Getting Pages Reindexed Before I'm Fired!

[javawookie]

Hi All

Back in February I created a small 6 page preview site ready for the launch of a 500 + page site in August.

I figured it would take a couple of months in and out of the index and then Googlebot would come round daily and when the new site was swapped over to our main domain we would get a full index in a matter of days.

All this was going to plan until about 6 weeks ago, the whole site dissapeared from the index inc a URL search. Googlebot seems to have stopped visiting, last time was about 4 weeks ago and it only indexed the home page.

I hoped after the last update I would reappear, but only for the URL address, I can't be found under any keywords.

Has anyone got a ideas what I can do to get this site indexed again, before I got fired

Thanks

Steve

[javawookie]

One question I have regarding the bots is using my logs
I know the date and times the Googlebot has been around.

You say add fresh content for the bots, but if the last time it visited was the 11 June what difference will it make.

11 June,2003, 9:58 am / Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)
23 May,2003, 7:47 am /bar-accessories.html Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)

Or am I wrong?

[onlineleben]

OK, you know when the Googlebot has been around, but do you know when it will come back? So just change your content a little bit now and then and wait for the results.

[javawookie]

Good idea!

[a2ztranslate]

one possible cause is a web host server getting itself into trouble with the engine; i've seen it once before where a major spamming operation was undertaken from within a website hosting company, the engine (not google) picked it up and promptly dumped everything out that was hosted from the same place. i have no idea how they knew who was on the same web host and really dont understand it all myself; it was the web host who told us and we had to move.

[aravindgp]

Hi Java,
good that you like some ideas.
True everyday a page is hell of a task, what "onlineleben" suggests seems to be simply and effective to be implemented.

>>You say add fresh content for the bots, but if the last time it visited was the 11 June what difference will it make

I belive this needs to be approached in 2 dimensional way.One keep working on content and two keep working on building links.

The links you build will get you the bot, this bot I presume will decided whether it's new or not, if it again comes through some other link then if it notices that content changed it would note that too.So next time it encounters your site on it's routine of incoming links it may come to you more often.

Thus the third dimension of frequency and indexing is taken care of :)

Giving you the grand picture of your big site being indexed....:)

With Regards
Aravind

[javawookie]

Hi Everyone

Thanks for all your help and ideas.

I think there is light at the end of the tunnel, I know I can use PPC's and Ad words and their are other engines out there but Google is still the 'Top Dog'

I will look carefully at everyones ideas and let you all know how I get on

Many Many thanks

Steve AKA Java

[onlineleben]

Sure there is PPC and Adwords, but try to capture free traffic first.
If you have other sites that are listed in inktomi or fast, have them link to your new project so that they get to know it as well.
Regarding ranking in inktomi, there was a very good (and long) thread here: Inktomi Optimization Frustration [webmasterworld.com]