Google is not indexing Pianotell.com at all?

iternabe

@navindra mentioned this in a PianoClack Forum post. I just tested by google search “site:pianotell.com flat hand arch problem” and 0 results came back. This seems serious. What can be done to get Google index our site?

PianoClack seems to be using the same forum. And it comes up in google results when I searched one of their post titles.

navindra

iternabe I just tested by google search “site:pianotell.com flat hand arch problem” and 0 results came back.

I thought this might be a mistake, but sure enough Google indicates this page is not indexed. That's quite a mystery to me given the URL is in the site map. However, it's the case with many other URLs as well — Google confirms they are not indexed.

Google claims even the top level forums are not indexed, so I just submitted them individually for indexing.

This also bothers me.

Search for "piano forum", often Google will tell me "Piano | Tell forum" is a frequently searched term.
However when I click it, the results are anything but.

I have to scroll multiple pages before I finally find PianoTell. Probably the more clicks it gets, eventually it will rank higher.

BartK

Don't use Google. 😉 Results come up just fine in DDG.

navindra

BartK Wow! Looks like we're doing really well in DDG... so it's a mystery why Google is still being so temperamental about PianoTell.

iternabe

navindra Do I remember correctly that Piano Tell changed hosting recently? Could that have anything to do with Google stopped indexing? Like maybe some step to inform Google with site IP or domain registration needs to be redone? Just guessing here.

navindra

iternabe Google delisted us while we were on the previous hosting, coinciding with an outage that we experienced.

We never recovered in the ranking even though hosting has been rock solid since then.