I have a website that I made in html and css. I registered the domain and I am hosting it using googledrive if you go into a browser and type in (websitename).com in the url it works but if you type it into google or bing search engine it dosnt come up. There were about 20 things that came up and none of them were my site. I am using godaddy.com for my domain name. Do I have to enable something? What am I doing wrong?
A few things you should know:
You need to go into the Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools (https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home) and add your website and submit a sitemap
Websites aren't crawled and indexed immediately, it takes time. Also, your website may never rank, it depends on how relevant the search engines determine your content is (See this article on SEO http://searchengineland.com/guide/what-is-seo)
Also, you should post this in the Webmasters community, not here.
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Is there a way to get my webpage which is stored in my public_html folder on my server to show up in google? Right now I don't get any hit when searching the title.
Sign Up for Google Webmaster and list your site there, here is the link...https://www.google.com/webmasters/
http://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo
Basically what you need to do is turn your page into a SEO beast. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. You need to follow googles guidelines:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35291?hl=en
You need to add certain tags and best practices to your website to get googles bots to scan your site better and get a better understanding of how your website is setup. #Guarav Genius also gave you a link to google webmasters which should provide some more information on how to get your website to show up on google.
I'm doing SEO-type work for a client with many diverse site properties-- none of which were built by myself. One of them in particular, to which I'm linking here, appears to be having issues being indexed by search engines. Interestingly, I've tried multiple sitemap generator tools and they too seem to have problems indexing the site; although the site is made up of only a few pages and external links, the sitemap tools-- and I suspect search engines-- are only seeing the homepage itself and nothing else.
In Google webmaster tools, I'm seeing a couple crawl errors (404) relating to home/index.html but nothing else. Also, in Google Analytics, over 80% of the traffic is direct-- i.e. not search traffic-- which seems alarming. The site has been live for about a month, and is being promoted by various sources. Even searching Google using the domain name itself doesn't bring the homepage up in results (!), let alone any related keywords.
My ultimate question is whether or not there appears to be any glaring issues with the code that might prevent proper indexing. I'm noticing that the developer chose to structure the navigation by naming directories, i.e. linking to "home/index.html," "team/index.html," "about/index.html" etc. when it seems optimal to be naming the HTML file itself, i.e. "team.html" and "about.html." Could this be part of the problem?
Thanks for any insight here.
You have two major issues here.
First issue is the root http://www.raisetheriver.org/ has a meta refresh that redirects the page to http://www.raisetheriver.org/home/index.html
Google recommends against using meta refresh, 301 redirects should be used if you want to redirect pages. However I recommend against redirecting the root home page to another page, as a websites home page is expected to be the root.
The second issue is that all the pages on the site are blocked from being indexed in Google as they have the following code in the source code: <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> which instructs search engines not to index the page.
Correct these issue and the site will be able to get indexed in Google and sitemap generators will be able to crawl the site.
Having sub directories for the pages won't be an issue to web crawler because even large site like Amazon, Ebay and many other have sub directory align pages.
This error occurred that due to your sitemap.xml or sitemap.html might contain invalid or broken links and have been indexed to Google. And you can generate sitemap using this site http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ even I am using this and works perfectly.
And please check manually all directories and pages in your cpanel is working or not. If find any any invalid link you may be able to fix it.
I want to find the number of pages of a website. Usually what I look for is a sitemap but I just encountered a site which does not have a sitemap so I am out of ideas of how to find its total pages. I tried to Google the URL but that did not helped much. Is there any other way we can find out the pages of a website?
Thanks in advance.
Ask Google "site:yourdomain.com"
This gives you all indexed pages.
Or use the free tool "Xenu". It crawls the whole site. But it won't find sites which have no internal links pointing to them. You can also export a sitemap with it.
I was about to suggest the same thing :) If this is a website you own, you can also add it to the Google Webmaster tools. It will show you lots of things about your site including number of links, pages, search terms, etc Its very useful and is free of charge.
I have found a better solution myself. You can go to Google Advanced Search and restrict the search results to your domain name. Leave everything else empty. It would give you the list of all pages cached by Google.
You could also try A1 Website Analyzer. But for all link checker software, you will have to make sure you configure them correctly to obey/not-obey (whatever your needs are) e.g robots.txt, noindex and nofollow instructions. (Common source for confusion in my experience.)
How these sites gather all the data - questionhub, bigresource, thedevsea, developerbay?
Is this legal to show data in frame as bigresource do?
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How these sites gather all data- questionhub, bigresource ...
Here's a very general sketch of what is probably happening in the background at website like questionhub.com
Spider program (google "spider program" to learn more)
a. configured to start reading web pages at stackoverflow.com (for example)
b. run program so it goes to home page of stackoverflow.com and starts visiting all links that it finds on those pages.
c. Returns HTML data from all of those pages
Search Index Program
Reads HTML data returned by spider and creates search index
Storing the words that it found AND what URL those words where found at
User Interface web-page
Provides feature rich user-interface so you can search the sites that have been spidered.
Is this legal to show data in frame as bigresource do?
To be technical, "it all depends" ;-)
Normally, websites want to be visible in google, so why not other search engines too.
Just as google displays part of the text that was found when a site was spidered,
questionhub.com (or others) has chosen to show more of the text found on the original page,
possibly keeping the formatting that was in the orginal HTML OR changing the formatting to
fit their standard visual styling.
A remote site can 'request' that spyders do NOT go thru some/all of their web pages
by adding a rule in a well-known file called robots.txt. Spiders do not
have to honor the robots.txt, but a vigilant website will track the IP addresses
of spyders that do not honor their robots.txt file and then block that IP address
from looking at anything on their website. You can find plenty of information about robots.txt here on stackoverflow OR by running a query on google.
There is a several industries (besides google) built about what you are asking. There are tags in stack-overflow for search-engine, search; read some of those question/answers. Lucene/Solr are open source search engine components. There is a companion open-source spider, but the name eludes me right now. Good luck.
I hope this helps.
P.S. as you appear to be a new user, if you get an answer that helps you please remember to mark it as accepted, or give it a + (or -) as a useful answer. This goes for your other posts here too ;-)
When you go to Google and perform a search, it will return either one of two type of results:
just the title of your webpage, or
the title of your web-page plus, lists subpages it found on that web site
Here is an example of option #2: http://37assets.s3.amazonaws.com/svn/grub-ellis-googlelisting.png
My website on a google.com search only lists my web page title (option #1), how do I get google to list my subpages on the search results (option #2)?
Is is an HTML issue? How do I get Google to know what my subpages are so that it can also list those on a google search.
Those are called "sitelinks" and are automated but you can partially configure them in Google's webmaster's tools. In webmaster's tools, click "sitelinks" in the navigation menu on the left. From the sitelinks page:
Sitelinks are links to a site's interior pages. Not all sites have sitelinks. Google generates these links automatically, but you can remove sitelinks you don't want.
Here is another Google page explaining sitelinks.
You should add a site-map using the Google webmaster tools site, or by maintaining your own. For explanation check out Sitelinks page.
Google has not generated any sitelinks
for your site. Sitelinks are
completely automated, and we show them
only if we think they'll be useful to
the user. If your site's structure
doesn't allow our algorithms to find
good sitelinks, or we don't think that
the sitelinks are relevant to the
user's query, we won't show them.
However, we are always working to
improve how we find and display
sitelinks.
You can also directly enable sitelinks (you don’t have to get lucky) in Google’s Pay-Per-Click platform (AdWords), and it will have a similar very positive impact on your clickthrough rate.
You need to create XML sitemap. Here is all you need to know. Check if your open-source CMS has plugin/add-on/module to do this automatically, there must be generators somewhere too.
http://www.google.lv/search?q=XML+sitemap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitemaps
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184
You are describing "Search Engine Optimization" with your question. If you have a small site, the best thing you can hope for is to ensure every page has a unique title, links back to your home page, you have a good "site map" so search engines can easily discover ALL of your pages, and most important, your pages are THE definitive place for information about whatever you're selling.
Content is king and once you become the authority, your page will pop up in the 1st 1-2 links.
Contact some local SEO folks in your area and ask for a site evaluation. Many will do it for free with their automated tools. You can use the webmaster tools from bing or google if you're on a tight budget.