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thing is on my google stats it says my site was last crawled on 12 October (but this new site wasnt even LIVE then, the domain name pointed to the old site) they have a blank page cached for the new site and havent re-crawled. The sitemap shows no error, I do adwords, adsense, google base, set up various links etc, but they havent crawled or have any details for my new site yet - I may be being impatient but my last site was crawled, indexed and showing in first 2 pages of google search within 2 weeks.
Anyone know what might be going on? Have I confused everything by pointing 2 domain names to one site and then closing it and pointing both to the new one?
I also tried to do W3 validator today and it failed saying
"This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional" - I dont understand what that means
Lastly - on the previous hosting I uploaded a file to permanently redirect bots to the new site - this also seems to have disappeared off the server.
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[edited by: tedster at 2:07 am (utc) on Oct. 20, 2006]
Have I confused everything by pointing 2 domain names to one site and then closing it and pointing both to the new one?
My best guess is that yes, that has confused things. Also, make sure that only one domain name resolves directly. Any others should 301 redirect to the main domain name and not be "pointed" through any other approach than a 301 Permanent Redirect. Otherwise your future with Google search results could be extremely problematic, due to duplicate urls pointing to the sme exact content.
See this thread for more information on duplicate issues:
Duplicate Content - Get it right or perish [webmasterworld.com]
