Struggling to get indexed and ranked
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I am working on a brand new website and really struggling to get the site indexed and listed for it's business name! I don't normally struggle and have got clients ranked for much more challenging keywords so I'm a bit stuck!
The site is a new domain and has been live for about two months. The business previously used an old domain and this has been correctly 301'd to the new domain.
There is no duplicate content with any other website when checked through Copyscape.com
Webmaster Tools has been set-up and verified and this shows the site is being crawled but in Google site:www.website.com.au shows no pages as being indexed.
Google Places has been set-up and verified, the site has also been added to local citation sites.
There are also a few incoming links from other sources.
Robots.txt is fine and has been checked.
Business name mentioned in the title tag, footer and throughout the site.
Does anyone have any ideas how I might be able to get ranked or is it just a waiting game? Or have I missed out something really obvious?? My last step is doing a crawl test to see if this brings up anything I have missed.
Thanks
Karen
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High five, happy to help!
What do I win? Just kidding
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This is little funny as a whole...
Usually developers makes a little mistake while developing a website by adding no-index tag in the meta tag area... try and check the code on pages to see if Meta tag does not say no-index, no-follow!
If yes, just remove the tag and submit the sitemap again!
I have the same question as David, Is Bing crawling the website ATM?
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Thanks David, you're a genius There is a robots noindex via the meta tag!!! Thank you so much I really appreciate it.
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Might seem obvious but I've seen pages being robots noindexed via meta tag at the page level, checked for that:?
Have you tried the Fetch as Goole tool in Google Webmaster tools?
Checked for crawl errors in GWT?
Submitted an XML sitemap to Webmaster Tools?
Is Bing indexing it?
Let us know how you go!
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Thanks for the response and I don't think anything is overly simple at the moment
I didn't do the 301 redirect but there are no pages of the old domain indexed anymore so it looks like that has been done OK.
Karen
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Hi Karen,
It sounds like you investigating the right things. You mentioned that the old domain was 301-d to the new domain. My next question might be too obvious, so [please forgive me if it seem overly simple. What about all the pages on the old domain? Are they still indexed? Did you 301 just the domain, or did you also 301 all of the old pages to relevant new pages? I'm just trying to maybe help you get to the bottom of the problem by proceeding down the path you've already started by using the process of elimination.
Dana
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