Hello Guys,
I am facing a similar problem with a twist. I redesigend our website with a new template. I have made heavy use of CSS and there is some extra javascript which I have kept in a separate file. The page is mostly html. The pagerank of our webiste had dropped to 4 even before we did the redesign. This had prompted us to do the redesign. Google has never indexed more than the home page of this website. This website was created out of our main website which continues to do well. We had always thought that may be due to similarity of content google did not wish to spider more than the home page of the younger sibling. So in our redesign we changed the content too. Prior to the redesign this website had always enjoyed No.1 spot for a very crucial keyword while our main website would follow in the 4th or 5th spot. This continued to happen after the redesign.
But approximately after two weeks of the new design being launched the website has dropped to the third page for that keyword (something that has never happened) and our competitor who has smaller page rank than us and very sparse density of keywords is now occupying the No.1 spot. To top this all, Google has still not indexed the inside pages of the redesigned website. One thing to be noted here is that our main website has stayed stable throughout this turmoil for that particular keword i.e. at the fourth spot.
could someone tell me what we should do to bring the redesigned website back up? Why google refuses to spider the inside pages? Why did we get dropped for a keyword for which we have always maintained the top position? Side note- I did notice that the homepage of the redesigned page is 35k, while the earlier home page used to be around 22k. The reason for increase in size is that the powers wished to have more jazz on the homoe page. This included pull down menus ( I used CSS for that ) and an automatic slide show that would play on the home page changing the pictures every 5 seconds from a bank of 30pictures.
I know this is a long post...took me some time to write it down....So any worthwhile answer will be appreciated.
thank you
