Ask HN: How long before Google crawls your startup website?

Posted by sergiotapia on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @10:25AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi guys, I finished up our initial version of the website my brother and I are building.

www.smitecamp.com

I added in all recommended SEO tags from SEOMoz and generated a sitemap and submitted to Google Webmaster tools. It's been 5 days now and we still haven't been crawled by Google.

Any idea on how long it takes for Google to actually show your pages? I even searched for an exact "smitecamp.com" and it still shows the old domain-squatter type WHOIS pages.

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Re:Ask HN: How long before Google crawls your startup website? by adamcanady on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @10:26AM (#6327761)

Submit a sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools for starters. Then try to get backlinks from other websites so Google can use an indexable path to your site.

If your site really is www.foobar.com, it appears to be blank right now.

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Re:Ask HN: How long before Google crawls your startup website? by sergiotapia on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @10:28AM (#6327774)

I already submmited a sitemap, but still no crawls. :/

And foobar is just dummy domain to explain my situation.

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Re:Ask HN: How long before Google crawls your startup website? by PrashantPansare on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @10:33AM (#6327811)

You could have just given actual name , google might have indexed it through this back link ;)

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Re:Ask HN: How long before Google crawls your startup website? by sergiotapia on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @10:34AM (#6327817)

@Prashant: I added in the actual domain name, hopefully Google picks it up. :) Good idea!

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