Google search not showing Pianotell

JohnCW

Am I the only one who if they search for 'Pianotell' on Google it displays nothing? Same deal on my Laptop running on the home network as my mobile on a mobile network. The only results are references to it on Piano World.

I original came to the site via a hyperlink posted on Piano World. Going to be a quiet (maybe that's a good thing) if people can't find the site by searching with their browser.

Sgisela

navindra JohnCW
I was getting it as the top hit pretty reliably before the site went down yesterday. However, since then, I’m not seeing it. I think things will straighten themselves out over time, though.

Rubens

https://forum.pianotell.com/d/693-still-un-googlable/

Sophia

It shows up in Google for me now - second link, right under PianoClack 👍
Perhaps Australia takes a little longer still?

iternabe

Just keep generating good, interesting, and informative discussions?

navindra

Yeah, I can't say I understand what's going on with it.

Sometimes it shows up for me on Google as the top link and sometimes it's not to be found. Bing seems to be more consistent here.

Google Search Console seems to think it's set up fine.

twocats

navindra I wouldn't worry about it, it's still a brand new site by Google standards. If we all keep hanging out here it'll happen 🙂

navindra

Sgisela Could someone in the know please tell me why Google seems to have delisted PianoTell?

Searching for "PianoTell" literally on Google does not return any direct links.

Everything looks good in Google Search Console.

Bing seems fine as well and I see PianoTell in the results even just searching for "piano forum" there.

Gombessa

Weird. Have you tried https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome ?

navindra

Gombessa Yes, indeed. It all looks good there. According to the search console, it's indexing and everything.

hebele

It seems to have it indexed. I can see 2 days old posts: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apianotell.com+navindra

But it doesn't list it in relevant searches like "pianotell". The first page is full of mentions but not the real thing.

Rubens

It's amazing how well the forum has grown without even being googlable yet! But I think the best thing would be for it to show up when people google "piano forum", or "piano message board".

Gombessa

Rubens the best thing would be for it to show up when people google "piano forum", or "piano message board".

+100, I was going to suggest the same! Don’t need to go crazy with white on white hidden text, but some basic SEO like a byline “Piano Tell — piano forum for all” or something to that extent should help.

The oddest, and probably not ideal issue is if I search “piano tell”, the site does show up, but all of the second-level results are to user profile pages, like SamS. That’s probably not what anyone wants.

Killomiter

One way of getting google to take notice is for all members to do this simple thing. Go into to Google and type in the address fully in the search bar then hit return. If we all do this each time for say a week eventually the search will being to register and trigger a bot call to the site.

TC3

Killomiter I'm going to start doing this every five minutes. 😃

Sophia

I'm wondering if the cache is set to a little too aggressive? Sometimes when I visit the P|T/all page, it shows me notifications and/or updates of two days ago unless I manually refresh the page. And if I click "private messages" for example, it will show me all conversations and when I click back to all conversations, it'll stubbornly stay with the PM page.

No idea if they are related, but I was just thinking that perhaps bots are not getting current information and might be more inclined to dismiss the site if it thinks it isn't active?

Gombessa

Sophia Sometimes when I visit the P|T/all page, it shows me notifications and/or updates of two days ago unless I manually refresh the page.

Hmm, I've been seeing this as well. In fact, sometimes I'll have clicked through all my notifications to clean them out (I'm a very inbox-zero kind of guy), and if I then hit refresh, some of the marked-as-read notifications will again be shown as new, even though I know I specifically cleared them out.

navindra

Wow, that's an improvement, thanks all for working your magic!

If "piano forum" is returning PT as a result on Bing/DDG, that is a nice win!

I think the page rank on Google is finally starting to recover as well. We were indexed but not ranking except for direct searches like pianotell.com... which is of no value. Now I'm starting to see results with looser search terms. I guess all the links and sigs from PW are helping lift the rank. 🙂

Sophia Gombessa Just so that I understand, you're opening a browser window (on mobile or desktop?) and it's loading with stale content? This is not just some window that's already open — it's actually a freshly loaded page that has stale content?

twocats

Gombessa by the way, if you want to clear them all you can click on the checkbox on the top right (at least on mobile)!

Gombessa

twocats Ah, I hadn't even realized that was there. Ty!

twocats

Gombessa I also like a clean inbox, so I get it! 😂