Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
If I do a site:example.com, I do not see this banner ad URL. So I'm not sure if Google sees this URL as being part of my site or not.
My pagerank 4 homepage is not being cached right now. The homepage description has been replaced with the dmoz description. Here is an edited version of my log:
2007-07-25 03:41:13 66.249.66.5 ... GET /home.php utm_source=bannercompany.com&utm... HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+Googlebot/2.1;++http://www.google.com/bot.html) - -
I bought 2 banner ads from the same webmaster who runs two very respected sites. The ads were bought in the beginning of July. The slightly younger ad (bought earlier by a couple of days) is not showing up in search results for my domain name eventhough it is on a higher pagerank site than the banner that's giving me problems. The ads have the same URL format, but may link to my site in different ways I guess. I'm not technical enough to know.
I don't know why this is happening. I have been fooling around with robots.txt in order to get rid of supplemental results (I have dynamic pages). I checked my robots.txt before upload with google validation tool in webmaster tools, and it was okay. However, when google did the actual crawling, I saw an error in webmaster tools that said google could not find my homepage. I made some changes and the error message disappeared.
BTW, the banner ad does not appear in Yahoo! or MSN search results for my domain.
Am I making a mountain out of a mole hill? I've emailed google a couple of days ago, but I don't know if I'll get a response.
However, I can appreciate that you might not want to see the DMOZ description. If that's the case, you might want to try using the NOODP meta tag:
Google Supports NOODP tag [webmasterworld.com]
