how long will goolge and yahoo fully index my pages

rapwaydown · Dec 2nd, 2007, 16:57

how long will it take for google and yahoo to fully index my pages

hi, i submit my site along with the sitemap to google and yahoo some days ago, but google only index my home page and yahoo didnt even index any of my page.
so my question how long will it take for them to fully index my pages.
and why when i type my url into google search, i got the following:

Index of /
Index of /. Name Last modified Size Description. [DIR] Parent Directory 21-Nov-2007 23:30 - [DIR] cgi-bin/ 21-Nov-2007 10:47 - ...
www.2learnknowledge.com/?S=A -

see what happen, google display my site's name as "index of/", well my site actual name is 2learnknowledge
any idea.

alexgeek · Dec 2nd, 2007, 17:07

Google probably indexed your site whilst you did not have an index page (index.php or index.html etc)

Give it time and they will re-index you.
You can make this process faster by having lots of backlinks to your site from other sites.

rapwaydown · Dec 2nd, 2007, 17:38

Quote:

Google probably indexed your site whilst you did not have an index page (index.php or index.html etc)

when i submit my site to google, my site has a index.html page
and it show up on msn search, i submit my site to msn, yahoo and google at the same time.

Marc · Dec 2nd, 2007, 17:42

Search engines can take any amount each time to index you and no search engine's take the same time to index you.

alexgeek · Dec 2nd, 2007, 17:50

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Originally Posted by rapwaydown

when i submit my site to google, my site has a index.html page
and it show up on msn search, i submit my site to msn, yahoo and google at the same time.

Google may have indexed your site before you submitted it.
And before you submitted it you most likely didn't have an index page.

rapwaydown · Dec 2nd, 2007, 18:13

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Google may have indexed your site before you submitted it.
And before you submitted it you most likely didn't have an index page.

ok, i got it now, but its been like 3 days now, i ask google to re-crawl my site, but nothin change.
how long did google took to index your index page.

MikeHopley · Dec 2nd, 2007, 18:18

Hmm. I never have this trouble.

Make sure your pages are linked together. If you have an orphan page, it will be hard for Google to find it (and hard for users too!).

rapwaydown · Dec 2nd, 2007, 18:22

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Hmm. I never have this trouble.

Make sure your pages are linked together. If you have an orphan page, it will be hard for Google to find it (and hard for users too!).

all my pages are link together, could it be the software i use to build this website, i use xsitepro to build this website.

MikeHopley · Dec 2nd, 2007, 19:47

Depends.

If xsitepro produces utter garbage, then perhaps that's the problem.

Make sure your links are real links, not javascript links.

rapwaydown · Dec 2nd, 2007, 21:04

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Make sure your links are real links, not javascript links.

how can i tell of the link is real or javascript

alexgeek · Dec 2nd, 2007, 21:15

If it's a real link it will be in an <a> tag in the source.

MikeHopley · Dec 2nd, 2007, 23:13

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Originally Posted by alexgeek

If it's a real link it will be in an <a> tag in the source.

Careful! So will javascript links.

Real link:

Code: Select all

 <a href="somePage.html">Link text</a>

Javascript link (bad):

Code: Select all

<a href="#" onclick="javascript: openPage('somePage.html')>Link text</a>

...or something like that, anyway. It's been so long since I used an inline event handler, I've forgotten how to write them.

It's hard to believe people are stupid enough to use this method; but if experience teaches you anything, it should be to expect people to do stupid things.

allsquare · Dec 5th, 2007, 14:42

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Originally Posted by MikeHopley

It's hard to believe people are stupid enough to use this method; but if experience teaches you anything, it should be to expect people to do stupid things.

Well, what method then do you recommend?

alexgeek · Dec 5th, 2007, 18:11

This one obviously (it's real, good for SEO and people who have disabled JS)

HTML: Select all

 <a href="somePage.html">Link text</a>

maneetpuri · Dec 13th, 2007, 04:07

Hi Rapwaydown,

It looks like you have used java links in your websites which is why Google is finding it difficult to crawl your website. However, if you want to have Google, Yahoo and MSN index your website faster, it's a good idea to get many back links by following many SEO techniques such as article submission, blog posting, Directory submission, and stuff like that.