Google Not Indexing One Page Site
hi
this is my first website and i am completely new to drupal, google webmaster tools and google analytics.
http://BuyMyHouse.CO.CC is a free domain which i am redirecting to http://perrybarr.byethost10.com
http://perrybarr.byethost10.com is the site i registered with google.
probably this is something obvious, but after 2 days of searching the forums and the wider internet, i am still lost as to why no pages are index at all.
when i do a search for perrybarr.byethost10.com on google, it does not show my site anywhere but it shows other sites which are linking to mine. webmaster tools says there are no crawl errors and says my robots.txt is not producing errors.
it is a one page site only, so i am not sure if this makes a difference. i have clean urls enabled in the config and i am using several modules including seo and firestats.
any guidance would be much appreciated.
thanks!
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It can take time to get indexed (sometimes a long long time), also the bot might be choking on the redirect depending on how this is set up.
I wouldn't bank on getting much if any search traffic, real estate is hugely competitive and your site will well down the search results for a long time, sorry but a one page add for a house just can't compete against the other zillion sites selling property.
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thank you for your help; it
thank you for your help; it is much appreciated.
to be honest, my questions were more academic than anything else. i dont expect to find a buyer through google.
it is my first website and i hate not understanding where i am going wrong.
what i dont understand is how a google search for my domain brings up advertisements linking to my site, yet webmaster tools says i do not have any pages linking to my site... i feel like alice :)
i have justr realised google is saying there is no robots.txt. i cant find the citation but i thought drupal creates one for me? if anyone can advise where i can find the correct robots, i would be most grateful.
thanks again
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A robots.txt file does come with Drupal, in the root folder, so it should be there, although not having one wont preclude you form being indexed, robots.txt files are for excluding pages from being indexed, not including.
The reason google can find sites with links to your site is that they are already in the index (those sites) so if they add new links/pages etc google picks them up quickly, however its the whole "getting started" bit that can take a while.
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