New site, has hard times getting Google to update the index

marketground · #1 (**permalink**) 11-20-2006, 07:23 PM

New site, has hard times getting Google to update the index

Hi, I have been struggling with this for couple of weeks now. I have bought a domain name, www.MarketGround.com, which I plan to convert to a popular classifieds forum. I bought it in September 2006. It had (has) PR of 4. I thought it was a good deal.

Except, I just can't get Google and MSN to reindex this site and show new pages of my site. It still (two months later!) shows the old 66 pages from the old site. The information of the old site is totally unrelated to this new one. By the way, Yahoo shows the new pages already.

Last month I created Google sitemap for MarketGround. When I log into the sitemap account, it says last crawl was on August 19th! And nothing since then! Yet when I look at logs, I can see googlebot there everyday.

Could you please tell me whats wrong? I waited for a month patiently. And now I am starting to get very worried.

Thank you very much!

**incrediblehelp** · #2 (**permalink**) 11-22-2006, 06:14 PM

The website looks indexed to me.

marketground · #3 (**permalink**) 11-22-2006, 06:46 PM

actually, accodring to the sitemaps, it was indexed on Nov 19!!!! Finally! What a relief!

**incrediblehelp** · #4 (**permalink**) 11-22-2006, 06:54 PM

yeah!