New Web Page Not Indexed
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Quick question with probably a straightforward answer...
We created a new page on our site 4 days ago, it was in fact a mini-site page though I don't think that makes a difference...
To date, the page is not indexed and when I use 'Fetch as Google' in WT I get a 'Not Found' fetch status...
I have also used the'Submit URL' in WT which seemed to work ok...
We have even resorted to 'pinging' using Pinglar and Ping-O-Matic though we have done this cautiously!
I know social media is probably the answer but we have been trying to hold back on that tactic as the page relates to a product that hasn't quite launched yet and we do not want to cause any issues with the vendor!
That said, I think we might have to look at sharing the page socially unless anyone has any other ideas?
Many thanks
Andy
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Yep, I guess they probably wish they could change it! Have a look at their corporate website and you'll see that they just drop the ampersand from their domain name.
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Thanks Doug, we had a suspicion it might the the & which is a bit of a problem considering who the vendor is!
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Screaming Frog cannot crawl the page - 404 Not Found so I guess I need to look into this a little deeper...
Thanks for your responses!
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Thanks Andy, I got the PM. Looking at the URL, I would suggest that your problems are likely to be the result of the & character being used in the URL.
From: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html
"...only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL."
The & is one such reserved character and has a special meaning in URLs. You'll see it being used to separate URL parameters.
Hope this helps!
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Have you looked into your robots or made sure its not no indexed as fetch as Google should work it it cant access the page then it may be a deeper issue. It's not behind any thing that may prevent robots crawling it. You can also try screaming frog to see if a crawler can in fact crawl the page.
Once you know that bots can crawl the page then you can work out why from there.
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Go here : https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url?pli=1
Submit your URL and it will get Indexed within few Seconds
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Thanks Doug, sending PM...
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Andy, it's tough to say without looking at the url/page in question. Can you tell us what the page is? If you're not happy to do so in public, then feel free to send me a private message with the URL and I'll take a look.
Have you tried something like http://web-sniffer.net/ to check the page and the response code that's being returned?
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