Google Search on URL = Nothing

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  1. mrewald

    mrewald

    I have had a Domain name for a week now and a site up for approximately the same amount of time but when I do a google search I get nothing that shows my site. Bing returns nothing as well.

    www.markrewald.com is my domain name

    Am I just not being patient? Do I have to have a ton of traffic to my site for google to pick it up?

    I am very green to hosting web sites so please forgive the noobie questions.
     
    mrewald, Feb 7, 2010
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  2. mjp

    mjp

    A whole week! ;)

    I'm just giving you a hard time, but you may be jumping the gun a bit. Brand new domain, brand new site - give it some time.

    You don't need a lot of traffic to your site to get Google to index it, but the longer the site/domain is around, the quicker your changes and updates will be indexed. But your new site will get up there. Wait another week or so.

    You might also want to check out Google's Webmaster Tools. If you sign up there I think they have some site crawling controls that may speed up the process.
     
    mjp, Feb 8, 2010
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  3. Takeshi Eto

    Takeshi Eto DiscountASP.NET Staff

    Takeshi Eto, Feb 8, 2010
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  4. mrewald

    mrewald

    Did submit info to Google

    I did submit the web info using the google tools and I am still not getting any hits off of google or bing towards my web page. It has now been several weeks since I create the site and registered the domain name.

    Very frustrated.
     
    mrewald, Feb 11, 2010
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  5. Takeshi Eto

    Takeshi Eto DiscountASP.NET Staff

    Just because you submited your site to google doesn't mean that you will start getting traffic. Submitting you site is just one step. You also have to optimize your site to get favorable ranking in google. Looking at your site, your home page is just images. You have to add text with copy using the keywords that you wish people to find you under.

    Also, you need other sites out there to link to your site. Google uses this as a measure of how relevant a site is vs another site that may be about the same content.

    The bottomline is that to get traffic, you have to work for it. Building the site and submitting are just the first step. It's now about optimizing and continually adding relevant content to your site.

    You can visit search engine optimization and search engine marketing sites like searchenginewatch.com to get more information about this.
     
    Takeshi Eto, Feb 11, 2010
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  6. mrewald

    mrewald

    I am not attempting to get traffic at this point. I just want to go to google and type www.markrewald.com in the search box and get and see a search result that has a link to my site. Funny all my posts to this forum are coming up in google searchs but www.markrewald.com is not and that is almost immediately after I post.

    If what you are telling me is correct that I need to some how boost traffic to my site before my url shows in a google search result page by typing www.markrewald.com in the search box then I guess I will have to follow your recommendations.
     
    mrewald, Feb 12, 2010
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  7. Takeshi Eto

    Takeshi Eto DiscountASP.NET Staff

    The google bot is automated so when you submit your site to their index, it will crawl your site. If others link to your site, then google will see that when they crawl their site - so they will make a note of that and increase your relevancy.

    Also, google will come back and crawl your site in the future, but if nothing changed on your site, then it will delay coming back to reindex. And if nothing changed at that time, it will delay coming back even more. That is why having continually updated relevant content on the home page as text with using keywords that you think users would use to find you is so important.

    As for searching for your own domain in google not showing any results? You may want to submit your site again into google.
     
    Takeshi Eto, Feb 12, 2010
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  8. mjp

    mjp

    A Google search of the domain does bring up your site now:

    Mark Rewald Photography
    Portfolio. Mark Rewald Photography. Copyright 2010 Mark Rewald Photography. All rights reserved.
    www.markrewald.com/ - Cached​

    So does a search for "Mark Rewald Photography" and "Mark Rewald."
     
    mjp, Feb 12, 2010
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