New pages are not being Indexed since may 15th

[NGeN]

Hello,
My site's new pages are not being indexed by google.My older pages are still there in the index and are returning traffic almost at the usual rate [ almost equal to the pre - may 15 period]
i didnt change anything in my pages and
why is it that google paused [ i hope its only a pause! ] indexing of my site?

help please

[Quadrille]

Is the fresh content new and original?

Do you have a sitemap?

Is the new stuff linked as part of a logical and fully-functional navigation system? (check with xenu).

Does your site adhere to Google's guidelines for webmasters?

How old is the site?

Did you do anything BEFORE may 15 that may have changed things?

[tedster]

Another key question - is googlebot still visiting?

[NGeN]

Content is new.. i started this site some months ago. i have been active for sometime now.

and no copying anyways, im running a gadget site , so it needs articles from other sites but im nt copying. i write in my own style no cut and paste stuffs.

My site doesnt have any borken links and new pages goes to my front page and the old ones to the archive so they are still viewable by spiders i presume.
i have a sitemap also with all the pages and the archives included.

i did a .htm to .php change during may 10 but pages after that also got indexed and the pages now present in the index are all .php pages.

Googlebot is visiting. i made my stats program look for it today.
But the problem is that it isnt visiting the new pages.only some already indexed pages and archives only.

what is the problem.is it due to any change in google's algorithm or something like that.
Thanks before hand.

[edited by: NGeN at 7:30 pm (utc) on May 29, 2007]

[NGeN]

Oh i just remembered. i was using Ultimate Tag Warrior before and i removed it on 10th just because i thought it was causing too much DB load.and now when i tried xenu.it uses 301 redirect for the current tag manager.
is that bad?

also google used to index ultimate tag warrior's tags but google doesnt index the current tag mangers tags

im using wordpress engine.

[NGeN]

help pls..

now i think that the reason is the file name restructuring to .php from .htm i had done back at that time..!

is that right?. i need advice

[Quadrille]

i didnt change anything in my pages

But now it seems you changed almost everything!

It's always difficult to work out what happened without seeing the site - it's impossible when we don't have VERY clear info!

Sorry!

[NGeN]

hi,
i understand that.and thanks.

hey one good news.i chnaged the file structure backto .htm and used the old tag manager.and its now crawling through those.
but i think its reading those pages and taking some 5 minutes between those crawls.

thats a good sign . right?

[webastronaut]

For real though. You make your comments then start a new sentance without a break at the perioud and maybe misspsell a wrord or twe.im sure this must have some efeect?

[blackmax]

If you do change your pages from .htm to .php again you should change your htaccess file or do some other form of 301 redirection so the search engines know where to go.

[NGeN]

i did that redirect when i changed first and im doing it in reverse now
:( .php to .htm .
When i first changed to .php from .htm google bot updated its index of all those pages to .php but didnt take in any new pages at all.
Now im hoping that it wil like the .htm pages.

@webastronaut :i typed the above comments without looking twice.i was worried and still am about my site.if you would have thought about my situation you would hav understood that.ok..
thanks for pointing out that though my friend. and i do spell check for mistakes that might creep up when im publishing articles but my worry is not about SERPs [ for now] , My pages are not being even crawled.! spelling mistakes cant stop googlebot crawling i think.can they?

Anyone with better ideas than changing back to .htm?
[ i dont know whether i was a bit over reactive in changing that extension back ]

[edited by: NGeN at 8:53 am (utc) on May 31, 2007]

[g1smd]

If you change your site from static HTML pages to instead use PHP scripts, tell your server to process filenames ending in .html as PHP scripts. Then, NONE of your URLs need to change at all and there is no need for any redirects either. As far as users and search engines are concerned, nothing has changed.

At worst, continue to link to .html filenames, and use an internal rewrite to translate the requested URL into a PHP filename that delivers the content. The user will not see that PHP filename, only the old .html URL.

[NGeN]

I'm using wordpress from the beginning .
I first changed to .htm , the wordpress permalinks doesnt have any extension .Then i changed it to use .php and that's what i think made googlebot stop crawling my site.It wasnt crawling at all.
Then yesterday i again swtiched back to .htm. Now everything is as it was before May 10 th. [ i had a backup :) ].
But will this make Gbot start crawling normally?.