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Seaeco.com - Ignored by Google
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Seaeco.com is an accessible website with validating XHTML and CSS and was designed without the use of frames. It has quality, keyword rich content, quick loading pages and conforms to all web standards save for some of the AAA accessibility guidelines.
Seaeco.com has been submitted to Google, MSN, Yahoo and of course DMOZ.org. The website has incoming links (set up by me) from about 8 websites, 4 added before it went 'live', the rest done at 2 a day over a week or two, it also contains links to it's testsite from CSS forums where i have asked others opinions about the design and coding. It contains no broken links, it has a submited Google XML sitemap as well as a more readable XHTML 'visual' sitemap for real visitors.Every page has a keyword rich title, a 'descriptive' description and i haven't overdone it it the META keywords by repeating things too often or using too many keywords in there. (from what i understand, Google pretty much ignores this particular META tag anyway. It has been present on the net ready for indexing in this format for nearly 3 months .......
SO WHY THE **** HASN'T GOOGLE INDEXED MY WEBSITE YET?
This situation has been confusing and irritating me (and my client) for a while. I understand that Google will only index the website approx every three to four weeks, but judging by the three other websites i have uploaded or redesigned during this period of time, the only conclusion i can come to is it is being 'ignored' for some reason.
Did i make a mistake?
I may have made, what i believe, are a couple of errors submitting this website.
- While submitting the other websites to DMOZ.org, i got carried away and added seaeco.com before it was actually there, i don't know why - over enthusiastic i guess (and probably tired too!).
- I have submitted the website to Google a couple of times as well as submitting the seaeco.com/sitemap.xml through Google sitemaps - did i overdo it?
- When the website was originally posted it contained incoming links from the other websites i have designed, firstly on their attractions pages (all the websites are tourism based in a small area and are related) and secondly on the 'about this website' page, a page which i include in all websites i have designed, promoting my services as a web designer and linking to other 'examples' of my work. Did i make a mistake by having incoming links to seaeco.com before it was actually there?
The other websites i have designed and uploaded during this period have been indexed at least once, with some being indexed three times, they are all of the same 'format' i.e. they are all validating XHTML, CSS accessible, quick loading with relevant content and with incoming links from a variety of websites - all worthwhile incoming links.
I haven't succumbed to the temptation of 'link farms' or even linking from websites with unrelated subjects. I haven't 'cheated', there are none of the old SEO 'tricks' like hidden text coloured to match the background, no stupid keywords etc - i've done it all right!
Yet still i ask:
SO WHY THE **** HASN'T GOOGLE INDEXED MY WEBSITE YET?
Summary
At the time of writing this i don't have an answer, i spend a lot of time researching and reading articles by the more prominent and experienced SEO 'guru's' out there and since having problems with this website have put even more time into trying to discover what is wrong with this one in particular.
I will update this article with any discoveries i make so that, in the event i get a definitive answer, you may learn from it and not make the same mistake too.
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