Why Doesn't Google Crawl Site?

Our site is listed in Google now, but only the home page is there. In other
words, if I enter:

findhim site:www.findhim.org

.... I only get the home page. What's the story?

Thanks!

Dan
http://www.findhim.org

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:14:07 -0400, "Dan Barker" <noway (AT) noway (DOT) com>
wrote:

www.findhim.org

I think google won't crawl sub-pages unless you have a few links
already pointing to you. At least I think that's what I've heard. I
may be wrong.

One thing you might wanna do is after you post messages like this one,
go around and look for where the messages are archived. Google news
is one place that archives usenet messages. Then find your message,
and submit that url to google. That will help to get pages that are
linking to you crawled, which is good for you. HHmmm.. wait, it would
only be beneficial if the news archiver actually uses hyper links and
doesn't convert everything to plain text. Well either way it's worth
checking out. If the hyper links pointing to you are presevered then
it won't hurt to submit those pages to google. And google does crawl
google.

--ed

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 04:06:09 GMT, ed <coo_t2-NO-LIKE-SPAM (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>
wrote:

If the hyper links pointing to you are presevered then
it won't hurt to submit those pages to google.

Check this out:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ww...O-8859-1&hl=en

You already have several messages archived and the hyper link to your
site is preserved.

As silly as it may sound, I'd submit those archived pages to google.

--ed

I think google won't crawl sub-pages unless you have a few links
already pointing to you. At least I think that's what I've heard. I
may be wrong.

Thanks, Ed, for your input!

If anyone else can give us some authoritative information on this issue, it
would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Dan

yeah i'd like to hear if Ed's idea holds water

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mark

Brothermark <yonnermark (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

yeah i'd like to hear if Ed's idea holds water

More precisely, it seems that sites with high enough Page Rank get
their subpages crawled more often than others with lower rank. And
having more links to your site (and from sites with high enough PR)
increases your page rank.

--
I.

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:06:50 -0400, "Dan Barker" <noway (AT) noway (DOT) com>
wrote:

Yes... but the question still remains... What does it take to get crawled
just once? For a fairly static informational site like ours, once is all we
really need!

Dan
http://www.findhim.org

You gotta get your Page Rank up. I don't know if we can trust google
toolbar yet again, but it's showing a PR of 0 for your home page.

The higher your PR the better googlebot(and google in general) will
treat you. And getting PR for your home page means getting links to
your home page.
Preferably from pages with reasonably high PR themselves(4+, but lower
won't hurt).

Submit to free search engines and directories. Trade links with other
web sites. Post on usenet and web forums.

Google will pick up some of those links pointing to you if their on
pages that get crawled often. But you should help things out by
submitting those pages(the ones that link to you) to google to make
sure google knows about those pages.
It isn't harmful to submit other peoples' pages to google. The worst
that can happen is googlebot will visit them sometime soon. And
that's what you want. Cuz the sooner googlebot visits them, the
sooner (s)he'll visit you.
And some of the PR from those pages will transfer to your page, and
that will help get you crawled deeper and more frequently. And it
will also help you with your position on search results. Although PR
isn't the only factor in determining your position on search results.
It still helps alot though.

You should read eatme's post in the "would this help my google
results?" thread.

--ed

Thanks much for your input, Ed! I really appreciate it.

Dan
http://www.findhim.org