newbie with no index in google - What's Up?

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Hey - My site has been up for about 5 months and Google still has not indexed it. I have several links to and from my site but google has yet to pick up more than my home page. in fact it calls my homepage "Music" instead of "Home".Is there an error in my code? I'm not using any robots tag.Any feedback on the site is appreciated.http://www.armanbohn.comthanks,-aThe HTML code that makes up your homepage is not very search engine friendly, it's a bit heavy. I reckon the search engine spider cannot navigate past your home page to the other pages i.e. it cannot find the other links on your pageI ran your site through a handy tool that emulates the way the Google spider operates and it did not find the links on your site.To see this follow this link: http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.armanbohn.com%2FI would work on simplifying the HTML on your page (maybe using a different web page editor). I would recommend adding a site map to your home page also.By the way other than the above issues, I really like that site That whole Atari feel to it is great!I love that tool GardenStew...Anyway, yeah some major changes need to be done. Just to start out...get some actual text, a more descriptive title tag, a description tag, and loose the buttons or at least create some actual text links. That will allow you whole site to get spidered. Also, get some links pointing to your site. Try adding your site to your Ozzu signature and post some more.If this does not help, this happened to two sites I have come across...the firewall on the server was actually blocking search engine spiders.I've been having the same problem with my site. I've done a bunch of stuff to get my whole site to get spidered, including converting the whole site to cleaner XHTML and adding a site map text link at the bottom of the page. Nothing I've done has changed the results. Only my home page is getting indexed. I also got rid of the javascript link rollovers and replaced them with CSS rollovers. What more is there for me to do? Here's my link if you think you can help. http://www.undergroundwriters.comYou need to lose the buttons or create a site map or create text links in the footer of your site. This way the spiders can find their way through your site.When I use Poodle, I get all of my pages spidered. I'm not sure why it didn't work for you (or Google).I'll try to add a text link on the home page to a text based site map and see how that goes.I do have some links to/from some prominent Atari sites and indie filmmaker sites. DCFC should link to me soon as well.It sounds like the site map didn't work for this other guy though one other thing - google DID spider my whole site about a month after I put it up. a fw dys later only the home page came up. It's been that way ever since.-aoh yeah - the editor I use is some free POS called Netobjects Fusion. It really likes to crash on me!Oh well - it's my first and probably only site. I've never done flash either....-avetofunk wrote:and what exactly do you mean by buttons? Any image link? Why would it be harder for the spider to follow the href on an image than it is on text? Can you explain?Just a thought but do you think "HOME" is too general for a title?You can look at the cached text on Google to see what is being indexed. For your home page there is little or no text that could be used, but the links to lower pages do show up.I wonder if the lower pages are not SE friendly as well?So - I added a sitemap and it seems google has crawled my site again. I'm still not getting my site indexed. It has however added my Info/News page. There is a link on the page that goes to a site that links back to me - maybe that's why google decided it was "worthy".Also - Why is the header on Google for my homepage "Music" instead of "Home". The music page has a link off of the Home page but I'm sure "Home" is Home.....-?ArmanWhat is it you are looking for?site:www.armanbohn.com shows ...Quote:Yeah - It looks like Google has caught up with me.Now to generate some traffic ................... I would suggest changing the rollover images on the left to be static links or plain images (not rollover) including alt tags.For the title, change the stuff between the <title></title> to be what you want the page title to be. Google will either go by that, or the first few words to be the title of the site.If you are dead set on using the mouse over images, I would consider putting static html links in the footer of the page. Google cannot index javascript rollover images such as the mouse over you are using.Good luck.Neorunner.com