went live with wSite monday (6 days ago) and submitted to SE's...

[spewn]

hey...i launched a website last monday, approx 6 days ago. I then submitted it to a lot of different search engines like DMOZ, google, alltheweb, alta vista, dogpile, ineedhits and a couple other smaller ones.

the problem is now i see no activity to the site. there were maybe a couple hits that weren't me, but besides that, no action.

i put the website together according to latest optimization "standards". i checked my page rank from some site and it came back as 0. i typed in my site name to google and it came up, title of the site and a little description. but i can't seem to find my site pages listed anywhere on google.

it seems to me that since i was able to find the index page of my site on google, that they did crawl it and found nothing of value and my page doesn't "make par" for google.

hmmm...or just because i see one instance of my domain, does that guarantee that they have crawled it?

the domain is

http://www.creditcardchoices.com.

any ideas/help/comments?

- g

 

[audiopro]

I understand that Google, for example can take up to a month to update their database so 6 days is probably a little bit too soon to panic. They may have crawled it but I don't think they update their listings instantly.
There seems to be a lot of talk about DOCTYPES round here, I am not sure just how important they are as a few of my sites have achieved high rankings without them but I am sure someone with far more knowlwdge than me will mention it.
You are in a competitive market and a search for 2 of your metas "advanta vaya" reveals 31900 results.
Good luck with what is a nice looking site.

Keith

http://www.studiosoft.co.uk

 

[ChrisHirst]

Reading this HR Thread will shed some light.

Your site is in probably one of the most over-subscribed market places.
Don't expect to see much of your site in the Google SERPs for 12 months.
And the only way your site will feature in this arena is with thousands of backlinks.

And I guess as it's yet another turnkey credit card site you have even more work facing you.


Chris.

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Woo Hoo! the cobblers kids get new shoes.
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So long, and thanks for all the fish.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Spewn,

Something similar happened to me when I launched my most recent site.

My log showed an immediate visit from the Google bot, who took a quick sniff around and departed -- he didn't go beyond my home page. Nothing happened for several weeks, then suddenly he dropped by again. This time, he went to every one of my pages. Since then, he has been a regular visitor.

I suggest you do two things: (i) Be patient. (ii) Focus on other search engines for the time being; Google isn't the only engine in town.

Mike


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