[pmwiki-users] help: Google not indexing the entire site

[Tegan Dowling]

On 6/1/06, bram brambring <bram.brambring at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/06, Allister Jenks <arj at zkarj.co.nz> wrote:
> > On 6/2/06, bram brambring <bram.brambring at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It can take a couple of monty before the googlebot really starts going.
> >
> > My site has been online since April 19th and I still don't even get a
> > mention in Google.  We're at least in Yahoo! and MSN by now.  MSN was
> > quickest at about 3 weeks, Yahoo! only after about 5 weeks, Google at
> > about 7 weeks and counting...
>
>
> Even not when you google with
>
> site:domainname.whatever ?
>
> Main thing is to have some incoming links to your site otherwise
> google will not bother. The infamous PageRank is not a major factor
> anymore in how HIGH you rank, but you will still need incoming links
> to get indexed.

Right.  Do google both
site:domainname.whatever #indicates whether google has even found it
and
link:domainname.whatever #indicates links *to* it that google has found.

Also, it couldn't hurt to run html validation on it - plug its address
into the form on http://validator.w3.org/