Yes! Im Finally Feeling a Bit of Google Love!
Getting to this point has been incredibly stressful and somewhat demotivating. I was, and remain, fully prepared to not earn any income for quite a while. But the complete lack of acknowledgement is tough :)
I received an email from Google on 5/24 saying they were collecting impressions from my site and I should begin appearing in the search results for some queries. And yet, the Site command has continued to return No Results.
My Google Console account has also reported inconsistent results. For weeks, the sitemap command in Console’s Dashboard has reported at least 10-14 pages indexed. And yet, the Index Status command in the same Dashboard has reported 0 pages indexed, consistent with the Site command.
I admit, I set myself up for this by being overly eager to set up Google Analytics and Console to monitor my site before I had enough content out there. I still only have 8 pages and 10 posts. But it’s hard to resist the urge to push the point. The result? You do your keyword research, perform research around your topic, craft a post, add images and perhaps video, add ALT text attributes and tags for SEO, publish your post and get comments.
You feel good about your efforts and eagerly submit your post with “Fetch as Google”; and then ……… nothing!
That is, until this morning. My Console account now reports 14 pages indexed and for the first time the Site command returns results. Not 14 but we wouldn’t want too much consistency, right?
It’s amazing how exciting such a tiny success can be! You’d think I won the lottery.
What’s that you ask? Where am I ranking? That my friends is a question for another day. I’ve decided I can wait until tomorrow to start stressing about that.
For today, I’m just going to bask! That, and find a very tall Margherita with my name on it :)
Have a great day!
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Congratulations on you finally getting results. I know the feeling, you do All you can and Still something that's not within your control happens and there is Nothing you can do about it.
William
Hi William,
Yes, I rarely feel in control :) But I keep plugging. Thanks for commenting!
Linda.
Great to hear you're seeing some results!
Glad to see that you've kept going at it and it does get easier with time. It takes time to get there for sure...and, it can be discouraging at times no matter where you're at in Google's index.
It all has its ups and downs, but it sure is awesome when things start picking up...and they will get even better as you keep on adding more to your site.
Best wishes :) ~Sherry
Thanks for the encouraging words Sherry :) It is slowly getting better. Just have to stick with it!
It goes up 10% each month as automated google trust you when it pleases to usually about 6 months
dont get discouraged it will be a while before google fully trusts you and you will be doing the google dance, 51 posts later and 3 pages I am only just seeing a tiny bit of love most my post go in at page 3.
Still no page 1 but sure it will come just like yours will
There will be ups and there will be downs just persevere it could take weeks months or years but it will happen
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Congrats on getting it all set up! Your dialogue flows so well it makes us feel like we were there with you along the way.
Thank you, Suz. I appreciate your taking the time to read and comment!