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Indexed but not appearing on Search Results.

Can't get half of my pages fully re-indexed.

         

cechemen

6:50 pm on Mar 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hello:

I have a problem indexing some pages from my site. They used to be indexed for more than a year and they were also appearing on the search results if I typed a keyword or a string of the text from those pages. But suddenly in early November half of the pages were dropped and the other half are still indexed but aren't showing up on the search results anymore.

All these pages have links to them (1 or two clicks from the homepage and other pages on the site). So I don't think it's because google can't find them. The "homepage" has links from DMOZ, Yahoo and many other sites. The exact URL's for the pages I'm talking about might not have many links from other sites.

The pages have our navbar and toolbar like every other page on our site and they have educational articles so they have text to crawl and everything they aren't just links and the text in all pages is different.

I think we are not doing anything out of google's rules but haven't been able to get them fully re-indexed.

If someone knows what's happening I'd appreciate it..

CECHEMEN

hakre

7:38 pm on Mar 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



hi cechemen, welcome to webmasterworld.

maybe you can provide some additional info: have you opened one of your pages with internet explorer and the toolbar installed and checked the pagerank? is it 0 maybe?

cechemen

8:37 pm on Mar 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



The homepage PR is 7/10, a page that isn't indexed is 6/10, and some pages that are indexed vary from 0-6?

CECHEMEN

lazerzubb

6:48 pm on Mar 5, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



First:
Welcome to Webmaster World [webmasterworld.com]
Google Updates and Everflux, the Monthly Mid-Cycle Changes [webmasterworld.com]
Googlebot: Deepbot and Freshbot FAQ and Information [webmasterworld.com]

And only because Freshbot spiders your page doesn't mean that it will store it, if they don't find new content or anything different from the last cache i don't see any reason why they should store it, for them it will only take up more space.
And yes it's quite common that this happens, more often with pages that has less PageRank.