Google Index and Sitemaps
I'm really confused about Google's index. I used to think I understood it really well, but now that I've gotten into this sitemaps business, it's much more confusing.
I mean, Google had www.cedarrapidsalive.com indexed fairly well shortly after I released it. Then I added the link to Google Sitemaps (without submitting an actual sitemap) in an attempt to get the pages picked up faster. It made things worse... So I eventually made an actual sitemap and submitted it. However, now if you check out the index, they only have 2 results indexed, wtf.
QC Alive seems a bit underindexed as well, but it's doing a little better with 514 results. However, I'd really like them to be fully indexed like Des Moines Alive, which currently has about 4,260 results.
It also seems that Google has a much slower process than MSN and Yahoo. When Des Moines Alive was released we got tons of hits from Yahoo and MSN, it took quite a while to start getting them from Google. The same is true for QC Alive and Cedar Rapids Alive. I mean, I launched qcalive.com the first week in June and cedarrapidsalive.com the first week in August. They should definitely be indexed after over a month online, especially with sitemaps submitted.
I'd also like to point out that I don't have a sitemap submitted for any of my sites, except for qcalive and cedarrapidsalive... All of the sites without sitemaps seem to be prospering in Google searches...
Stupid Google. I love you (but not your indexing so much).
Next comes Iowa City Alive... hopefully it'll do better.
I mean, Google had www.cedarrapidsalive.com indexed fairly well shortly after I released it. Then I added the link to Google Sitemaps (without submitting an actual sitemap) in an attempt to get the pages picked up faster. It made things worse... So I eventually made an actual sitemap and submitted it. However, now if you check out the index, they only have 2 results indexed, wtf.
QC Alive seems a bit underindexed as well, but it's doing a little better with 514 results. However, I'd really like them to be fully indexed like Des Moines Alive, which currently has about 4,260 results.
It also seems that Google has a much slower process than MSN and Yahoo. When Des Moines Alive was released we got tons of hits from Yahoo and MSN, it took quite a while to start getting them from Google. The same is true for QC Alive and Cedar Rapids Alive. I mean, I launched qcalive.com the first week in June and cedarrapidsalive.com the first week in August. They should definitely be indexed after over a month online, especially with sitemaps submitted.
I'd also like to point out that I don't have a sitemap submitted for any of my sites, except for qcalive and cedarrapidsalive... All of the sites without sitemaps seem to be prospering in Google searches...
Stupid Google. I love you (but not your indexing so much).
Next comes Iowa City Alive... hopefully it'll do better.