Site not coming up even when I search with the .com

[callmeed]

We have a customer whose site: http://camilojosevergara.com doesn't show up even when you search for his exact domain. http://bit.ly/18RjPPX

Wondering why that is. Is it because wikipedia and the other links rank higher? I've submitted his sitemap to google so I'm trying to figure out why its not showing up.

Any tips/recommendations to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

[tomhall90]

Hi Erik,

Is the website ALL in flash?

If so, Google cannot read SWF files and can only read text (And alt tags, meta data etc.) I checked the page source and found this:

There are no keywords set and there is no meta description.

I can only assume the missing meta data as well as the website being completely made in flash is what is stopping Google from crawling your website and adding it to the SERP.

I believe there is a way in which you make a "copy" of your website in a text version for search engines to read (Hopefully another member can point you in the right direction for that).

All I can recommend is not to make websites in flash. In my opinion (and it's only my opinion) is that flash is dead. And the beautiful things you used to be able to do in flash, you can no do even better in Ajax and other javascript as well as having fully readable websites by search engines!

Hope this answer is of some help to you!

Tom

[callmeed]

not in flash. view source on it. Its HTML 5

thanks

[jesse-landry]

Okay couple things here:

1.) This site does not have any redirects in place. There are essentially duplicates of ever page existing for the www and non-www versions respectively. This is a problem that should be addressed immediately.

2.) What are the target keywords? Because looking at the shady back-link profile it would seem that this is a site that sells Propranolol without a prescription. There are TONS of backlinks coming into this site with that in the anchor text. Did your client ever use this domain for something else or buy it from someone else?

3.) Check Google's Webmaster Tools. I'm willing to bet that there is a unnatural link penalty notice sitting in there. Penguin will hit a site like this, but usually won't remove it entirely. This site looks like it has a manually imposed penalty looming. It's a bit of a disaster and if it were my site and I were the photographer I'd consider finding a new domain name and starting over.

4.) Out of curiosity, when you say "we have a customer.." what exactly do you mean and what kind of business do you work for? What is your specialty? That I'm just wondering to satisfy my own curiosity and you're welcome to disregard this question.

Hope this helps.

[jesse-landry]

One last thing.. Consider this for your search query's URL: http://www.google.com/search?&q=camilojosevergara.com&pws=0

The &pws=0 at the end is very important for any SEO who wants to see real SERPs

[JesusD]

I am outsider to this question, sorry. But it got interesting. I want to know one would do this

"1.) This site does not have any redirects in place. There are essentially duplicates of ever page existing for the www and non-www versions respectively. This is a problem that should be addressed immediately"

Is there a best practice to this. I had a similar problem with www. and non www. Supposedly the technical person solved this issue.

[MattAntonino]

Pretty sure I can get this indexed for you Erik (and still not sure why you don't PM me on Facebook with these Qs first. lol)

Just took a screenshot now with site:www.camilojosevergara.com not showing indexed. Will check again in a bit.

My best guess at this is the duplicate content is making Google choose not to bother indexing it.

"What duplicate content?"

http://behindthescenes.nyhistory.org/tracking-time/

Since the whole website is on one line (according to view source in Chrome) Google likely believes that the entirety of the nyhistory.org site has been scraped.  Either a) they just didn't index it or b) it's possibly banned if it was previously in the index.

[Everett]

Hello Erik,

I did notice two beginning and ending body tags in the source code. Search for this in View Source:

Hello

That would mean the only content on the page is "Hello" if Google was to be paying attention to that body tag instead of the other one.

I seriously doubt www Vs non-www would keep your site from being indexed. This is one of those really minor issues that Google does a really great job of handling 99% of the time.

I'm inclined to agree with Jesse that the site has been removed from the index due to the spammy links: http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/links?site=camilojosevergara.com

That is a bigger topic than we can cover here but you can start by looking into how to clean up your link profile, disavow links and file a re-inclusion request.

[jesse-landry]

good catch on the body tag. not sure that would cause google to ignore all else but i'd be curious to know this..

As for the lack of redirects, I didn't mean to imply that this would be causing the site to not be indexed. I meant that as a separate issue I noticed when briefly researching the site.

Just wanted to clear that up. Nonetheless, it should be dealt with. While Google can differentiate which site to index, it most definitely splits up your link juice and causes diminished PR/DA.

[callmeed]

Hi Jesse -

thanks for the tips. How did you check the backlinks to the site? Also regarding 3 how do you check for the unnatural link penalty?

thanks

[callmeed]

Hi Everett -

thanks for the info. Can you link me to or elaborate on these topics "link profile, disavow links and file a re-inclusion request."

when I view source I'm not seeing any drug spam links in the body tag: http://chrle.us/PSV0

what would you recommend to get it indexed ASAP?

[jesse-landry]

the forum you are posting on was created on the backbone of the software used to examine backlinks.

as per the rest of your questions.. you're on the right path. let's see how we can keep you moving along said path:

http://bit.ly/16NVY3R