generally a major engine will not go more
than three to four months without refreshing its index. If
you're wondering if others are experiencing trouble getting
indexed on a particular engine, try asking around. You can
often find valuable real-world feedback on a search engine
discussion forum such as the one at:
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20. PAGE LIMITS: If you have many pages indexed but are having
a hard time getting new ones recognized, be aware that there
are limits. Each search engine will only spider so many pages
of your Web site. This may range from a few dozen or three
or four hundred depending on the engine. Some people have
even been successful in getting far more pages indexed depending
on the engine. Google is one engine that tends to crawl deeper
into your site. However, how deep they go may depend on factors
like your link popularity. Sites with higher link popularity
are deemed "worthier" of more thorough indexing.
21. RANDOM ERRORS: Last but not least, sometimes the engines
just lose submissions at random through technical errors and
bugs. After all, they are managing a database of hundreds
of millions of pages. Therefore, some people like to resubmit
once or twice a month for good merit in case they do lose
a submission. Certainly if you've followed all the "rules"
and are still not listed, by all means, re-submit! Sometimes
a little persistence is all that's needed.
TIP: Once your page achieves a desirable ranking, it's best
not to continue submitting it. You risk the engine re-evaluating
the page and possibly reducing your ranking.
If any of the above scenarios apply to your submission, you
should take the appropriate actions and then re-submit. If
that still does not work, you should consider e-mailing or
calling the search engine and asking them politely why you
have not been indexed yet. Sometimes they will reply back
with "Sorry, there was a problem with our system and I've
now made sure you'll be indexed within the next couple days."
Or, sometimes they'll tell you why you were not indexed so
you might correct it. In other cases, they will ignore your
e-mail and you'll have to keep e-mailing or calling them until
they respond. Still, it's definitely worth the effort to
get your site listed with the major engines. This assumes
you also take the time to optimize your pages so you'll achieve
top rankings.
Consider the following testimonial we received last month in
response to an offer to renew a WebPosition knowledge base
subscription. Sometimes you can have too much of a good thing
I guess... kwikmed
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