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An Indexing Orphan

Can't get one directory indexed, all others fine!

         

dibbern2

6:25 pm on Sep 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I've been adding content -pages and new directories- to an old established site that has had no indexing/ranking problems.

One new directory (actually an old deleted directory, now restored)
has been sitting for 60 days and G will only index one odd, interior page. There are about 20 pages total, and the structure is pretty plain vanilla, index.page >>>interior pages.

All my other new folders (some brand new, some old deletes that are restored) have been indexed in 3 to 21 days with no problems.

I've checked and confirmed that my robots.txt; index,follow metas, and link structure are okay. I've looked at title and description tags, and there are no duplications or other odd stuff. This folder (and most) has it's own site/map record at G-Tools. They report "one file not found", but when I open the 'details' tag, its empty. They also report a 'last' crawl date over 2 years ago! Something is goofy, obviously, between G-Tools and this one directory.

I have a nagging idea in the back of my mind that I've done something dumb, that I'm missing some obvious step.

Any ideas? Thanks for the millionth time for the help available here.

dibbern2

7:16 am on Sep 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

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No luck, huh?

Bones

8:09 am on Sep 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Are the pages being crawled, but not indexed? Or are they not even being crawled as G-Tools is reporting?

If they're not even being crawled, perhaps it's worth checking your htaccess file for some screwy mod rewrites etc? And you could try running Xenu Link Sleuth over the site. Using a server header checking tool on the pages in question might also help narrow down where the problem lies.

Good luck!

dibbern2

4:41 pm on Sep 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Thanks, Bones. I'll give the Xenu a try.