Www.lavenderblue-flowers.co.uk
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Why does this website not appear ranked on google what so ever?
bit clueless, thanks for any responses!
Ewan
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And make sure you've submitted an up-to-date sitemap
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I would use canonical attribute to help fight duplicate content and use no-follow on a link basis.
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You may want to do some reading about using rel-canonical to help with duplicate content issues. Would be much more helpful than nofollow IMHO.
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Thanks for all the responses, certainly helped me feel abit less stupid!
Just to set the scene, im webmastering a vast quantity of e-com websites, many of these include duplicate content including the catalog etc, which is partially why there is noindex nofollows setup to try and avoid being bashed by PANDA.
Im not sure as to the history, il check out the historical page data later, see if it ever has been indexed, potentially could have been penalised as part of the PANDA rollout.
We have to set nofollow on some of the links and noindex because there is masses of duplicate content relating to the products/catalog side of things. The majority of the content i want index'd is just on the homepage, so If i just set the robots.txt to index for the homepage, i think this should ALLOW google to rank the website, when they can create some backlinks.
Thanks again guys (wishes he had enough dollah to keep his pro account!)
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I would agree with having issue with robots meta and robots.txt. I also do not see any link to your Facebook or Twitter page?
You need to start promoting your site, if you have not started already. Get onto Facebook, get friends to sign up, and share post. Start tweeting products. Get into some directories, and comment on blogs that are relevant.
I would put a Facebook LIKE and a ShareThis share chicklets on each product page so people can start sharing with friends.
I don't see Google Webmaster tools installed? Google Analytic? Google WM will allow you to submit your XML sitemap and adjust your crawl rate.
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The sites use of the robots meta tag may be a major cause of the issue.
The below is the robots tag on the homepage. This is telling search engines to index your homepage but not follow any links to interior pages.
The below is the robots tag on a random product page. This is telling search engines to not include the page in their indexes or follow any links on the page.
With the odd exception the majority of the robots meta tags should be set to the following. This is telling search engines to index the page and follow the links on the page to interior pages.
Once you have sorted this out I would:
- Set up Google Webmaster Tools and submit a sitemap
- Attempt to build some links
Good Luck
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These are all good points. And I agree, you should remove the index, nofollow.
There's a good article on nofollows here
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I have a few thoughts for you:
1. How old is the site? It will take some time for Google to index it, so if it's a brand new site then it may take several weeks (or even longer).
2. You have no external backlinks. This is how Google finds sites - when other ones link to you. It's also a major factor in how you do well in the search engine ranking...having other sites link to you tells Google that your site is worth looking at.
3. Why do you have your metarobots set at index,nofollow? The nofollow will mean that when Google crawls your site it won't follow any of the links that you have out from that page. I'm not sure, but it's possible that this tag has set up some sort of a flag for Google to say that something fishy is up. I think, but I'm not sure...that this would prevent internal linking of your pages as well, which is quite important.
I'd love for some of the more seasoned pros to comment on the use of index, nofollow.
Another question - has your site ever been in the index? If it was in the index before and now has dropped out then there may be a penalty.
p.s. I love Dorset..my family is from there...need to get back to visit some day!
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Hi Ewan,
Google might not have found it yet. Is the site new? I have good success putting a link to the new site page somewhere that I know google reads such as one of my established blogs or twitter or facebook. On some blogs, I have seen google index a page in less than 20 minutes after the post. You might try that.
Best of luck - Ken
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