A) My web pages have never been included
in the Google index.
Google is a mechanized search engine, which employs robots known
as 'spiders' to crawl the web on a monthly basis and find sites for inclusion
in the Google index. Please review the basics
of submitting your site to learn more.
1. Reasons your site may not be included.
- Your pages are dynamically generated. We are able to index
dynamically generated pages. However, because our web crawler can easily overwhelm
and crash sites serving dynamic content, we limit the amount of dynamic pages
we index.
- You employ doorway pages. Google does not encourage the use
of doorway pages. We want to point users to content pages, not to doorways
or splash screens.
- Your page uses frames. Google supports frames to the extent
that it can. Frames tend to cause problems with search engines, bookmarks,
emailing links and so on, because frames don't fit the conceptual model of
the web (every page corresponds to a single URL). If a user's query matches
the site as a whole, Google returns the frame set. If a user's query matches
an individual page on the site, Google returns that page. That individual
page is not displayed in a frame -- because there may be no frame set corresponding
to that page.
- If you are concerned with the description of your site as seen
by search engines, please read "Search
Engines and Frames". It describes the use of the 'NoFrames' tag,
which is used to provide alternative content. If, instead of providing alternative
content, you use wording such as "This site requires the use of frames"
or "Upgrade your browser", then you are excluding both search engines
and people who use browsers with frames turned off. (For example, audio web
browsers, such as those used in automobiles and by the visually impaired,
typically do not deal with frames, which are a visual mechanism.) You can
read about NoFrames in the HTML standard here: http:www.w3.orgTRREC-html40presentframes.html#h-16.4
2. Google does not index all of my pages.
Why?
Although we index more than 3 billion web pages, we cannot guarantee
that we will crawl all the pages on a particular site. However, we are always
working to increase the number of pages we crawl and hope to include more
pages in our index soon. For more information about how we find and include
pages in our index please see http:www.google.comtechnologyindex.html.
If your site's internal link structure does not provide a path
to all your pages, our robot may not see all the pages on your site. Google
follows links from one page to the next, so pages that are not linked to by
others may be missed.
Google does offer a custom
site search service for a fee. If you subscribe to this service, Google
will index your pages and provide visitors to your site with a full search
option. However, participation in this program does not include all of your
pages in the larger Google index. Nor does participation alter your rank in
Google search results or increase traffic to your site. Basically, you can't
buy your way into our actual search results. You can however, purchase advertising
adjacent to Google results. More information about that program can be FOUND
HERE .
B. My web pages used to be listed
and now they aren't.
Each time we update our database of web page (about once a month),
our index shifts: we find new sites, we lose some sites, and site rankings
change. If your site was dropped from Google and you have not made major changes
to it in the last month, we will likely pick it up again in our next index.
It's possible your site was simply inaccessible when our robots tried to crawl
it.
You may want to check and see if the number of other sites linking
to your URL has decreased. This is the single biggest factor in determining
what sites are indexed by Google, as we find most pages when our robots crawl
the web and jump from page to page via hyperlinks. To find out who links to
your site, use Google's
link tool.
It's also possible your rank decreased because other sites were
found and assigned a higher rank. You can be assured that no one at Google
has hand adjusted the results to boost the ranking of a site. Google's order
of results is automatically determined by several factors, including our PageRank
algorithm. Please check out our "Why
Use Google" page for more information on how this works.
2. Multiple indices
We update our index about every four weeks. If you happen
to enter the same query repeatedly while we are in the process of posting
the index at our various data centers around the country, it might seem like
you are seeing inconsistent results from Google. What is actually happening
is that you are seeing a result from an 'old' version of our index one time
and a result from a 'new' version the next. Due to the size of our index,
we can not simultaneously post a new index at all of our data centers, which
may result in this behavior for a short period of time.
3. Other reasons
If your page does not appear at all, there here are some
other possible explanations.
- Your site may not have been reachable when we tried to
crawl it because of network or hosting problems. When this happens, we retry
multiple times, but if the site cannot be crawled, it will not be listed in
our current index. If it was a transient problem, your site will likely show
up in the next index, which will be completed in a few weeks.
- A technical glitch on our side may have caused us to
'miss' your site. In crawling more than 3 billion pages every few weeks, our
system experiences hiccups from time to time. Again, this is a transient problem,
and your site will likely show up in the next index. Please be patient with
us during this period, as we are not able to modify our index by hand to add
sites missed in this way.
- The contents of your page or the links pointing to your
page changed significantly and you no longer have a sufficiently high PageRank,
or your page had low PageRank to begin with and a small change caused you
to be dropped from the Google index.
- Your page was manually removed from our index, because
it did not conform with the quality standards necessary to assign accurate
PageRank. We will not comment on the individual reasons a page was removed
and we do not offer an exhaustive list of practices that can cause removal.
However, certain actions such as cloaking, writing text that can be seen by
search engines but not by users, or setting up pageslinks with the sole purpose
of fooling search engines may result in permanent removal from our index.
If you think your site may fall into this category, you might try 'cleaning
up' the page and sending a re-inclusion request to .
We do not make any guarantees about if or when we will re-include your site.
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