No matter what I do, my website isn't showing up in search results. What's happening?

[Wabash]

I've checked for meta-robots, all SEO tags are fixed, reindexed with google-- basically everything and it's not showing up. According to SEOMoz all looks fine, I am making a few fixes, but nothing terribly major. It's a new website, and i know it takes a while, but there is no movement here in a month. Any insights here?

[irvingw]

Might sound like a silly question, but did you set up a WMT account and verify the site? Doing so tells Google to crawl your site ASAP.

If you don't have any links to your site, then simply opening it up to the world isn't enough for Google to come along, you need to tell Google you exist.

[MarieHaynes]

I have seen sites take 6 weeks or more to appear on Google.  Often you will get indexed first which means that if you search for your url then you will be there, but your keywords still aren't ranked.  Then,it can take a couple of more weeks to rank your keywords.

Check your robots.txt to make sure you're not blocking search engines.

If it's still not coming up in a few weeks and if this is a new domain you may want to consider filing a reconsideration request to see if the previous owner (if there was one) had incurred a penalty.

[KeriMorgret]

Is your website showing up if you do a search on the domain name? Is it showing up in any of the search engines? Trying to figure out here if it's an issue with it being crawled/indexed, or if it's an issue with not ranking but actually being in the index.

[ahockley]

I once ran into a similar situation with a new website with a domain I'd purchased.  Turns out that a previous owner of the domain had apparently been doing problematic things.

I submitted a reinclusion request to Google, indicated that this was a new domain, provided evidence of a few legitimate backlinks, and asked if they could look into the matter.

Within a few days, I was included in search results.