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My home page is a PR5, but when I type in under links www.mysite.com/index.html, google show nothing. Does this mean it has been removed or delisted? Other pages show up and I can see search result were www.mysite.com is listed.
Anybody able to tell me what might be the problem?
but when I type in under links www.mysite.com/index.html
Do you mean "link:www.example.org" indicating no backlinks?
What happens if you just type in www.example.org/ or www.example.org/index.html? Those should show the page if it's listed. If nothing shows, yet it is in the serps, then that's rather odd. Usually they would drop from both at the same time.
Ledfish, are you hoping to see the specific /index.html in the serps? That's the default page so it's shown just as www.example.com. All the same, if you type www.example.com/index.html into Google, that will still show the page if it is listed, along with www.example.com and www.example.com/
If a search of link:www.example.com shows nothing, then could it be perhaps because you have your PR5 from many <PR4 pages? G will only show PR4 =/+ pages.
If I type in allinurl: site:www.mysite.com it lists about 900 pages, of the 450 google lets me see, not one is index.html or even just my home page (i.e. www.mysite.com. It will not allow me to see all 900 because if says that "some similiar pages have been omitted from the results"
If I type in allinurl: site:www.mysite.com/index.html, google says no result found.
If I type in link:www.mysite.com, it shows about 50 backlinks, none are my index.html page or www.mysite.com
If I type in link:www.mysite.com/index.html, I get the same result as above.
I have searched high and low for my homepage, can't find it.
Also, my homepage is completely unique. I don't even use the same graphics or graphics file names on it that I use on other pages in my site on it on any other pages. The only similiarity to other pages is that they are all on the same site and that a few share the same keywords or phrases (theme), although the titles are unique for all of my pages.
Then why don't you just search on the unique text.
search for "unique text"
but again, if I do a search using allinurl: www.mysite.com, then the root listing is not anywhere to be found in the results that google will show me and it would since the age can not in anyway fall into that "similiar results omitted" category since it an extremely unique page to the rest of my pages.
If I type in link:www.mysite.com, it shows about 50 backlinks, none are my index.html page or www.mysite.com
www.example.com is the same as www.example.com/index.html. You will only see it as a backlink for itself if you have something like a name anchor, <a name="link to further down on the page">see below</a> on the index page.
To clarify things: link:www.example.com will show pages of PR4, and better, that link to the index.html of your site. If your index.html has no link to your index.html, then it will not show up as a backlink, because it isn't one.
The easiest way to see if a page is indexed by Google is to simply type the entire URL of the specific page into the search box. In your case, because it is the default page, you can do this by searching for www.example.com or www.example.com/index.html. If the page is listed you will see this:
Google can show you the following information for this URL:* Show Google's cache of www.example.com
* Find web pages that are similar to www.example.com
* Find web pages that link to www.example.com
* Find web pages that contain the term "www.example.com"
<edit>changed the URL in the example above... I phased out and used my own homepage URL at first... sorry about that</edit>
But if you get a PR reading, either it hasn't happened yet, or there are internal links pointing to /index.html which is preventing it from happening.
But have now just checked and found the situation has changed. For my site www.mydomain.com/index.php now has the same PR as www.mydomain.com/. A search on www.mydomain.com/index.php shows it is indexed, but Google is clearly treating it as identical to / because when I click 'link to' the backlink search is made on www.mydomain.com/, not www.mydomain.com/index.php.
Just goes to show I should check before bursting into print. :(
If the site you are taking about is the one in your profile, then your home page is default.html. Your index.html and index2.html are ordinary pages, and as you say only about half are indexed perhaps index.html may show up when the rest are indexed.
However you may be confusing Google by having both a default.html and an index.html, so I wouldn't count on it.
But the name index.html is the most frequently used name for a home page. Google may be confused because you don't usually find the names index.html and default.html on the same site.
To play safe you could always rename index.html to index1.html.
