View Full Version : Index my pages GoogleBot comeon!

soulja90
03-31-2006, 01:06 PM
Can any expert tell me why google is not indexing my pages? I mean my home page is their but not the rest - I have feeling its my meta tags but highly doubt it.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta name="description" content="Drop Shipper Directory">
<meta name="keywords"
content="drop shipper, drop shipper directory, Drop Shipping, Drop Ship, Drop Ship Source Directory, Drop Shippers, Wholesale Products, wholesale directory, wholesale manufacturer, distributor">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="English">
<meta name="rating" content="General">
<meta name="distribution" content="Global">
<title>Drop Shipper Directory</title>

Its funny cuz my hosting blue voda, the first time i uploaded it - all my page got indexed and got a page rank of 4 on pages (I uploaded 5 in total).

Now, I have tons of quality content, optimized everything, robots.txt all set - is google bot acting funny? I don't think it has updated even the big boys since the 28nd of this march.

Just wondering? I also used google site-maps but no luck.

Any help or insight would be necessary.

my hosting service is vodahosting

My site is WDclub.com (I use to come to this forum a long time ago so I don't remeber if we were allowed to post URLs or not? sorry guys and gals - let me know k! Thanks!)
Paz
04-01-2006, 12:00 AM
Hi!

Long time not see..... :D

Yeah you appear to have 9100 pages that Google is aware of, but most of them are supplemental and the pages themselves don't exist anymore (since August 2005?).

Did you have a big navigational change recently? I notice there's a mixture of www and non-www pages - that can cause confusion for the bots because they can end up trying to spider and index 2 identical sites. I notice you are using absolute urls now - when did you switch to those?

I always try to avoid big navigational changes to a site, but if I have to, I use a 301 redirect to the new pages where possible.

Cheers,
Paz.
soulja90
04-01-2006, 09:08 AM
Yeah as soon as I so your name I was like -yup dats paz!

Hows it going - i hope all is well -seoguy.com just became a community site:)

anyways, thanks for your response:

I did have a recent navigational change. Now im conentrating on content and my customers than other things (finally runnin a bussiness like i should)

However, I woudl really like to know how I can get my pages indexed again.

*they are all well linked - great content - i used xenu link checker.

If by aboslute URLS mean hell-my-name-is.html -this was part of my navigational change.

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I notice there's a mixture of www and non-www pages - that can cause confusion for the bots because they can end up trying to spider and index 2 identical sites.
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How can I fix this - plus what are www and non www pages

u suggest something about 301 redirects - should I start using them - if so how -

I just want all my pages to be indexed regularaly - they are on msn atleast most of them just not on yahoo or google - thanks and have a great weekend
Paz
04-01-2006, 09:28 PM
Hi,

things are going well here thanks and we're growing. I was particularly happy to welcome this member to them forum personally:
http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11388&goto=newpost

but...

There's nothing wrong with your tags, it's the navigational change that has hurt you in Yahoo and Google - I'd usually recommend against major navigational changes and instead find a way to restructure your site keeping the old filenames.

But it's done now, and it will take time in Google, who is a very confused bunny now. There are all these new pages that have to be re-indexed, reprocesssed, re-analysed, re-evaluated etc and all that takes time. Also if you have the same content on pages with different filenames, then you will run up against a duplicate content filter until Google figures out that the old page has gone for sure. You appear to have had 1000's of pages indexed, and I think it'll take months for you to recover.

As you know, MSN acts the quickest, Google next, and you can forget about Yahoo for some time now.

You're using a linux-based server, so you should do a crash course on using htaccess to 301 redirect pages. Have a look at these, and get back to us when you are ready to give it a try.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/3026.htm
http://websitehelpers.com/seo/redirecting.html

to get an idea of how it can work...

Then have a look at how you can use regular expressions to handle redirecting of multiple files:

http://www.gnc-web-creations.com/301-redirect.htm


Cheers,
Paz.
soulja90
04-03-2006, 11:19 AM
Thank you for your solid reply - I will look into the 301 direct thing and if I have any questions, I'll definitley let you know. It sucks because yahoo was giving me such good rankings - oh well :)

I'm still number one under my top keywords so its all good.

Take care!

JB