My website hasn't been cached for over a month. Can anyone tell me why?

[SEOAndy]

I have been working on an eCommerce site www.fuchia.co.uk.

I have asked an earlier question about how to get it working and ranking and I took on board what people said (such as optimising product pages etc...) and I think i'm getting there.

The problem I have now is that Google hasn't indexed my site in over a month and the homepage cache is 404'ing when I check it on Google. At the moment there is a problem with the site being live for both WWW and non-WWW versions, i have told google in Webmaster what preferred domain to use and will also be getting developers to do 301 to the preferred domain. Would this be the problem stopping Google properly indexing me? also I'm only having around 30 pages of 137 indexed from the last crawl.

Can anyone tell me or suggest why my site hasn't been indexed in such a long time?

Thanks

[SanketPatel]

Hi,

Your site is open with or without WWW so it is major problem you have to do proper 301 redirect in .htaccess file. Need to implement rel=canonical into your site i did not find that code.  I see 243 pages are indexed of your site by google.  can i  know about the domain edge of your site?? when you have live this site?

[MattAntonino]

I've found that if you manually ping Google, they often update their cache at the same time.

Google doesn't have a cache for either cache: www.fuchia.co.uk. or cache: fuchia.co.uk. so I don't think it's a canonical issue.

I would suggest a few things:

1. Use PingDevice http://www.pingdevice.com/

2. Put your main domain in a Google Plus post every now and then.

3. Resubmit a sitemap.  Usually this gets you crawled fairly quickly and possibly updates your cache.

[SEOAndy]

Hi Sanket,

The site has been live for around 3 months I would say.

[SEOAndy]

Hi Matt,

I used ping device and it's pinging fine.

I will work on the Google+ suggestion.

I have resubumitted a Sitemap for both fuchia.co.uk and www.fuchia.co.uk as I verified ownership of both to allow me set preferred domain. I submitted one this morning, so maybe that will help. But we will see.

It seems like the main priority at the moment is getting everything redirected and canonicalised and see if that helps anything.

[MattAntonino]

Cache won't be built or updated overnight so sometimes the first few caches are a waiting game.  How long has this site been live?  If it's fairly new, what you're experiencing is common.  If it's an older site and you recently started changing a lot of the technical stuff - redirecting, canonicals, etc. it may just take a little while to settle in.

The other major recommendation I would give you is to change your sitemap "change frequency" to be slightly more accurate.  Does this page http://www.fuchia.co.uk/products/clothing/dresses/dog-tooth-print-dress.aspx  really change "daily"?   By having daily on every page you aren't helping Google prioritize their crawl, which means you may get a cache for your dog tooth print dress before you get a new cache for your main page.

So I would fix that, resubmit sitemap and then it's a waiting game.  Could be a week, could be two, I've seen it go almost a month but not if you use G+.

[SEOAndy]

Fair point about the Sitemap. Thanks a lot, I'll take these on board and see what happens from there.

Thanks,