I am waiting for my site www.california-home-loans-ca.com to show up
on Google.  This site already has multiple links with other real
estate sites.  When I type in the URL
"www.california-home-loans-ca.com" on Google's home page and click on
"Google search", I get the message "Sorry, no information is available
for the URL www.california-home-loans-ca.com, etc etc".  However, when
I click on
"Find web pages that contain the term
www.california-home-loans-ca.com", several of our link partner sites
show up including the site www.california-home-loans-ca itself.  How
can the site be showing up in the second search and not in the first
when it has obviously been crawled and cached?  Thanks.

Hi, 

robertskelton-ga's comment below is something to keep in mind. He's
right and you should probably look into doing something about that.
Right now however it looks like you have been indexed, but you don't
have a PageRank yet, so you aren't showing up on any searchers which
don't basically ask for your site directly.

It looks like you got this website domain back in February according
to the Whois look up, but I don't know how long it's been since you
got a webpage on the server or when you posted your page to Google. As
robertskelton-ga suggests, it is normally 2 months before your page
will start showing up, sometimes longer.

There are other issues with your website which may effect you getting
a high PageRank and listed well. The menu system structure has most of
the pages coming off the main index.html page. These other pages do
not link to anything except back to the main index.html. Having them
link to each other as well will make your site easier to index and to
navigate for your users too.

If you are using a program such as Web Position Gold to monitor your
website on the Search Engines, then you will want to stop and write
the google admin folks at help@google.com and let you know you have
stopped. The polling feature Web Position Gold uses to monitor
websites is known to Google and is against their Terms of Service.
Using it will take your website off the index all together.

A good page to read on this subject is here : Search Engine Guide:
Orbidex: Safe and Smart Site Submissions
http://www.searchengineguide.com/orbidex/2001/0824_orb1.html 


Adding a robots.txt file to your website will help in getting your
site indexed and processed through Googe and onto the listings.

You can find out about Robot files here:
http://www.upenn.edu/computing/web/webdev/meta/metarobot.html And you
can find one that will work for your site here:
http://www.lucidmatrix.com/uploads/robots.txt


If you haven't done so already, submit your site to the DMOZ
project. You can submit your site to Netscape's Open Directory Project
(DMOZ) by visiting
http://www.dmoz.org 
 
Next submit your site to Yahoo  
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/ 
 
You can get the Google bar at : http://toolbar.google.com/ 
It shows PageRank Values
 
You can read about PageRank at these links,  
 
Google Information for Webmasters 
://www.google.com/webmasters/4.html 
 
Add your URL to Google 
://www.google.com/addurl.html 
 
Google Information for Webmasters 
://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html 
 
Google Technology 
://www.google.com/technology/ 
 
Google's PageRank and how to make the most of it 
http://webworkshop.net/pagerank.html 

Google Under the Scope
http://www.searchengineworld.com/spiders/google_faq.htm

PageRank: Bringing Order to the Web
http://hci.stanford.edu/~page/papers/pagerank/

 
Thanks,  
 
webadept-ga

There is only one thing I can think of, and it is only a
possibility...

http://www.california-home-loans-ca.com/links.html

The above page has many reciprocal links. Google dislikes any
artificial means of influencing ranking based on links in and out.
Many of the sites you link to have two characteristics which might
indicate to the Google software that the links have no serious merit:

1) They use a phrase like "reciprocal links" or "link exchange".
2) Other sites use the same copy and words within the link as your
site.

The combo of these factors may cause Google to decide that the links
to your site lack merit, and that your site is not worth indexing.

I also have to ask the obvious - have you submitted your site to
Google and how long ago? If you have and it was less than 2 months
ago, there is a good chance it will be listed before the end of the
month, when the index will probably next be updated.