All search engines say my website is a parked domain

  • bealive

    (@bealive-1)


    8 years ago

    I set up my website with WordPress over nearly two weeks ago. When anyone goes to do a goggle search is says that my website is a parked domain, But if they click on my site..well it is all there. Bing says that my site is a “crazy domain’ and yahoo says there is no such site. I am a learner novice, so could someone tell me what I need to do. Oh.. I contacted my host and they said I need to contact google!!

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  • jonimueller

    (@jonimueller)

    Who is your domain registrar? Web host? And what’s the domain? Two weeks is plenty of time for nameserers to propagate.

    Thread Starter bealive

    (@bealive-1)

    Netregistry are both my domain and host people. my domain is https://www.ruthlindsay.com. when I type in the full address into the address bar, it brings the page straight up. It is when I do a search for say .. ruthlindsay.com, it just brings up my other website and says that that one is a parked domain.

    Rajan Vijayan

    (@rajanit2000)

    Hi Ruth.,

    When you got this issue? Are you using any SEO plugins? and finally Are you update your Sitemap on Google Web Master dashboard?

    jonimueller

    (@jonimueller)

    There would be no reason for someone to type a domain/URL into a Google search unless they were attempting to limit the results to that domain. But if you type “Ruth Lindsay” into Google, your actual site is at the bottom of page 1, and other articles about you, and a few obituaries, appear ahead of that. ??

    jonimueller

    (@jonimueller)

    Google and other bots haven’t updated their crawls of the domain apparently which is why you are seeing the parked domain notice. I am no SEO expert by any stretch of the imagination, but if you want good results, think of what kind of site you have…. Who does it cater to? What keywords might someone use if they are looking for a site like yours? And go from there.

    Thread Starter bealive

    (@bealive-1)

    Thanks for your replies. Hi Joni and Rajan, I am using Yoast as a plugin. It was through this that I realised first that I had a problem. At first it was saying that the website was not even verified. I got onto someone and they got it verified, but it hasn’t changed a thing in the search engines. As an author I need people to be able to google my name and see both my websites – one my store and one my blog (long story).

    Thread Starter bealive

    (@bealive-1)

    oh.. and I have no idea what you are talking about with the sitemap thing!! Sorry!! The website is a blog only with links to my facebbok twitter and online store

    • This reply was modified 8 years ago by bealive.
    barnez

    (@pidengmor)

    The Yoast SEO plugin has a sitemap feature which you can activate. It creates a machne readable map of your site: pages/posts/images. Search engines will look for a sitemap, and it will help your site to be indexed faster.

    Enable XML Sitemaps in the Yoast SEO plugin

    Thread Starter bealive

    (@bealive-1)

    Thanks. I will go and look at it.

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