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A site:example.com search shows pages from the new domain indexed but if I do an exact search of some text from the homepage between quotes nothing shows up.
Does this happen often? Is it simply a fact of waiting for the changes to synchronize across the different data centers? Normally I wouldn't worry and just sit it out, but it has been like this now for the last week already.
Thanks.
Be sure there is not a chain of redirects here.
There should be just one step from old to new.
g1smd: indeed this is the site that we've discussed in the Apache forum, but the homepage is correctly redirected according to several different Server Header Checker tools. The problem I had only affected the subdomains, never the homepage.
Try using smaller phrases as that might work. Or wait for about a week and things will be normal (they will start to show) after another caching by Google.
The site has had 2 new cache dates since it went online, and it is still not showing up for exact text searches.
tedster: I'd like to know the intention of your question. Does the fact that that search does bring up the site have any significance?
1. A search for a unique phrase from the content, in quotes, does not show your home page. That is, "word1 word2 word3 word4 word5" = no results
2. A search for the same quoted phrase, but with site:example.com included, DOES return your home page, with the phrase shown in bold. That is site:example.com "word1 word2 word3 word4 word5" = example.com home page is returned, with the phrase bolded in the snippet.
[edited by: tedster at 8:45 pm (utc) on April 29, 2009]
Quoted text for the home page, nothing (actually, several results headed "without quotes"). Add site:domain.co.uk and it comes up. Remove the word "site:" but leave everything else, nothing at all.
Strangely, very few pages return results except, notably, for a totally ridiculous page, which usually comes up in the top ten for ordinary searches (depending on keywords used).
This is looking at a UK domain using google.com with gl=us as well as with google.co.uk using either Web or UK search.
Still not showing up for any reasonable keyword searches, but hopefully it's just a matter of time.
Although I did do a Reconsideration Request, I now believe the problem above was simply Google sorting itself out after I 301'd an old domain to this new one. At least I hope that's what it was and the site will start showing for keyword seacrhes soon.
