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1. jupaneanu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I know this isn't really a specifically Wordpress related question but I searched the web and couldn't find an answer to my problem.

   I've launched my blog about a week ago, I had the domain name bought from earlier, but the blog itself opened to the public a week ago. And so far in my stats it appears I received no search engine traffic from anyone, be they google, yahoo, msn, you name it. Is there something wrong, do I need to wait it out, is there any way to let them know I've created my blog?

   Also when I enter my domain name in the search engine window google only finds some of my articles on Technorati and Digg, while msn doesn't find anything related to my blog. It's really starting to freak me out.

   HELP please, thanks in advance

2. mrmist
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Are you in Google's index? If your site has not been crawled, it won't show up.

   Have you submitted a site map?

   Try www.google.com/webmasters/

3. Haecceity
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   It takes time to get picked up and indexed by search engines. There's nothing to worry about.

   You may also rank very poorly on Google for a long time. I'd suggest you do a lot of commenting on other people's blogs. If you make intelligent comments this will encourage them to visit your site and maybe link to your posts. You need links in order to get PageRank.

4. whooami
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You need meaningful links in order to get PageRank.

   A link from a site about dogs to your site about motorcycles means very little to Google.

5. jupaneanu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thank everyone for all explanations, I really hope you're right and there's really nothing wrong...only thing I'm still worried about is I can't even find my home URL in a search, it's not that it appears further down the pages , it simply doesn't appear.

   Thanks again!

6. jeremyclark13
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   If you have submitted you blog to the search engine and you don't have any other links from other sites then you on a deserted island as far as Google is concerned. They have no way to know your their. Take mrmist's advice and sign up for Google webmasters, then be patient.

7. jupaneanu
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I've already done that, thank you...and now we wait

8. Haecceity
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   > You need meaningful links in order to get PageRank.

   > A link from a site about dogs to your site about motorcycles means very little to Google.

   To be a wee bit pedantic, Pagerank is independent of content -- it's just a measure of how many incoming links "vote" for a page (and those votes count more the more links are pointing at the pages with the incoming links, and so on). Google, for example, has a PageRank of 10, and very few of the sites linking to it are search engines.

   But from the point of view of how relevant Google sees you for a particular set of keywords the second part of what Whoo says is bang on. You really want to get people who blog on the same theme as you to link to your articles. It's especially good if the anchor text in the incoming links is relevant to the theme of the post, but you've no control over that.

   And especially avoid linking to irrelevant sites in order to get them to link back to you. You'd be wasting your pixels.

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