GodLikeLotus - 1:58 pm on Jan 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

Just noticed that when I do the search site:www.domain.com domain Google returns 20 pages no description or titles but the 2nd result is https://www.domain.com. This is also the case if I search site:http://www.domain.com domain.

I am so confused about this "slow death syndrome" the reasons for it happening seem to be changing by the day.

My own problems started in November with our host being down on several occasions, then we added a robots.txt in December which worked fine until our host did something and made the robots.txt return a "403 Forbidden", and now I find myself looking a re-directs. We have several domains pointing to the mother site, these use 200's which from what I have read are fine, however, something I did over a year ago was to make one of the other URL's go to a page that did a refresh after 1 second and then go to the index page, this was just for tracking purposes.

So now I find myself trying to figure out why we have lost all but 20 pages (these only showing the URL)is it all of the above or just 1 of the problems that causes this.

I have removed all the redirects to the site now, got the robots.txt working properly, and hopefully our host is now sorted and we will have no further downtime, we have not had any downtime now for 3 weeks.

I am being tempted to just launch the site under a different URL and starting again. I find just waiting for something that may infact take days, weeks or month just a little bit much.