Critique and Google bashing

NutritioN · 27 Mar 2007 at 11:50

I put a site up to promote an office/studio space - http://www.fluent-studios.co.uk which has been up since January 2007.

1. The aim of the site is to be accessible, simple but reasonably stylish and retain some of the branding of the parent company/site. Any comments or tricks I've missed to fullfil these goals?

2. It doesn't exist according to Google. I can accept it will take time to index, but other sites I've created recently have been found quickly. Is there nothing I can do, or is there something wrong with the way I've put it together? (Doubt it.)

Getting reciprocal links seems like a difficult task for a site like this. Who would link to it? 1001 random sites listing work spaces?

unwashed potato! · 27 Mar 2007 at 12:04

have you submitted it to google yet? thats the first thing i do and always ends up there in a couple of weeks, maybe less

NutritioN · 27 Mar 2007 at 12:06

Yup, it's in there in my webmasters tools. It just sits there with no data in the index/crawl/query pages. Submitted it again yesterday.

Mark M · 27 Mar 2007 at 12:18

Submitted it to dmoz?

Beansprout · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:38

Have you linked to the site from anywhere?

WotDa · 27 Mar 2007 at 13:46

Google has listed blog entries from my site from Sunday already, aswell as placing me above a similarly named .com site.

However, wordpress does invite the bot to the party everytime I make a post.

If you want you can have a link to your site to try and get your site listed in some form or other.

NutritioN · 27 Mar 2007 at 16:25

That would be kind WotDa

If you think your site covers relevant things then that would be much appreciated. Both the links in my sig please (they are related) no portfolio work up yet, but if you could link for a while I'll see if it kickstarts anything. Let me know what you get up to.

Forgot about Dmoz for this site :/ How do you find good reciprocal links though? No special answer for that I imagine. No-one is linking to it yet.

Beansprout · 27 Mar 2007 at 16:27

NutritioN said:
No-one is linking to it yet.

If nobody else can find it, how should Google? o.o

Van Hellseek · 27 Mar 2007 at 16:31

Beansprout said:
If nobody else can find it, how should Google? o.o

because he submitted it to them?

my sites are listed by google before any other sites do.

Beansprout · 27 Mar 2007 at 16:34

seek said:
because he submitted it to them?

As he's found out, submitting a site to Google is virtually pointless...I'm trying to show that if people can't find a site, neither can Google

Van Hellseek · 27 Mar 2007 at 16:38

Beansprout said:
As he's found out, submitting a site to Google is virtually pointless...

submitting to google has never failed for me. in the worst case it has taken ~1month to be listed, and in the best case just a matter of hours. and this is with nobody else linking to the sites.

far from pointless.

WotDa · 27 Mar 2007 at 16:39

NutritioN said:
That would be kind WotDa If you think your site covers relevant things then that would be much appreciated. Both the links in my sig please (they are related) no portfolio work up yet, but if you could link for a while I'll see if it kickstarts anything. Let me know what you get up to.

I'll drop a few links in when I move host and domain at the end of the week, little point of such things before I move tbh.

Beansprout · 27 Mar 2007 at 16:44

seek said:
submitting to google has never failed for me. in the worst case it has taken ~1month to be listed, and in the best case just a matter of hours. and this is with nobody else linking to the sites.

far from pointless.

Guess Google just likes you then

The rule is simple: To get your site listed in Google, get it visible by people - links ahoy

The site itself seems nice and clear in its HTML so Google shouldn't have any trouble working it out and indexing it correctly when it gets into gear

NutritioN · 28 Mar 2007 at 11:31

Thanks for the comments, I accept that submitting to Google is a minimal exercise in getting a site registered. Just haven't got the proper marketing in gear yet, where would inbounds links come from? Trying to get ads on the main useful directories at the moment.

NutritioN · 27 Apr 2007 at 11:39

Well the site got indexed at the start of April, took its time!

Now just need more inbound links

Wimnat · 27 Apr 2007 at 14:24

Although difficult when you're selling (because competitors selling the same thing don't like to link to you!), i always hit google and yahoo groups to see if I can find a group of sites that might be relative and then manually crawl the site for a webmaster link then plead for a link which i reciprocate.

I probably only get 10-20% replies but i think its worth it.