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Don't worry, I'm not broke yet, my site gets the number 2 spot in other search engines, but in the last month I have had absoloutely no referals from google. :( What is going on here?
All of my pages are ASP, however most do not require a querystring to get a result. I have no robots.txt, and don't use any meta-tags to try and stop search engines indexing the page.
The site was recently changed from a completely .htm based site of over 400 pages, to an ASP/DB site with about 30 pages, and it was at this time that all traffic disappeared. I left the 400 htm pages as "this page has been moved, click here for our new page", however about a week ago I culled this down to the 20 most hit htm pages.
Have I done something wrong? Is there any going back? Help!
Nick
Seems like google doesn't like it for some reason. What PR does it have?
Nick
If I click on the cached link, it takes me to an 'empty' cache page which has a meta-refresh of 0.
That would be the problem. Somehow, when Google attempted to crawl your site, it was givven a page containing only
<HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH"CONTENT="0"></HEAD>
That causes a looping effect that prevented it from ever getting a page with any links to crawl. It looks like your site is serving a normal page now, so I would think it would correct itself during the next crawl.
Have you seen Googlebot inyour log files at all this month?
Any, in the last month this is what google has done on my site
com¦googlebot.com 1 0 0 0 0 0
The first 1 is the number of visitors. The second 0 is the number of pages.
Will google come back from here, or could the meta-refresh of 0 in it's cache be stopping it somehow? I only use one page with a meta-refresh, and that has a value of 3. Also, surely google would ignore a meta-refresh tag, as its not really a browser, but an information gatherer?
This leads to my next idea, could a response.redirect in my ASP code be causing this? I use a few of them.
> This leads to my next idea, could a response.redirect in my ASP code be causing this? I use a few of them.
I don't see problems on your home page at present.
I've just today found the site:www.mysite.com search in google, and discovered that it does actually have most of my pages saved (although somewhat old versions)
The site still does not appear in google even after 30 pages of results under the keywords I would like it to. Pages which have the keyword in the once are appearing above mine, which doesn't seem right?
One thing I am wondering is if the 'theme' of my site (another thing I'm just learning about) has become the name of the business, as the name is quite unique, and the real theme (the products we sell) has become overshadowed by our company name?
I was quite pleased when I saw our home-page (the one which still has an empty cache and meta-refresh of 0 in google) has now got a PR4. This is why I am confused as to what the PR4 is for, the product or the name? Surely with a PR4 the page would appear within 30 pages of results for a keyword which has about 15% density (and about 10 occurances) on the default home page? I'm being outranked by PR3 pages, with a keyword accuring once only in the page, and the page and site are on completely different topics. This is still the case when I significantly narrow down the search, even to things which I know are quite unique to our pages, and I know (since I found the site: search) that google has these pages. In fact, the only way I can get our page to appear in google's results is to search our business/domain name.
Any ideas?
PageRank doesn't have anything to do with what your site does or does not show up for in a search. It is just a score that represents the probability of a random surfer stumbling upon your site. A better way to think of it is VisibilityRank.
If a large number of sites on the web were to link to a blank page, that page would be assigned a PageRank score based on the quantity/quality of the linking sites. That score then becomes one factorused in the scoring process that determines how pages are ranked in a search result.
It is quite common for a page with a lower PageRank score to be returned ahead of a similar page with a higher score, because all the additional scoring factors are stronger.
