Why Isn‘t Your Page Being Indexed?

Ok you have been working on your site for weeks, got all the right keywords, the graphics look cool, and the content is right on. Everyone you have shown the site to tells you how good it looks and you have submitted it to all the search engines, but they just will not index it.

Has this ever happened to you, or is it happening to a site you have just published? It seems to be a common problem for many people, but why?

Well there could be numerous reasons for this to happen, but basically the search engines just do not understand your code.

The robots which index your site are a programs, they are not human, and what looks great to the human eye may be totally meaningless to a program. You see the programs are looking for specific things and if they aren’t there, or if the wrong thing is there these programs give up and toss the search out.

The programs which search engines use can not see what images you place on your pages have in them. Nor can they read Flash elements, script languages, or multimedia formats.

It may look cool and work great, but if you are using Javascript links to navigate your website, search engines may not even be able to find it. If your site contains these types of elements, it is always a good idea to use a search engine spider simulator to evaluate how the site appears to the robots which will be indexing your pages.

One of the nice features of IB Promoter is that you can choose which simulator you want to run. This way you are able to test for different results on Goolge, Bing, Ask, or Yahoo.

Another problem which may be causing this to happen is errors in your HTML. It is very easy during the creation of a website, (as you add and delete elements to get just that right feel), to leave a bit of code that just might tell a search engine robot that your site ends at the very top of the page. You may never see these html errors as you test your website online in browsers like Internet Explorer or Firefox, in fact Internet Explorer is notorious for correcting small problems so that sites look good on their browser.

For this reason you should always check your code with a HTML validater such as the one found in the IBP suite.

As I stated above the programs which search engines send out to index websites are looking for specific things in particular places. When you are trying to be listed for certain keywords, these keywords have to be in the correct places as well as have the right density. If the density is to high your site will be penalized for word stuffing, if the density is too low or the words are not in the proper places these robot programs will not recognize them as key words.

One of the great features I have found with IBP is that this software compares your website to the top 10 pages for the keywords you are attempting to generate traffic for. Then the program gives you a detailed report describing where you need to place your keywords, the amount of words to use and the density in comparison to your complete word count.

And finally sometimes web servers send the wrong status code. When a robot requests a page from your site the server returns a code, this code should be 200 ok. Yet at times a server may send a 320 moved code or worst 404 not found result while the pages can be viewed on internet browsers with no problems. When this happens a robot spider simply thinks the site doesn’t exist and they give up.

Again these problems are easily found using a spider simulator like the one found in the IBP suite.

The tips here are some of the most common reasons websites are not being indexed, and I have found that the IB Promoter software I use does a great job of helping me locate and fix these problem on the sites I build.

So check out Internet Business Promoter, I’m sure they will be able to help you too.

　

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