site not showing up in search engines

Hi Everyone,

Please help. I uploaded my site about two days ago, but even if i put in the complete URL in Google search i.e. https://www.mysite.com it still doesn't find it.
I went and added the URL with Google but still no luck. Can someone please shed some light on it?
I am planning to run adwords campaigns etc but i want to atleast showup first !!!

Please an urgent response will be highly appreciated.

many thanks

1. What is the TLD of your site... ? Is it COM, or CO.UK, or COM.AU ???

2. Where is your site LOCATED (geographically... UK, USA, AUSTRALIA)?

Reason for question...

If you have DOT COM as your TLD and you are based in the UK, Google will give you a lower ranking on country-specific searches. You have to "correct" this in Google.

You must sign up for a Google "webmaster" account, as you will need it to make this correction (if necessary), as well as configure your site for "Sitemaps" and other basic google webmaster tools.

Spend some time at Google, reading up about how to configure your site so that it is "google-friendly".

Additionally, you seem a little impatient... Google may not reflect your presence for some weeks. Speed up the process by following what I suggest above.

... and then, when you have got your google settings in order, think about configuring your zen shop for meta tags, xml sitemaps and googlebase feeds...

And only 2 days waiting? I wouldn't stress over that!

Hi

Thank you replying it is .au domain and hosted in australia as well.
I will setup a webmaster account now.

Yes slightly impatient as took me fair bit more than developing it so :) but i do understand your point.

One other thing would doing ADWORDS at this stage be any help?

many thanks

I am having the same waiting game too. I can see Googlebot and Yahoo Slurp crawling my site but it crawls your site and caches the information for inclusion in the next search engine refresh. Even though it crawls your site it may not necessarily show up straight away in the search engine. All you can do is wait unfortunately. Whats your site name mimran? I will put a link on my other website to your website. My other website gets around 4000-5000 page crawls a month by Googlebot and Yahoo Slurp so a link to your site should open up the gate for the spiders to start crawling your site.

My personal feeling about Adwords is that the only one making good money from them is Google!

In the early days of a website, Adwords may drive some traffic to your site, but to make the cost of this form of marketing justifiable, you need to do a lot to ensure you CONVERT those visits to paying customers.

This is more about MARKETING and not so much about TECHNOLOGY.

If your products are desirable, well-priced and attractively presented - and your site is simple to navigate, you will get sales.

You should also consider incentivising prospective customers with a special offer that has a time-limit, or giving a benefit that your competitors may not be offering.

The first thing to research is your competitors. See what they are offering, and at what prices. Determine what makes you different and more "attractive", and make sure you deliver this message to your site visitors.

I have found that making efforts to become more "personal" with customers pays off too. Make your telephone number prominent, and encourage people to call you - don't just rely on the "anonymity" of a website - good business takes place between PEOPLE, not computers.

Give potential customers CONFIDENCE by:-

1. Stating clearly your shipping and returns cost/policies.
2. Prominently displaying your physical address and phone number.
3. Demonstrating your commitment to data privacy and security (I ALWAYS have dedicated SSL).
4. Good, crisp and large images of the product.
5. Simple, clear and straight-forward product descriptions.
6. Lots of online "help" that is in the background, but can be accessed if necessary.
7. Avoid "histrionics" - turn OFF all those extraneous sideboxes that act as distractions. (Who's Online - "who cares!", Write A Review "no-one ever does"... ect).
8. Get the customer to the product page and "add to cart" button in as few clicks as possible.

HI Fairestcape,

Thank you for such a detailed response you have always been very helpful.
Well most of the points you mentioned i have already done that, well i rather did my research first then built the site so i am fully aware of my position against competitors but now is a matter of presence i have to be visible for other people to see me only then i can apply my incentives and other benefits.
I will follow all the steps and will update with the progress.

many thanks

hi
well have done the webmaster setup, and checked in my status etc. it says google has not indexed me as yet so stay patient. :)
i went to my cpanel and looked at last 300 visitors it shows me googlebot. tried sometime today but was shown page 404 which is page not found, can't understand why?
any help please

regards

Hi Again,

My site is still not showing up in Google, though MSN only took a day and if i put the URL now it does show the site name and spits out all the meta tags.

It is almost a week now, but what i am finding really strange is that this thread is already accessible in google. :(

mimran:

Yes slightly impatient as took me fair bit more than developing it so :) but i do understand your point.
Just an added point that others might see and benefit from - Sorry it is too late for you to gain any benefit -

As soon as you obtain a domain name and begin building - even though not complete - get it listed at google and others. So if it takes you 2-6 months to complete you are being crawled during this time and if you are actively adding product and changing content they will see "New" content for your site - Re-submit at least weekly when you are making these changes to invite them to see what has changed.

By the time you are completed and ready - you will have some momentum and not have to begin from ground zero.

hi Kobra

thank you for that input, but yes i guess a bit late for me though. but having said that is there anything i can do? which i have not already done :

a) have submitted url and maps, and have done my webmaster stuff as well.

but what troubles me is even if i start listing stuff no one will find me unless they knew the direct URL and that is really really annoying :(

any help????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

mimran:

hi Kobra

thank you for that input, but yes i guess a bit late for me though. but having said that is there anything i can do? which i have not already done :

a) have submitted url and maps, and have done my webmaster stuff as well.

but what troubles me is even if i start listing stuff no one will find me unless they knew the direct URL and that is really really annoying :(

any help????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Out of curiosity, what is your site address ?

about the best you can hope for is to get some links out there,
in blogs forums etc......
drive some traffic to your site.

and then play the wait game

Unfortunatly the net isnt an Iowa cornfield.

mimran:

hi Kobra

thank you for that input, but yes i guess a bit late for me though. but having said that is there anything i can do? which i have not already done :

a) have submitted url and maps, and have done my webmaster stuff as well.

but what troubles me is even if i start listing stuff no one will find me unless they knew the direct URL and that is really really annoying :(

any help????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Getting indexed in Google is only the first step! If you've submitted your site to Google that helps but indexing can still take a long time. We've had some luck in quicker indexing by purchasing Google Adwords with a dollar-a-day budget. Links from other sites can help, too.

However, getting indexed doesn't mean much. To start showing up in search results, you need good metatags, page titles and descriptions (properties) for your pages and good keywords on your page text. There's a reason why the search engine optimization/search engine marketing industry exists and earns big bucks. It's a time-consuming effort with valuable results. You can pay for it or do it yourself. All this can seem pretty overwhelming, but remember you don't have to beat everyone on the Internet, just your competitors. Make a list of keywords and phrases your customers might use to find a site like yours. Then do searches to check out your competition. Look at their page titles, descriptions and keywords. Don't copy them, but use for ideas. Also--something you'll appreciate when your site is two years old--Google rewards site aging, the older the better. Many sites get abandoned so Google wants to recommend sites that have been around for awhile, proven themselves. The Google "sandbox" may or may not exist but some of our sites didn't show up in search results for 6 months, then popped up near the top!