SEO for product review blog – google not picking up posts

  • David

    (@dafinney12gmailcom)


    11 years, 6 months ago

    I’m new to the web development arena, so please be patient with me. I have recently launched a “magazine” style outdoor gear review blog (https://www.gearreportcards.com), and I’m having trouble getting google to pick up the posts. And by trouble, I mean its not picking them up at all. If I search for one of my posts, it actually finds the homepage with the post description in the slide show, but not the actual post. I’ve submitted a sitemap, included plenty of keywords (but not over the top), and I’m using the SEO ultimate plugin.

    I’ve also noticed that on my webmaster page with google, it has “under” and “construction” listed as the top keywords. I had a “coming soon” plugin for the first few weeks while I built the site, and it seems that may have been a mistake.

    I appreciate any and all help that anyone can give. Thanks.

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  • When did you launch the site? It does take a few weeks for Google to crawl sites.

    Thread Starter David

    (@dafinney12gmailcom)

    Christine – thanks for reaching out. I launched the site 5 or 6 weeks ago, but I had the “under construction” plugin activated. I deactivated that a week ago.

    If google crawling the site is the problem, how do I know when google has crawled the site? I used the “fetch” feature on their webmaster tools, and it didn’t come back with any errors. Do I just need to wait at this point?

    I’m not really sure. I personally would wait and perhaps think of new blog posts to add. Google does like fresh/new content.

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