Getting a citation page indexed

[ihms]

Howdy mozzers,

I have a citation on a .govt domain with 2 links pointing to my site. The page is not indexed by Google, bing or yahoo.

URL; http://www.familyservices.govt.nz/directory/viewprovider.htm?id=17077

I have tried getting the paged indexed by building bookmark links to it. I have tweeted the url and gotten a few re-tweets for it. But no luck.

The page has got no nofollow meta tag. Other listings have been indexed by google.

Could someone please advise on means to help me get the page indexed?

A strategy that I have not yet tried is submitting a sitemap that includes the external url as I am not sure if it is possible to include url's not part of my domain.

Any advice, help would be greatly appreciated.

viva le SEOmoz

Thanks

[JamesNorquay]

Hi,

this specific page is blocked in robots.txt

http://www.familyservices.govt.nz/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /webadmin/
Disallow: /directory/

So I would not waste any time trying to get it ranked.
Kind Regards,

James.

[Thos003]

If you are looking for better google places rankings then you can build citations on social media profiles.

[DanHill]

What you could try do if the link means that much to you (judging by the steps you've already taken I'd say it does) - is to try contact the webmaster and pitch the concept of the importance of their site being indexed so people looking for their family services will be able to find them easier. Offer Jame's solution which any webmaster would be able to quickly correct.

This would be best done over the phone though.

Good luck

[JamesNorquay]

I don't know getting a web developer to go into a server and change a robots.txt for a totally random business is something which I would not advise. they have obviously blocked the directory for a reason, possibly they do not want it indexed due to the content it holds?

Most web devs need good reasons to do things, I know I have dealt with 100s the bigger company and especially govt devs are hard to move in hurry, they usually have a bunch of other jobs to do, or they will put it on the requests list.

Yet I agree with your point you could contact this website via email or phone and touch base to see if they want to include your link as it is highly relevant to them.
Yet in my experience most government websites are very funny about small business asking for links even if you are a huge business they ask a million and one questions before you can acquire a sucessful link.

But like the old saying if you don't ask you don't get, so email/call away.

[KeriMorgret]

Quick test, please ignore.

[blakedenman]

Agreed.  There are also a ton of other local directories out there that will help build your citation (if your going for local) authority & credibility.