Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
is this normal? I'm puzzled. with roll out of bigdaddy, i get different results on old data centers and bigdaddy data centers. the new blue widgets folder has been expanded, and the site has been expanded.
on old data centers:
site:widgets.com - appx. 180
site:widgets.com - appx. 20
on bigdaddy:
site:widgets.com - appx. 230
site:widgets.com - appx. 60
The fact that the query results with /bluewidgets are different is definitely to be expected. But the fact that site:widgets.com/bluewidgets results cannot be found in the site:widgets.com results is extremely odd.
I am aware of a site that has had a 301 redirect from www to non-www in place for a year now. Prior to that, the pages were previously only partially listed, some pages were listed twice, once as www and again as non-www, and many were URL-only. Some pages were not listed at all. The site had about 150 pages.
After adding the 301 redirect it took Google only a few weeks to fully list all of the non-www pages, and several months to drop the www pages. All was looking good.
A few months later (Summer 2005) Google added about 70 www pages back into the listings, all as "Supplemental Results". These show up for site:www.domain.com searches, but do NOT show up on site:domain.com searches.
Eight months later they are still all there.
A few months after the original www additions, about another 90 more www pages appeared, again all as "Supplemental Results", but these www pages appeared only in SOME datacentres. However, for site: searches these www pages do appear in both of the site:domain.com and in site:www.domain.com searches as expected.
The other 70 www pages still only appear in site:www.domain.com searches, and still do NOT appear in any site:domain.com searches. All of these www pages have had a 301 redirect in place for over a year now.
The emails that I received from the Google Helpdesk were no help whatsoever. I kept getting "cut and paste" answers that showed they had absolutely no clue what I was talking about. And, it is also painfully obvious that they were never passed on to anyone who did have a clue, either.
on old data centers:
site:widgets.com - appx. 180
site:widgets.com/bluewidgets - appx. 20
on bigdaddy:
site:widgets.com - appx. 230
site:widgets.com/bluewidgets - appx. 60
I wonder if it makes a difference that the design of the site in the /bluewidgets folder is completely different. do you think Google realizes this as almost a new site? I feel like the /bluewidgets directory results are sand boxed.
