Getting Google To Re-Index Your New Website

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A reader writes:

When I do a search for my site in google you will see that the blue text underneath the url says that it is a new site hosed by fasthosts (my hosting company). It doesn’t seemed to have picked up any of the text in the site.

What’s happened is that in between the time you registered the website name and actually put up your content, Google indexed that page, which at the time was a place-holder put up by your hosting company, and Google indexed that info.

When Google finds and indexes your website again, your real info from your actual website will be found, but first Google needs to find your website. You need to have another website linking to you so Google can find it.

Since your website is about building confidence, reply to some discussion forum posts about tips on increasing confidence, and link from those posts to your website.

That way:

  1. Google will find your website again through those links to your website
  2. You can also get visitors to your website through your discussion board posts

You can submit your website manually to Google here:

http://www.google.com/addurl

…But the general consensus is that Google will look more favorably on your website if it finds your site organically (through another site’s link) as opposed to a direct submission through that link.

Hope that helps, and best of luck to you.

PS – Quick suggestions for your website:

1) Your photo is too dark, I’d get a better quality photo to put up to look more professional

2) You listed your qualifications for being a Confidence Coach in a small box running down the left-hand site of your website. That’s important information that you’re hiding somewhat (why someone should listen to you). That info should be listed across the top of the page as the first thing your visitors see, so they instantly know you’re a credible authority they should listen to.

Tell you what, I’ll link to your website here to help Google get to your website and re-index it. Another tip for linking is that the best link to have is one with your main keywords actually in them, so I’m going to link to your website using your two-word description: Confidence Coach

(Edit: 4 days later, I checked and his “Confidence Coach” site has now been indexed by Google, problem solved)

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  1. rick
    1465 days ago

    You can also submit your own site to delicious, etc.


  2. REO AGENT
    959 days ago

    Good info. I’ve been doing what you recommended for about a week but still nothing. I’ll try the delicious thing too. I am learning that no one really knows exactly what Google does and how they do it. People have some good basic understanding of the way it works but how Google shakes and bakes it is a friggin mystery.http://www.bpos4reos.com/blog

    Thanks for the tips.


  3. RG
    920 days ago

    So in theory, this should help my Biztalk Server Monitoring site. Http://www.ragingbulltech.com


  4. Guido
    821 days ago

    Also often it helps to also social bookmark the sites were you have put the links up. That way the page your link is on will be crawled faster, and your link will be followed faster. However make sure the link you are placing is on a do follow site.


  5. Smistir
    788 days ago

    Found this site to be very interesting (even though a year late).. I am an ‘up-and-comer’ who is trying to build a website about my interests – software. I know that its all about content and its something that I am working on. But, a big curiousity of has always been how Google does the search results updates. Until recently my focus has been on design and layout but now is time to start doing content. Certainly not in it for the money at the moment .. just focusing on it for the fun of software!! I certainly would appreciate any/all feedback about my site. http://www.devstash.com. Enjoyed the article.. ~ R


  6. Chris Walch
    642 days ago

    Great Information thanks for the advice, hopefully my new content will get indexed again!


  7. Coder
    641 days ago

    Thanks for the help, i needed some help on that I keep adding new content to get a first place spot in Google but Google just indexes way to slow. Ill try to get some links. O.H

    I would appreciate if you guys would check my self-help site out http://www.codeofliving.com.

    Thanks again


  8. Rob
    625 days ago

    Nice post, I was wondering how to get re-indexed faster. Hopefully this will help then.


  9. Rob
    622 days ago

    I too am having the same dilema with regards to optimal organic SEO. One thing that I have found is that you have to balance the keywords and description to the text that is located on the main page. I found that keyword density is very important.

    ~ Still Learning.. :)


  10. Matt
    530 days ago

    Great post. Most businesses are unaware that they can request the search engine spiders to crawl their site. The more they crawl and find updated content, the higher a site will rank.

    Thanks.

    Matt


  11. Robzilla
    521 days ago

    Cool post. I think if you use Wp that your site will re-index automatically when you re-save the settings.


  12. John
    508 days ago

    I read recently about a site that was still under construction that was indexed with all the “lorum ipsum” stuff on it. It took over two months for it to be re-indexed with the actual content. What a nightmare!


  13. Chris
    497 days ago

    Yeah, I’ve been frustrated because our site http://www.notarynow.com hasn’t been reindexed for a while (killing our relevancy for online notary!)I would think that updates that people tell google to update on an intermitent basis would be the most relevant. Here’s hoping we get in those rankings soon!
    -Chris


  14. chennaiportal
    345 days ago

    Thanks for the advice,My site http://www.chennaiportal.in hasn’t been reindexed for a while
    I would appreciate any feedback on this.


  15. sean
    224 days ago

    Hi.
    I updated my site ( http://scrapmycars.com )
    from still html pages to wordpress and google still shows the old data. I took your suggestion and see what will happen in the next few days., weeks..


  16. Alex
    178 days ago

    Fustrating, but worth a try :)


  17. Mike
    158 days ago

    We have been waiting for 4 weeks for re-indexing…


  18. Nick
    157 days ago

    I have the same problem. I knew my website was down and was hoping the couple of days it took to fix wouldn’t mean it gets indexed with the error messages. Finally got an offline page to show, so hopefully http://www.brickcreative.com will re index soon!


  19. Danny
    86 days ago

    I think one thing about reindexing was not told in this thread:
    If you have got a blog that needs to be reindexed you propably should write a few articles in which you link in the needed areas. But the trick would be to set in the Settings a “few more” Ping Services. All you need to know is in the WordPress Codex at http://codex.wordpress.org/Update_Services that helped my site http://padtapnews.com to get indexed in a swiftly way.