By dan123-1 on

Hi all

I have submitted my drupal site , but everytime i searched it i get nothing. what went wrong ? is it sth that is realted from drupal . need help

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Marc Bijl’s picture

Marc Bijl commented

Usually it can take quite a while to get a site indexed at the search engines. Some people say it can take weeks or even months...

Of course a method is submitting a site at e.g. google.com itself. Another way however, is to try and find a regularly updated blog or something, e.g. from a friend or so, and create an article, a message, a reply, a comment, or whatsoever, including a link to your site. If the google bot scans that site every other day or so, it will find your site too just by following the link.

Using this method, I usually "submit" my clients websites (by temporarly creating a link at my own blog).

And last but not least, you can try gsitemap module (http://drupal.org/project/gsitemap), which can automatically create xml sitemaps that will be submitted to Google. Opinions about usefulness are different, but hey, why not shoot?

BTW
Google has a page too where you can submit sitemaps yourself: http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps

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drupalancers commented

I agree - I have done the following experiment several times:

1) I post an announcement about launching a clients website on my company's homepage
2) I manually submit to Google

1) always appears in the search engines long before 2). Try and search Google for the term "sandbox" and read what people are saying.

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edrupalec commented

it shouldn't take months for google to find your site if you've liked to it from a reasonable site. 2 days to 2 weeks. If you linked to it from a bad site, yours could have been banned.

as other said, use gsitemap.
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US421 commented

You could also have trouble if the domain name has expired in the past. In that case you would have to contact Google and have it relisted.