Crawling issue

[sedamiran]

Hello,

I am working on 3 weeks old new Magento website.  On GWT, under index status >advanced, I can only see 1 crawl on the 4th day of launching and I don't see any numbers for indexed or blocked status.

| Total indexed | Ever crawled | Blocked by robots | Removed |
| 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |

I can see the traffic on Google Analytic and i can see the website on SERPS when i search for some of the keywords, i can see the links appear on Google but i don't see any numbers on GWT.. As far as I check there is no 'no index' or robot block issue but Google doesn't crawl the website for some reason.

Any ideas why i cannot see any numbers for indexed or crawled status on GWT?

Thanks

Seda

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[Davenport-Tractor]

Seda,

Have you submitted a sitemap to GWMT?

That will greatly help the Google spiders crawl your site. Kind of like telling someone how to find your business vs providing them a road map. They will get there a whole lot quicker if you provide a map on how to find all the different locations.

There are quite a few different sitemap generator programs available. These programs will index your site and build the sitemap.xml file for you. Now you can save the file to your website root directory, then point GWMT to the sitemap.

[Everett]

The data in GWT is not always updated regularly. Also, for a new site that has never been indexed before and has no, or few, external links, it would not be surprising to experience infrequent crawls. The more links you earn and the more of a history of fresh content and updated pages you develop, the more often and deeply you'll be crawled.

As Davenport-Tractor mentioned, an XML sitemap submitted to GWT will also help if you haven't done that already.

If most of your pages are indexed when you do a (site:yourdomain.com) search on Google I wouldn't worry about it too much. If they aren't indexed, you may have a problem, such as inadvertently blocking the crawlers via robots meta tag or robots.txt file. I'd have to see the site to know that though.

[sedamiran]

Thanks Davenport and Everett, I've got XML sitemap submitted already, checked robot and no index etc but no stats yet. I'll wait for a few weeks more but it just doesn't make sense to not get any stays after a month. Meanwhile, If i figure out anything, I'll reply here.