Rollo - 11:35 pm on Jul 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

There's no problem with any of the usual suspects... .htacces and robots.txt are fine. It is in the index with many 1,000s of pages of real content, the problem is that its just not ranking for its main keyword now that the content has been moved to /en - the crawling is fine.

I thought that Google would pick it up quickly. The site was on www.example.com in English and in the top 10 for years. The only change I made was to move the English content to www.example.com/en. Google no longer ranks the English site for its main keyword... but it has indexed the English content and it does spider it. The issue is that the main English page, now at www.example.com/en, won't rank.

I imagine it's because many links went to www.example.com and not www.example.com/en and are now mismatched with the language, but still... I don't see why Google doesn't know that. The site is clearly has the most extensive content for a well-defined topic.

[edited by: Rollo at 11:45 pm (utc) on July 17, 2009]