Site not visible on SERP

[2MSens]

Hi all,

I helped a client on launching his website for a new startup : www.blubridge.com. The site is not visible at all on Google, even on the startup name. I wonder why is that...

There was a mistake while building the site, they used a dev site www2.blubridge.com which was indexed by Google. The 301 redirected has been done, however, there is still pages indexed by Google for the www2, and the www is still invisible on SERP...

Does someone know how to solve that ?
Thanks !

Best,

• Benoit

[LynnPatchett]

HI Benoit,

I see the site indexed (https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ablubridge.com) and only a few of those are the ww2 version so it looks like the 301s are ok and the site is being indexed properly. As to why you are not showing up for brand searches, it is likely  because you are a very new site and the brand name blubridge also is associated with a microphone of some sort that is bringing other relevant results into the serps. If you search for 'blubridge construction software' you appear. As you start getting some links to your site you should start moving up for branded searches.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Benoit,

It might be good to consider adding a robots.txt file to disallow Google to keep crawling the old www2 versions of the domain. The 301 redirects will also fix this in the long run but I tend to believe that using a robots.txt version will at least speed up this process.

[2MSens]

Hi, Martijn, there is already a robots.txt file on the www2.... Which didn't stop Google from indexing it!