: Major Indexing problem with my site Possible Duplicate: I cannot see my website in google Hey guys I am having problem with indexing my site http://www.loosediamondschicago.com which

@Bethany197

There is a setting in the Wordpress menus for choosing to have or not have the www on the domain. Change it to what you want to use and resubmit the sitemap. Also validate both the www and non-www domain in webmaster tools and set the settings in webmaster tools to prefer one over the other.

Be patient. Google doesn't always index new sites quickly. In fact they can be extremely slow unless you get loads of high ranking backlinks. If there's no other errors showing up other than the www/non-www issue in the sitemap, then get on with building the site and google will come by when it comes.

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@Deb1703797

I think it's just a matter of time. Have your site being up for just 4 days (see your poinn 4)?

About some of your points:

(3) I'm not WP expert, but certaintly you might find something about how to go and remove the www (maybe in .htaccess). Anyway using www or not does not affect Google, I mean it obviously can index www and not-www sites

(4) 4 days is not a long time, couldn't you wait 10 to 30 days?
Yes your site should be crawled anyway, even without sitemap, as long as you submitted it to Google or Google found a link to your site.

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@Frith620

First you should check the webmaster tools and see if there's anything wrong there (crawl errors, fetch as googlebot). In case there are no errors there all you can really do is wait and see. I submitted my sitemap to google and it still took about a week for them to index the pages on my site (the site itself exists for over 4 years now). 2 weeks is definitely not long for google to come and index. Pages i have read have said that they will usually index within 6 weeks, but there's no guarantee of that either.

Just make sure you fix any errors you may have on the site, submit a sitemap if possible, and wait. What you could do, however, to speed up the process is try to get other sites to link to your site, then when google crawls that site they might come over to your site and crawl it. But even that might take a while (and i wouldn't suggest just spamming your url in forums/comments (they also have a nofollow in the comments usually).

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