Search engines only indexing my homepage?

Six6siX · 13 Aug 2006 at 00:22

The site (link in sig) has been up for about 6 months now I think but my google search results are very low and nothing besides my homepage appears to be indexed!

I get frequent visits from google bot according to stats, but nothing seems to be resulting.

I have submitted a sitemap and tried to make things as clean as possible and enabled all search engine friendly features on forums and blogs etc.

Anyone any ideas? Is there something wrong code-wise, am I missing something from my htaccess that would cause this? I'm a bit of a novice at this, so any help is welcome!

Mik3 · 13 Aug 2006 at 01:26

Google has indexed 3 pages from your site. You need to get more inbound links to your site, then Google will see your site as more 'important' and will index more pages and place your site higher in the search results.

Six6siX · 13 Aug 2006 at 01:31

Right, I see. Thanks for the info. Shall give it a go

fluiduk · 14 Aug 2006 at 15:55

Whats your internal linking structure like. Are all of your pages easy to get to from the front page etc.

Aaron

blade007 · 14 Aug 2006 at 23:10

hi. the awful truth is that you will not get anyone finding you ... I took these from your meta ... keywords "infinity, squared, infinity squared, Leonard Caesar, arcade, forum, gallery, guestbook, discussion forum, lol, n00b, owned, pwned, forum arcade, flash games, infsq, uk"

no one will type "infinity squared" into google, except maybe an amateur mathematician.

harsh, but true.

blade007 · 14 Aug 2006 at 23:14

another thing to consider is that your site has virtually no text content.

/* not good

google, or any other spider, needs to assess the site and the way it does it is by reading text (and links) ... and if you ain't got any .... :/

harsh, but also true

Six6siX · 14 Aug 2006 at 23:16

fluiduk said:
Whats your internal linking structure like. Are all of your pages easy to get to from the front page etc.

Aaron

Yes all pages linked from the homepage.

hi. the awful truth is that you will not get anyone finding you ... I took these from your meta ... keywords "infinity, squared, infinity squared, Leonard Caesar, arcade, forum, gallery, guestbook, discussion forum, lol, n00b, owned, pwned, forum arcade, flash games, infsq, uk"

no one will type "infinity squared" into google, except maybe an amateur mathematician.

harsh, but true.

I didnt think google searched meta tags as much as other engines? :confused:

Six6siX · 14 Aug 2006 at 23:17

blade007 said:
another thing to consider is that your site has virtually no text content.

/* not good

google, or any other spider, needs to assess the site and the way it does it is by reading text (and links) ... and if you ain't got any .... :/

harsh, but also true

Confused...no text content? Explain please?

blade007 · 14 Aug 2006 at 23:44

Six6siX said:
Yes all pages linked from the homepage.

I didnt think google searched meta tags as much as other engines?

it doesn't bother with meta tags (except meta tag description)... what I was trying to say is that ... someone has to type something into google to find a site ... what will they type in to find yours? no one will type infinity squared and expect to find a forum and a blog.

it's better to aim for something ... I recently SEO optimised a site, and the guy does car window tinting, so his keywords were "window tinting", "tinted windows" "privacy glass" and other stuff. you have to think a bit on what keywords you want to catch.

blade007 · 14 Aug 2006 at 23:48

Six6siX said:
Confused...no text content? Explain please?

it looks like a personal, blog type (with not much blog - although your site still looks very young), homepage so I suppose you would have to think about how to get people who are interested in blogs onto your homepage.

Six6siX · 14 Aug 2006 at 23:52

blade007 said:
it doesn't bother with meta tags (except meta tag description)... what I was trying to say is that ... someone has to type something into google to find a site ... what will they type in to find yours? no one will type infinity squared and expect to find a forum and a blog.

it's better to aim for something ... I recently SEO optimised a site, and the guy does car window tinting, so his keywords were "window tinting", "tinted windows" "privacy glass" and other stuff. you have to think a bit on what keywords you want to catch.

I see, seems obvious when thinking about it, but yeah. Will look a bit more into the description tag. Thanks.

edit: do they have to be keywords or can they be phrases?