can anybody help me...

Hi everybody, I have been thumbing through threads trying to find an answer to my problem and think that I am officially going crazy! I have been waiting since November for my site to be indexed with google. (4 months) I am not sure if something is wrong with my code or if I just have to be patient. Any advice from you smart computer people would be extremely helpful... I have been able to figure out everything up until now - website design, mets tags.... but this SEO stuff is tough!

The only thing that I have come up with that might be a problem is that I don't have a robot.txt file. Is that important? Also, I have 206 partial content, and 302 Moved temporarily (redirect) error codes that come up. I have validated my site on a couple of different validators and one came up with alot of unnecessary white space? huh? Does that mean I have to delete all the white space in my html?

Thanks in advance for any help offered,
Lee
www.sunflowercreations.com

Doesn't look to bad.. You may want to fix these issues http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...ations.com% 2F

If your site is not getting indexed by google, then you really need to look closely at your back links and/or coding.

First you coding has 7 errors that need to be fixed on your home page. For coding validation you can get the free version of html validator - http://www.htmlvalidator.com/ it's super fast and you can load you whole site and depending upon the number of errors, have it done in a matter of an hour or two.

Then, run your site throug w3c as suggested by the above poster.

Then, build your back links. See the directory section of this forum for some quick, free locations to build back links to your site.

The more backlinks your site has, the faster Google will index it. The quality of the coding will improve the odds of higher page index rates.

Cheers

Thanks for that, I think I fixed the problems. Lets see if it helps... Appreciate the help

Hi and thanks for taking the time to help me. I have one more question if you don't mind, which I shoud really probably already know... When you use the term back link does that refer to other web sites that have my url listed as a link or does it refer to the links I have on my site to other sites?

That would actually refer to sites linking to yours. Find 5, 6 or 7 good relevant kw phrases and rotate them in your links from other sites. This will help you with google. I don't know the exact "minimum" diversity number myself, but this should help. Focus on directories first as these are the easiest places and ways to get back links pointing to your site. There are literally hundreds of posts within this forum pointing out some great directory resources for links.


I don't recommend linking to a directory unless you feel it will benefit your visitors. I noticed I forgot to answer your question on the robot text file. You really shouldn't need one if you're not attempting to keep robots from indexing directories or specific pages.

here is an example of one: (personally, I recommend blocking the image directory)

User-agent: *

Disallow: /application/
Disallow: /tools/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /scripts/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /scgi-bin/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /suspended.page/
Disallow: /apply.shtml
Disallow: /apply1.shtml
Disallow: /google_sandbox.shtml

Cheers

Thank you so much, you have been a great help! I will work on that.
Lee