New pages on my web site

[singingtelegramsuk]

I have created web sites that appear somewhere on Google in hardly any time at all,

but I appear to have forgotten something or things are different for pages added recently to an existing website.

I have added a page on a particular subject, optimized it using on page grader, so that I get an A, and a check mark for everything except H1 tags and rel=canonical which my web hosting provider does not support. I do have a check mark for accessible to search engines

The page has the format http://www.domain.com/specific-keyword

It is in the menu, so should have internal links to it, as I understand it.

I have created a new site map, and submitted it in webmaster tools.

Interestingly it says that of the 96 pages only 76 were indexed

is this a clue? and why would they not index a page

I have then shared the page on google plus, facebook, tumblr, pinterest   and twitter and some others

In OSE it comes up as domain authority 28 page authority 1, the social media shares do show up in metrics on the right but no links internal or external are shown, they do on other pages I created in the same way.

Is it just a case of waiting or is their something I do to help

thank you

[RyanPurkey]

GWT very infrequently shows a 100% of pages submitted via sitemap matching pages indexed, but there could be a few very reasonable reasons for this. For example, you could be disallowing a portion of pages in your robots.txt file that are listed in your sitemap.

As for OSE explorer, you're most likely looking at link data from prior to the last update. In that case, any linking and work done won't be recorded by OSE until the next update is made live. Here's the latest on their scheduling: http://moz.com/products/api. Short answer: keep doing what you're doing, and wait a bit on the reporting numbers to update. Cheers!

[singingtelegramsuk]

thanks for the quick response I looked in robots.txt and found this:

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: http://www.realsingingtelegrams.com/sitemap.xml

is that causing the problem?

[RyanPurkey]

That certainly could be causing problems. It'd be best to delete that line.

[singingtelegramsuk]

hmm delete the line?, would it work if I deleted the file upload a blank text file named robots.txt

[singingtelegramsuk]

actually there is no file of that name in my file manager

[RyanPurkey]

You'll want to contact your hosting company or look at their FAQ on how to edit robots.txt. Cheers!

[singingtelegramsuk]

hmm I found a robots.txt editor in Google webmaster tools

downloaded the new file and uploaded it to my file manager

then discovered that my whole site had crashed page not found

dunno if I caused it, or the host was already having probems

gotta wait and see now, Their live chat help is also not working and I have sent an email so it does look like it's their problem

How can the robots.txt file have changed if I did not do it

[singingtelegramsuk]

Ok my site is back up and the new robots,txt file has been uploaded and submitted to google,

I have tested that the site map is allowing robots.

and it is, but no change yet to the OSE and search results.

I will wait to see if these are any changes

Thanks again

[singingtelegramsuk]

That has definitely fixed the problem the page is on the second page of google

and I can carry on building it up

Thanks very much

[EricaMcGillivray]

As Ryan mentioned, OSE is updated on a schedule. Our next update is scheduled for March 11th. We try to update it -- barring any technical difficulties -- at least once a month.