Why we are not coming up on google?

[priceshark]

hello, our site is www.priceshark.com and we seem to have a lot of urls and good content, but google has not indexed our pages for a while, can anyone tell me what is the reason?

Webmaster

[blinded]

did u pay Google?
guess u have to pay for index!

[dblanco66]

I just read this article on webpronews.com and it tells how a reporter made a test-site and within a week it had made it to the top at google. Here's the link http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20051221GuardianPlaysGoogleGameAndWins.html

[johnyfav]

did u pay Google?
guess u have to pay for index!

?????

The Guardian thing was how to get top but the 'niche' choosen was not competative at all - read matt cutts blog for more info!

[JuniorOnline]

we never paid google to get indexed

it does take time to get indexed.. how many months has the site been live?

[priceshark]

How do you pay google?

[google junky]

How do you pay google?

The poster "blinded" was being silly. You don't pay Google for placement

[google junky]

1. More Text content (keyword density)
A description about your site would atleast be good.

You only have 14 words of text showing up as google sees it and that text is actually from your dropdown menu.
The rest are links. So you actually have no on-page text other than your copyright stuff.
http://www.priceshark.com&hl=en&lr=&sa=G&strip=1]see (http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:
Along with the search engine needing this text it would be nice to tell your visitors who you are, why you exist, what the benefit is for them to be there and so on.


2. Homepage identity complex
Your opening page for the domain is having a identity complex.
You need to change all the links on all pages of your site that say [url]http://www.priceshark.com/home.html

and change them to http://www.priceshark.com/

That's a common mistake. You only want you main page to be known as one thing, as the domain.

[computergenius]

What no-one seems to have noticed is that Google has given you a high rating - you have a PR4 on your home page. So Google knows that you are there.

In the normal course of events, this PR should be passed down to your next level - click on Cars, for example, and I would expect to see a PR3 - but there is nothing.

So why is Google not indexing your other pages? My first thought was robots.txt telling it not to. But you don't have a robots.txt. BUT you have a custom 404, and if the file isn't found, then your home page is brought up. So, when Google asks for your robots.txt file to see where it is allowed to go, it gets your home page. I don't know, but I would think that this confused Google - and perhaps it goes away without looking. Never having seen this before, I couldn't say, but this is causing confusion if nothing else.

So my first suggestion would be to create a robots file to allow everything.

THEN (too late!) I decided to look at what Google knows about your site. You have 253 pages index, in the format
www.priceshark.com/productlist.php/ section=3/catId=20/scatid=1416
but you don't use that format... you use the format
http://www.priceshark.com/cat_second.html/14

All those 200+ pages that Google knows about don't seem to exist! This is where you need to create 301s, either in htaccess, or in dummy files.

You have simply confused the G!

[computergenius]

I just read this article on webpronews.com and it tells how a reporter made a test-site and within a week it had made it to the top at google. Here's the link http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20051221GuardianPlaysGoogleGameAndWins.html

You can get any site to the top of Google in that period, provided that the search term is one that no-one uses. Guardian played Google, but only won the first part.

And now their site will be flooded with visitors who have typed in "eco-friendly flip-flops" - and don't we all search for "eco-friendly flip-flops" at least once a day?

[computergenius]

I just read this article on webpronews.com and it tells how a reporter made a test-site and within a week it had made it to the top at google. Here's the link http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20051221GuardianPlaysGoogleGameAndWins.html

You can get any site to the top of Google in that period, provided that the search term is one that no-one uses. Guardian played Google, but only won the first part.

And now their site will be flooded with visitors who have typed in "eco-friendly flip-flops" - and don't we all search for "eco-friendly flip-flops" at least once a day?

[priceshark]

What text should we ad on the home page? This is a price comparsion web site which lists products and prices from different merchants!

Any ideas?

[ADAM Web Design]

Actually, I've noticed some similar behaviour as far as the Google crawlers are concerned. They seem to be slower in general and don't go as deeply.

It has been revealed that Google has a test DC up, so they may be working on that.

Personally, I smell a shakeup coming in the next few weeks.

My advice would be to keep generating inbound links and sit relatively tight for now.

[priceshark]

We have been waiting for almost a year and google isnt budging!

We are coming up good on MSN but google and yahoo, it has been a challenge.

[ADAM Web Design]

Under what keywords and phrases? I'm not asking to be a smartass...I just want to see what you're targeting.

[priceshark]

search for www.priceshark.com and 2,394 results containing www.priceshark.com come up on MSN

[dburdon]

Priceshark,

according to my data the Google cache for your site is dated 18th December - 4 days old. Google has also indexed 253 pages. Not bad. Your site is PR4 not bad.

Do you mean Google isn't ranking you in the SERPs?