Index Page Nuked - Rest of site ok

[theleveller]

Hi,

During the last few months my 'widget' site has grown and attained a few top ten listings along the way all be it other pages on my site and not the main entry page.

The entry page is not listed on the search engines i.e. the robot seems to have overlooked my index.asp page..

The page is quite big (40K+), and i have worked on the page a bit to ustilise the keyword, <h1>'s <p>'s but still no listing..

Is there any way i can check to see why the page doesnt show up?

Should i cut down the size as the robot maybe ignoring it because of its size?

Thanks

Leveller

[2_much]

If you're talking about the site on your profile, then the index page is listed. It doesn't include the index.asp, but is listed as www.domain.com

If that isn't the site you're referring to, I doubt that page size is the problem. Do you have enough inbound links to it? Have you spammed Google?

If you don't have enough links pointing to it, try and find some. If you've spammed Google, you may have been penalized, in which case you could try and get reinstated.

Finally, it could just be a matter of freshbotness or random behavior due to update Dominic.

[TeofenGL]

the robot should not be ignoring it because of size (the limit on indexed info is 101K - which means that if you have a 200K page, only the first 101K will be indexed)

how are the other, indexed pages linking back to the homepage?

[theleveller]

The rest of the pages refer to it via a full url [widgets.com...]

Its just i worked on the index.asp page to be the main hit page but it just seem to ignore it and move on through the rest of my site..

Not all bad, but im sure id attain a better listing if the my index page is the one that counts..

Thanks for your replies..

And yes 2_much its the one in my profile, ill check if its been penalized, but i dont think i've tried any underhand tricks to get listed..

[TeofenGL]

your index page does appear to be indexed (heh) - try a search for just your 2nd level comain (without www. or .com)

[Netizen]

Try this in Google:

site:www.domain.com "relevant keyword" [clothing, for instance].

If you click on "omitted results" you'll see a whole bunch, including the index.asp file.

[theleveller]

Sorry for being Mr Dumb, but why are the results omitted?

Leveller

[Netizen]

Because Google thinks they are pretty similar to those it's already showing.

[taxpod]

I see your index.asp in the index also. It carries the same PR as domain/. If that isn't your default page what is? Are you saying you have index.html and index.asp and the asp page isn't showing up as your default? That's your fault not G's. You need to configure your server to display .asp before it looks for .html, .htm, etc.

<edit>But it does seem as if you've done everything OK and you are in the index with your .asp page. What isn't working is a search for "yourdomain.com" which is weird because your .asp page is definitely cached and ranked.</edit>

[skipfactor]

The entry page is not listed on the search engines...

I'd blame Dominic. My home page has been missing/reappearing for the better part of a month.

I'm starting to believe that it's always been there, but for some reason, only my homepage seems to mostly carry February crawl data; it's appears in the SERPs when I search for my old Feb title.

Not all bad, but im sure id attain a better listing if the my index page is the one that counts..

I'd bet those hurting the most from Dominic relied too heavily upon their homepage for traffic. Brett's 100-page (minimum) theory has carried me through this homepage drought.

[theleveller]

Ill check my server, and remove index.html if it exists.. With regard to dominic the page has never shown in the lists since I got he ball rolling in 2002..

It seems that ive done something a little wrong and ill crawl through the forum for something similar again..

Thanks for all your input.. and lets hope google fixes itself soon..

Cheers

Leveller