I created a blogspot website few days back and even published a blog over there, but it is not indexed yet. What may be the reasons. I am 10 years old and a newbie here. So can anyone help me with my website being indexed? Website Link:
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This is a general, community wiki  question and answer pair intended to address any questions   concerning the reasons a site or specific site contents do not appear   in search engine results.      If your question was closed as a duplicate of this question and you   feel that the information provided here does not provide a sufficient   answer, please open a discussion on .   My site (or specific pages on my site) is not appearing in search engine results.  Why isn't my content indexed and what can I do about it?
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I've purchased a domain. I'm in the process of creating the website for that domain. This may take about a month.  In the mean time, what is the smartest thing to do with that domain, in terms of SEO?  For example, should I send a 204 No Content HTTP header? I know that's not the right thing to do but what is? I know that simply having a "Coming Soon" page is also bad for SEO.  Any advice?
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Currently look after 3 websites. I changed one of them to be HTTPS as it's ecommerce, however have seen a huge drop in organic traffic since this was implemented. Went from around 800 impressions to 400.   Any ideas as to why?   Very concerning as I expected it to improve if anything!  I set up 301 redirects to carry through to old pages to http://www.example.com/product1 would go to https://www.example.com/product1  I also set up a separate webmaster account for the HTTPs version as our integration wasn't working well with Google Merchant Centre, and data is flowing correctly but unsure why/if this would cause conflict.  Very confused!
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I am reviving/reorganising my personal WordPress blog.  It's using a URL that looks like this:  http://mydomain.com/blog  The webserver 301 redirects www.mydomain.com to mydomain.com.  I want to use the blog subdirectory because I plan to add other parts to the site, with the blog only being one part of the site.  However, at the moment there is nothing there but the blog, so I want to have the root index page redirect to the blog for the time being.  I have been using this on the root index.html page to do the redirect...  &lt;meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=./blog"&gt;  ...but this seemed to have stopped the site being indexed by Google and Bing.  How do I do this without affecting SEO?  Also, what URL should I put in the sitemap.xml?
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I changed the title and meta description of a web page.  It got re-indexed but still it shows in search results with the old title.  Why would this happen and how would we resolve it?
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I have done major updates to my website, and renamed all my URLs.  How can I tell Google that I have renamed these URLs and let Google refresh its index?  My website URL: http://www.pndmasr.com/  My sitemap: http://www.pndmasr.com/sitemap.xml  I have uploaded my sitemap via Google Webmaster Tools many times.  However, every time I search Google for "pndmasr", I still get results with old pages. I have waited more than 3 days but the problem remains. Any suggestions?  Is there a problem with my sitemap?
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My website is more than a year old and Google Webmaster Tools reports that I have over 1500 links to the site, yet my Google PageRank is still zero.  Is my website being penalised and why is my PageRank not updating?
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I've been trying to answer this question myself by researching and searching on google but I haven't been able to come with a final answer. I have some hypothesis I would like share anyway:   The average website intends to reach the higher audience possible. User generated content by comments is an efficient way of increasing the relevance and the valuable information of the average website. Indexing comments will make any site attractive to spammers. Indexing comments is more convenient for new/low-traffic websites than it is for old/high-traffic websites. The web in general is currently choosing not to index comments in the average website because of fear to the SPAMMERS. The average author of a content-valuable comment would like his comment to be indexed Not indexing comments discourages the creation of content-valuable comments.   So, what do you think finally? Is it positive or negative for the average website to allow search engines to index user comments? Why?
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I have a new website with 140k pages, according to my sitemaps.  After submission of my sitemap index to Google, the Googlebot has started crawling the site a couple of hours ago, and at a steady pace, but it's doing so too slowly: roughly one request per minute.  At such rate, it'll take 100 days for the site to be indexed!  Is there a way to increase the rate?  Why does all Google documentation suggest that they don't recommend changing the crawl rate, and that changing the crawl rate will only make the crawling slower?
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If I have example.com, and blog.example.com, do search engines see those as one site or two? Will using subdomains hurt SEO? I have some technical reasons why I can't use example.com/blog.
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I have an account on wordpress. I am writing blogs there. Now I have published my same blogs with same content over DZONE and geekswithblogs.net and few other . Now my question is whether the SEO ranking of wordpress blogs will be hit. If yes then may I know how can I prevent that to happen if I post the same content over the other blogs publishing sites. Can I cross-link (by giving the original link of wordpress) on other sites, will that help me to prevent the SEO hit ? Any other suggestions will be so helpful. Should I stop posting over other sites and remain stick to my original one?
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We are currently developing a site that currently has 8 million unique pages that will grow to about 20 million right away, and eventually to about 50 million or more.  Before you criticize... Yes, it provides unique, useful content. We continually process raw data from public records and by doing some data scrubbing, entity rollups, and relationship mapping, we've been able to generate quality content, developing a site that's quite useful and also unique, in part due to the breadth of the data.  It's PR is 0 (new domain, no links), and we're getting spidered at a rate of about 500 pages per day, putting us at about 30,000 pages indexed thus far. At this rate, it would take over 400 years to index all of our data.  I have two questions:   Is the rate of the indexing directly correlated to PR, and by that I mean is it correlated enough that by purchasing an old domain with good PR will get us to a workable indexing rate (in the neighborhood of 100,000 pages per day). Are there any SEO consultants who specialize in aiding the indexing process itself. We're otherwise doing very well with SEO, on-page especially, besides, the competition for our "long-tail" keyword phrases is pretty low, so our success hinges mostly on the number of pages indexed.   Our main competitor has achieved approx 20MM pages indexed in just over one year's time, along with an Alexa 2000-ish ranking.  Noteworthy qualities we have in place:   page download speed is pretty good (250-500 ms) no errors (no 404 or 500 errors when getting spidered) we use Google webmaster tools and login daily friendly URLs in place I'm afraid to submit sitemaps. Some SEO community postings suggest a new site with millions of pages and no PR is suspicious. There is a , too, in order to avoid increased scrutiny (at approx 2:30 in the video).      Clickable site links deliver all pages, no more than four pages deep and typically no more than 250(-ish) internal links on a page. Anchor text for internal links is logical and adds relevance hierarchically to the data on the detail pages. We had previously set the crawl rate to the highest on webmaster tools (only about a page every two seconds, max). I recently turned it back to "let Google decide" which is what is advised.
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For example, I  after using Google to try to find an answer. I then turned back to Google and did a search for  and it was already the first result! Similar searches also put my question on the first page, usually in the top 5!  This is insanity. Did I get lucky and post just before an indexing? Is the popularity of SO leading to Google indexing extremely frequently? Or is Jeff using some kind of crazy SEO?
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I am currently developing a website which is going to take some time to finish. I need to move some 'stuff' to production frequently, while maintaining a under construction status. My front page will clearly mention that my website is under construction.  I know crawlers will access my URL before I am ready to go live. Should I tell them my site is under construction (no need to index)? If yes how?  P.S.: Eventually, I am ok to let them see my under construction front page.
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I had a major issue in the last week where a site was found to be showing huge numbers of pages that it shouldn't have been. Naturally Google indexed all of these pages!   Rather than manually remove 5000+ links, I thought the nuclear option of removing the whole site would be the best option (using the Remove URL tool with no URL provided), since the site was poorly ranking anyway.   I had read that this was a good way to reset your site if you wanted to start over.  I removed the site, then after confirming that Google had removed it, I resubmitted the site for indexing and submitted a new sitemap and a new robots.txt to prevent indexing of the restricted pages.  The sitemap shows that it is indexed (or at least, a large portion of it is indexed) and I can see the Googlebot activity on the site.  However, on my dashboard I see severe health problems listed, with the main one being important page removed and a link to the removal request for the main site.  Furthermore, there are no links to the site in the Google index (when tested against site:example.com in a search).  Do I need to reinclude the site using the removal tool? If I do this, will it re-add all the bad URLs that I was trying to get rid of?
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I submitted a new version of the sitemap index for my site in Google Search Console two days ago. Soon after submission, GSC started saying that the index was "processed successfully", and yet has continued to display zero as the number of discovered URLs.  Note that my sitemap index points to about 11000 sitemaps, which provide actual links to pages.  I'm pretty sure the format of both the sitemap index and the individual sitemaps is correct.  Screenshot:    Should I worry about this? What does it mean?  Edit on 2020-02-03:  Google finally started displaying the right number in Total discovered URLs. It must have happened sometime in January. Why so late - I have no idea...
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My 1 blog is now 8-months old I receive on average anywhere from 700-1200 people per day, however it is not so much the acquisition numbers in terms of visitor count that interest me, it is the time on site spend, below you can see an image from  yesterday's traffic.    Currently my average visit time is 5.28min I have been working to increase this to 7-min by writing longer posts, which is rather difficult and also I am worried it will start to become to long for users.  When looking at my current time on site spend, would you say it is adequate for a sports niche blog?   If I can increase my time on site spend to say 7 or 8 min am I likely to see an increase in traffic, or am I wasting my time focusing on this?  QUESTION UPDATE  What I am asking is, if there is a direct correlation between time on on site spend from organic traffic to increased ranking?   As for longer content mentioned in comments, my posts are starting to average 2000-words and I am outranking many competitors without backlinks to those posts, so I will say that content length DOES play a direct role in rankings (even more so than backlinks IMO) I would like to know however, how much of a factor is time on site spend