Hi Jasmin,
I had a look at your site, including the source code for your index
page. You don't seem to have anything in your code which would
"upset" the Googlebot - no frames, no JavaScript, and your META tags
all seem to be in order (though you may consider changing your <meta
NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="all"> to <meta NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index,
follow"> because it provides the spiders with specific instructions).
Something to note about Google:
"Google does not accept payment for inclusion of sites in our index,
nor for improving the rank of sites in our results."
and
"We add thousands of new sites to our index each time we crawl the
Web, but if you like, you may submit your URL as well. Submission is
not necessary and does not guarantee inclusion in our index. Given the
large number of sites submitting URLs, it's likely your pages will be
found in an automatic crawl before they make it into our index through
the URL submission form. We DO NOT add all submitted URLs to our
index, and cannot predict when or if they will appear."
How Do I Get My Site Listed on Google?
://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html
The service you paid for may very well have submitted your site for
inclusion, but submission is not a guarantee that you will be
included. It doesn't look like you've done anything wrong with your
site to be specifically *excluded*, though. Instead, you seem to be
suffering a simple case of bad timing on the part of your submitter.
It's entirely possible, if your site is new, that the Googlebot just
hasn't reached you yet. It takes several weeks for the Googlebot to
crawl the web - if you submitted just after the last crawl, it might
be several weeks before a new crawl begins, and several more after
that until the crawl is finished. It's also possible that the
Googlebot is having a hard time finding you if you don't have a lot of
other sites linking to your page, or if you had temporary network or
hosting problems:
"When a URL is submitted to Google, we look for it in our next crawl.
If you've already submitted your URL, your site could easily appear in
our new index, which will go up when the current crawl is completed.
However, if no other site links to yours, it may be difficult for our
crawler to find you. Conversely, if many sites link to your page,
there is a good chance we will find you without your submitting your
URL.
Occasionally, websites are not reachable when we try to crawl them
because of network or hosting problems. When this happens, we retry
multiple times, but if the site cannot be crawled, it will not be
listed in our current index. If it was a transient problem, the site
will likely show up in the next index, which will be completed in a
few weeks."
I've submitted my site to Google and it's still not listed. Why?
://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html
It may also be a temporary case of Googlebot hiccups that's keeping
you out:
"A technical glitch on our side may have caused us to 'miss' your
site. In crawling more than 2 billion pages every few weeks, our
system experiences hiccups from time to time. Again, this is a
transient problem, and your site will likely show up in the next
index. Please be patient with us during this period, as we are not
able to modify our index by hand to add sites missed in this way."
My Web Pages Are Not Currently Listed
://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html
There are things you can do to get the Googlebot to notice you - all
free, and all requiring only a few minutes time investment:
Submit your URL to Google yourself:
For Site Owners: Submit your site
://www.google.com/addurl.html
Submit your URL to DMOZ and Yahoo:
"Google partners on the Web include Yahoo! and Netscape. As part of
our agreements with these sites we include the sites in their
directories (Yahoo! and DMOZ) in the Google index. If you are having
difficulty getting listed in the Google index, you may want to
consider submitting your site to either or both of these directories.
You can submit to Yahoo! by visiting
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/. You can submit your site to
Netscape's Open Directory Project (DMOZ) by visiting www.dmoz.org.
Once your site is included in either of these directories you can
expect to see it appear in the Google index in four to eight weeks."
Getting Listed
://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html
Google also offers several terrific resources for webmasters, all for
free:
Google Information for Webmasters
://www.google.com/webmasters/
Google Webmasters' FAQ
://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html
User Support Forum
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=google.public.support.general
I hope this helps, Jasmin! If any part of my answer is unclear, or
you just need a little more information, please don't hesitate to ask
for a clarification. I'll be happy to assist you further.
--Missy
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