I have set up several websites in the last month but they’re not being indexed even though search engine bots are accessing my sites almost every day. The sites have plenty of content (average 80 pages a site) and new content is added daily, my meta tags, robot.txt, etc. are all correct.
How long should it take for a site to be indexed once it’s being visited by the bots?
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about 3-4 months…i know it takes awhile
Not very long at all (hours/days). Make sure you have a few strong inbound links to speed the process up seo-blog.com/inbound-links.php
Double check your robots.txt by signing up for Webmaster Tools https://google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/about.html where there is a robots.txt file validator.
It could take quite a while. You’ll want to do some research on google about how to submit a site map. Just make an account with Google and you’ll have access to all that information. You can usually become found on Google within 7 days of submitting your site.
I recommend putting in adsense as google will scan your pages faster once adsense is on there especially if you haven’t signed up for an account yet.
In the meantime to pick up some traffic I would use PPC (pay per click) marketing using adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing to get some traffic and learn about what works to help promote your site before you spend long hours on a site that has to much competition or even worse – not enough which would usually mean that the market isn’t big enough to make money in.
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With my two most recent sites, it took just a couple days. The best way to get it indexed is to get some other websites to link to yours. If you have other websites that are well-indexed, put some links on them to your new websites to help. You can also submit to some free directories to speed the process along. Or if you have any great original content, you could Digg it and that will help get traffic and your site indexed quickly.
–James
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