Page Not Indexed

[ross88guy]

Hi Guys

I wrote and published an article last night on my site but it is yet to be indexed. This is strange as articles are usually indexed pretty quickly. Could you have a quick look and see what the problem is?

http://www.rankmytri.com/tomtom-running-and-triathlon-watch/

Also all my Blog posts (in the blog section of the site) are not indexed as well (and I dont think they have been for a while) yet I dont have any messages from Google in my webmaster tools. Thoughts?

Thanks in advance

Ross

[Antony_Towle]

Have you tried a Fetch as Google within the >crawl menu in webmaster tools? If Google can fetch it ok then i wouldn't of thought that anything would be wrong with your page, and then it could be just Google taking its time to crawl your website, i find it takes even longer before our new pages/articles start showing and ranking for our competitive keywords

Hope this helps, James

[zeepartner]

This is strange indeed. I suggest to follow James' advice above and check via Webmaster Tools if there are accessibility issues for Googlebot.

Another reason for this problem could be that this page is not linked to anywhere. Do you have a link pointing to this article on a page of your site that is being crawled by googlebot? Is it present in a sitemap?

[ross88guy]

Thanks. I followed your advice and created sitemap as well as linking from another page internally. The page was then indexed within a few minutes. I think that although the page was linked to from my front page, the link was from a featured article slider, which the google bot may not have been able to crawl!

Thanks guys

[zeepartner]

Cool! Glad that this could be solved so easily:)