Why my website pages are not getting indexed by search engines? This is a very common issue people faces. Search engines will not index your website pages unless you make sure the following things.
There can be several reasons:
For Search engines the HTML Code doesn’t matter much, it’s just meaningless to them. They use a simple software programs to index your website pages. A simple web page that looks great to the human eye may seem meaningless to search engines.
Search engines are unable to read the content that is presented in images (GIF, JPEG, PNG, etc.), Flash elements, JavaScript and other script languages or other multimedia file formats.
If you use JavaScript links for your website navigation then search engines might not be able to find your website page.
Check your web pages with a search engine spider simulator. Spider simulators will show you how search engines see your web site.
HTML Errors is also a reason that can prevent search engine spiders from indexing your website pages. While most search engine spiders can deal with minor code errors, some of them will send faulty information to search engine spiders.
For example, your web page could contain a tag at the top of the page that tells search engines “the web page ends here” although your main content has not been reached or there may be some tags which are not closed properly.
To make sure your website doesn’t have any errors, check your website’s HTML code with the W3C’s HTML Validation Service.
To rank high for a special keyword this keyword must appear in the right places on your web page. For example, it usually helps to use the keyword in the web page title.
There are many other elements that are important if you want to have high rankings.
Check the HTML code of your web page with software like IBP. This software will compare your web page with the top ranked pages and it will tell you in detail how to change your web page so that it can get top 10 rankings.
Sometimes the web servers’ sends wrong status codes upon a web page request from your site by search engine spiders. Upon a request your web server sends a response code to search engine spiders. The code should be “200 OK”.
Unfortunately, some servers send a “302 moved” or even a “404 not found” response code to the search engine spiders although the web page can be displayed in a normal web browser.
In such case, search engines will assume that the web page does not exist and will not index your web page.
Use the search engine spider simulator to find out which response code your web server returns to search engines. If the response code is not “200 OK”, you can check your status code with the free HTTP Server Response Code Checker.
If you want to get top rankings on Google and other search engines then you must make sure that search engines don’t misunderstand your pages.
Posted under Search Engine Optimization
This post was written by admin on June 27, 2009
