Google indexing queries

19 Nov 09 11:08 pm

Google will find your site if you submit it to them through http://www.google.com/webmasters. Your site will then be added to their index.

To check if your site is currently included in Google's index, do a site: search for your site's URL. Type in "site:yourwebsite.com" (without the quotation marks) in Google and the sites with that URL will be displayed on the search results.

06 Jan 10 4:12 pm

Does anyone know how long it might take, to get your site indexed?

Thank you,

08 Jan 10 8:32 pm

Hi,
I have yet to complete building my site but have been concentrating on getting the TT score to A+. After some initial hiccups have reached that point so now will get all my articles completed and published. If I enter my site into google search it comes up at top of the list on the first page but if I enter any of my keywords it is nowhere to be seen. I guess (and hope!!) that on completion and after building backlinks and further optomization it will appear when I enter SEO phrase in the search box. Is that the case and if so does that eventuality take very long?

08 Feb 10 5:00 am

michellerana wrote:Google will find your site if you submit it to them through http://www.google.com/webmasters. Your site will then be added to their index.

To check if your site is currently included in Google's index, do a site: search for your site's URL. Type in "site:yourwebsite.com" (without the quotation marks) in Google and the sites with that URL will be displayed on the search results.

I typed in "site:johnsmith.com" (not the real name of the site) and got nothing
I typed in "http://johnsmith.com" and went straight to the site

the site has got links to it and has Google Analytics installed, and has been going for some time but it started life as http:www.johnsmith.com/blogwp but I got my Host to remove the "blogwp" and I re-input the new url successfully into G.A I also submitted it to Google webmaster tools- don't know if I should have submitted it first to the "Google addurl" link first??.
Can someone tell me if the site been indexed or not?

09 Feb 10 4:32 am

Thanks clarafaie
Actually I added my site to Google webmaster tools months ago,it is verified and it comes up with Links to my site, crawl errors and a tick next to the word sitemap.xml. So why, when I type in site:http://johnsmith.com does nothing show up?

Another query: if I have added my site to Webmaster tools, do I still need to "addurl" to Goofgle at this link- http://www.google.com.au/addurl/, because I may have forgotten to do so originally when I set up my site?

28 Feb 10 10:15 pm

Have you tried both possible versions of your site? You can type site:http://www.yoursite.com AND site:http://yoursite.com

It might be that you are indexed in Google with one version and not the other, or worse, both. You should use Google Webmaster Tools to tell Google which version you wish to be known by, use full URLs internally (e,g in your site navigation and internal linking), so that the "www" or the non-www isnot implied, but is explicit.

Liz