Google Information for Webmasters

If you are responsible for a web site, the following information may be of interest to you. We hope you find it helpful.

A. Submit your URL

1. The basics
2. Submitting your site

B. I've submitted my site to Google and it's still not listed. Why?

1. The 'Add URL' form didn't work.
2. What else can I do to get listed in Google?

A. My web pages have never been included in the Google index.

1. Reasons your site may not be included.
2. Google does not index all of my pages. Why?

B. My web pages used to be listed and now they aren't.

1. Changes from one index to the next
2. Multiple indices
3. Other reasons

A. I need my site information changed.

1. My information is outdated.
2. You continue listing an 'old' version of my site.
3. I am changing my URL.
4. There's no description of my site.
5. The description of my site is wrong in the results.
6. I'm in your index, but not listed as a result for keyword "X".

B. I need my site information removed.

1. Removing a page from the Google index.
2. I don't want Google to keep a cached version of my page.
3. I don't want Google to crawl part or all of my site.
4. Googlebot is asking for robots.txt. Why?
5. Googlebot is trying to download incorrect links from my server.
6. Googlebot is downloading information from our 'secret' server.
7. Googlebot isn't obeying my robots.txt file.
8. I see hits from multiple machines at Google.com all with user-agent Googlebot.
9. Googlebot is crawling my site too fast.
10. I don't want Google to index non-HTML file types on my site.

How does Google rank pages?

1. The basics
2. Why does my page's rank keep changing?
3. I'm changing my URL. How can I maintain my rank?

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