My site is not indexing correctly - Please help

[hickson1]

My website has been designed and has once successfully been indexed with Google. The bots visit regularly but this does not seem to correct the problem of no indexing and cache. It is really important to me as this is a holiday home in the south of france and i need to rent the villa for summer. http://www.catalanvilla.info Please help!!

[Ravenfire]

Just replied on your other thread asking how long this bas been open for

[Tin]

Hi

Google has cached and indexed some of your site, 8 pages in total. You only registered your domain name on 3rd Jan 2006 so you'll have a bit of a wait before you get into Google, (12 months) if you target main search terms (ones popularly used by searchers looking for what you have to offer) :-( .
Targeting more focused but less popular search terms will get you in Google rankings much quicker. MSN will allow you into their listings about 3 days after they've found you. Yahoo can take anything from 1 month to longer than Google in some cases because it's spider isn't as vigorous as Googles.
I'd like to point out that being listed & indexed on search engines is not the same as being 'found' in an engines rankings, you need to do some work in that respect before you will appear anywhere useful.

Hope that helps :)

[DarrenC]

Grr @ duplicate posts :|

The keyword 'vacation villa' is quite competitive, and will be used mainly by US and some European internet surfers. I would use a mixture of 'holiday' and 'vacation' within the keywords.

How long has the website been listed on Google in particular? In which country is your site hosted in?

If it's a new domain name and you've just been listed in Google (which looks like it's the case) then it'll take upto 12 months before you start to ranked high for competitive keywords, and most holiday and vacation keywords are just that.. competitive.

If your hosted in the USA, it'll be easier to rank on Google.com but it'll take longer to get ranked on .co.uk that's from my own experience anyway - so bear in mind the different country variations of a keyword.

Yahoo and MSN will be easier to get ranked, but won't pull in the type of traffic that Google will. Make sure that the keywords you are optimising are used within the content on your page, but without sounding like spam.

Get links to your website using these keywords, and within time you'll notice a difference. Search engine optimisation is not something that will take a day or week to master - it can take months and years.

Search engines, especially Google used to be fairly easy to rank in - but with the increase in spam sites, Google had to do something to stop spammers.

So focus on

Content featuring your keywords
Links to your page using these keywords
Write articles to drive traffic and links to your site
Submit your site to the thousands of directories out there.

Hope this helps

Darren

[Tin]

me too......... going dizzy now :?

[fastfences]

Grr @ duplicate posts :|
Darren

Duplicate forums, too!!