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Originally Posted by pdrew
Hi!
Looking to find out why Google isn't indexing new articles I put up on my site. The site is Peter Drew Voiceovers|Voice over talent, same-day voiceovers.
I was ranked in the top 5 for both of my top two keywords for years. I started to slip because I wasn't adding new content, so I added articles and yet they aren't being indexed. I know I also need to start a blog and link back to my site and built more back links, but if my content isn't being indexed those things aren't going to be that much help.
The last three articles in the list of links on the left hand side of
the home page are not indexed. Yahoo! has indexed all of my articles, including the three newest ones: Stop the Stumbles, Sending Voiceovers Using FTP, and Voiceovers and Ever-Changing English.
I just checked my web stats and saw that Google crawled my site 7 times so far this week, yet it still hasn't picked up these new
pages. Could it be the URLs? I believe I forgot to re-write the
automatically generated URLs to make them short enough so that they wouldn't be truncated by my web design program.
I know I have the option of creating a Google Site Map. Would that help? Should I re-write the URLs and do a 301 redirect to the new shorter URLs?
People are asking for permission to re-print the articles but I don't want them to publish them on their pages until the article is indexed first in Google.
Thanks for any insights on how to get my pages indexed on Google.
Sincerely,
Peter Drew |
Peter! The first one of the three, "stop the stumbles" is indexed and even has a tool bar page rank. The bottom two are indeed un-indexed! This probably means that Google hasn't bothered going to them. This may be because you haven't added any content for a bit and google only "skimmed" the site when it last visited. Have you attracted any links to these pages yet? That would do it!
Go to
Create your Google Sitemap Online - XML Sitemaps Generator and generate an xml sitemap which you should then submit to Google Webmaster Tools. If youre not sure about this process then google "xml sitemaps" and you'll easily find a guide of some sort.
I think youre right to not let anyone else publish the documents before google caches the originals. Get the xml sitemap and G should pick the pages up straight away.
Im getting a bit off topic here... The coding of your site isnt great and quite bloated with unessecary <span> tags and such, try and reduce the amount of coding on your pages if you can. Also, you have a duplicate home page issue with the "home" link going back to url/index.html - bad move! Change the menu to link back to www. your url. com and 301 redirect the www. your url .com/index.html to www. your url. com (remove spaces!)