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Hi - first of all, sorry if this is in the wrong place. I'm new here and this looks like the right place for this!

I have recently finished building a website - the main purpose of which is to see if I can generate a few pennies using google's adsense program. A few days ago, I posted a message on a t.v. website to announce the new site (the site is about Susie Dent - a t.v. personality who is well known enough to have some followers, but not so well known that there is already much about her on the web. To my surprise, presumably as a result of the traffic I gained from that announcement, within about 24 hours I found my site was listed on Google - page 25, which isn't great, but it's a start. The strange thing is though, that after just a few hours, I checked again, and my site was nowhere to be found. Not just further down, but actually putting the whole address into the searchbar said there were no matching results. So, why would a page that was listed on google suddenly disappear, and how long should I expect to wait before it returns? I read an article somewhere that said getting onto Google can take up to six months - but surely that can't be true, as there are new sites popping up all the time that are up-to-date, not six months old! And how can google not know about my site when it has googles own addwords on it?! Seems very odd! Any advice appreciated,

thanks,

Ric.

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— this is common and not a sign that you did anything wrong. A URL can be discovered quickly (for example when someone posts a link on a busy forum) but not immediately stay in Google’s searchable index. Discovery, indexing and ranking are separate steps: Google can see a link, decide whether to store the page in its index, and then decide where to rank it. Short-lived appearances usually mean the page was discovered but not yet accepted into the stable index.

Quick diagnostic steps to run now:

# See what Google currently knows
site:yourdomain.com
cache:http://yourdomain.com/thepage

# Check HTTP and robots responses
curl -I http://yourdomain.com/
curl -I http://yourdomain.com/robots.txt

What to look for: a valid 200 HTTP response for the page, no Disallow that blocks crawling, and no meta robots noindex on the page. Check your server logs for Googlebot requests around the time it first appeared; if Google saw a 5xx or 404 when it tried to fetch the page it may have dropped it. Also add the site to Google Search Console, submit an XML sitemap and use the indexing request tool there to speed re-inclusion.

A couple of practical notes tied to the thread: having AdSense (ads) on a page does not force Google to index it — ad-serving and indexing are separate systems. As hinted, external links help longer-term visibility, but they don’t replace the basic accessibility checks above. Ignore gimmicks like Google-bombing; focus on making the page accessible, unique and easy for Googlebot to fetch. If those checks are clean, expect discovery to stabilize in days to a few weeks once you request indexing and keep the content live and linked from relevant pages.

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Ric, google updates their page ranks every couple on months. It is possible your rank will improve next time they update.

As for how the system works, it is actually an alogorithm in which they count the amount of back links to your site and also consider the page rank of that back link.

It is not a very efficient process, but it is their process nonetheless. Good luck!

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Indeed - apparantly my website's address is an antegooglewhackblatt!

2 months seems like an awful long time to wait to get onto the google index - makes me wonder how web developers have the patience!

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