Guest Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Hello All, Something must be wrong. if i search for a product of mine with google it does not list. froogle finds it find. Ex. I have a product Digium tdm800p If i search google my results will not even show. Is something maybe turned off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velveeta Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Hello All, Something must be wrong. if i search for a product of mine with google it does not list. froogle finds it find. Ex. I have a product Digium tdm800p If i search google my results will not even show. Is something maybe turned off? It's nothing you've done wrong... Google and Froogle aren't one and the same... You can have products listed in Froogle, and still not have the page indexed by Google... Froogle helps shop owners by allowing them to send in a feed of all of their products, to make sure they're listed at least for people that are shopping (Frooglers)... Google has its own rules for indexing, and if your product pages don't have enough content that Google likes, or it's the same as hundreds of other stores out there (say if you dropship, and everyone else has the exact same product description in place)... Google likes unique content, and as much of it as it can get its hands on... It could also just be that Google has never really thoroughly crawled your site to even get to that page to index it... The more times Google visits your site, it crawls a little more each time, especially if the things it remembers from its last visit have been updated, so it can tell the content refreshes often, and it will index it and come back often to keep its index up to date... Make sure your pages are easy to get to, I'd suggest one of the sitemap contributions out there, like the All Products page or the regular sitemap, and probably a contribution for generating a Google Sitemap for submission to Google, which will be used in conjunction with its regular spidering, to crawl more of your site... Whether it indexes or not is entirely up to its own rules and your page layout... It can crawl a page a hundred times without ever indexing it... Also, I believe when you do regular searches, it takes the results' PageRank into account when it makes listings, and I know it used to be that anything below a certain PR didn't even get listed, although I'm sure it probably depends on how many results are generated... If it's got 100 million pages out there, it can be more picky about PR, if it's only got 4, it'll probably show all of them regardless of PR... And finally, to make sure you've got anything indexed at all, you can search like this from Google: site:yourdomain.com Which will show all pages it's indexed from that site, so for example, to see what pages it's indexed from Yahoo, you'd do: site:yahoo.com You can combine that with other search strings, like if you wanted to see if it had anything about Iraq indexed, from Yahoo's site, you could do this: iraq site:yahoo.com Hope that helps... Richard. Richard Lindsey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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