Why isn't my site not searchable from google?
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I am having a hard time figuring out why is it that when I search for my website name, it didn't show up in google's search result? Here's a link to my site. I've been twiddling for days looking for answers in my google webmaster tools. Here's a link of the crawl stats from google webmaster tool. As you can see it is actually crawling some pages. However my looking at my indexed status, I am getting 0 as you can see here (http://cl.ly/image/3G1R1p0b3k1P). I've double checked for my robots.txt and nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary there. I am not blocking anything. Any ideas why?
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Here is the link again. http://www.seobook.com/video-google-seo-friendly-page-titles
If it doesn't work, just copy from here and paste into your browser.
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The link to the example site isn't going anywhere. Can you repost?
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Here is a good video about title tags:
http://www.seobook.com/video-google-seo-friendly-page-titlesI have caught my web developer doing this and I straightened him out real quick. H1,H2,H3 etc are designed to give hierarchy to a web page. I think of it as a priority order of your content.
What happens is that it's real easy to put an H1 tag around text to make the font bigger and even use H2 tags to do the same. My web guy put an H1 tag around the phone number at the top of the page and that is what Google used to show in the description meta in search listings.
In short, you should use the tags as intended. Here is a link on the subject.
http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/headers/-Bob
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Thanks for the explanation. I am putting my brand name at the end of my title tag right? I wanted to use Shopious Directory when user searches for Shopious Directory and I wanted Shopious Directory to show up when a user searches for Shopious. Also can you explain the issue with H1? I will fix the domain privacy for this.
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I just don't think it's enough of a signal for Google just to put that in your title tag. Seems to be working ok in Yahoo and Bing search . If you search for "SHOPIOUS DIRECTORY" you do show up.
Most of the time, your Brand name will go at the end of your title tag. So now you have a conflict. Seems like you have an identity crisis. What is the true name of your business? Shopious, Shopious Indonesia, Shopious Directory
A couple of FYI's
You have multiple H1 tags on your home page. Probably not the greatest idea. If you are doing this to size text, probably better to do it with css.
You have registered your domain through GoDaddy and it looks like you have used your personal residence. If you did, you might want to purchase domain privacy to hide this.
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When you say business name.. you mean Google Plus or what are you referring to? I have a Shopious Directory in my title tag.
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Also, If I search for "Shopious Directory adalah direktori toko toko fashion" you are found as well so your site is being indexed. I just don't think you have used 'Shopious Directory' term all over your website enough for Google to pick it up as a brand.
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The thing is, you have nothing in your business name with "Shopious Directory" (and probably no google plus business page named that either that I could find) Your business name is ""Shopious Indonesia" and if you Google that it comes up just fine.
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Just the site it self 'Shopious Directory'
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I am searching Google for "shopious directory women" and there are entries that come up. Give me an example search term that is returning no results.
-Bob
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I'd also like to point out that I have some websites before that has no one linking to my site. For example this site. I never got any press release or people citing/linking this site. However, when I search for Bargains Closet. This search hits on top. Can you explain?
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Sorry if i caused any confusion in my reply.
The fact is that for some time now Google has treated sub-domains in roughly the same light as folders in the site (so blog.domain.com is akin to domain.com/blog/ to use the simplest example.
The problem isn't that your using a folder, unique domain or sub-domain, it's that the only thing pointing to it is weak (sorry - just calling a spade a spade to save us time). You need to get stronger strength to the page you're talking about and to do that you can either strengthen it or strengthen the TLD. Preferably both. When you can prove you "deserve" to be found ... you will.
Hope that helps.
Dave
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I asked this question a while ago about using subdomains and whther it has any impact on seo or not. People's arguments was that it has nothing to do with it and google would just treat this as a new website. Hence what i did was to just create a new site. But seems that from your response the parent's domain somehow has some effect on this mew site's SEO. So does this mean i have to fix the parents SEO first then this?
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If I have to put my bet on the table it's that there's no current reason for Google to believe that the page should rank. The URL is a sub of a weak domain. It knows it's there but has no reason to believe (at this time) that it should be trusted or warrant user attention.
Get some quality links to it and it will appear. Time will also do but without links it won't rank for anything but your name so ...
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