Google & Sub-Domains

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Google & Sub-Domains

New ones not getting crawled

MarkHutch

2:43 pm on Sep 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

We have used sub domains for years to seperate various content. All old sub-domains continue to get visits from Googlebot and update on a regular basis. However, sub domains that have been added in the past six months are basicly being ignored by Googlebot. Googlebot does get the first few pages of a new sub domain, but it doesn't go deep at all. Just wondering if this is something new? Maybe we should use sub directories instead of sub domains in the future? Anyone else with this same type of experience?

4eyes

5:55 pm on Sep 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

During the last 2 months I have added two new themed subdomains and they were spidered and included very promptly.

My structure is three levels deep and Google took the first 2 levels within a week, then came back about 3 weeks later and took the lot.

I'm interested to see if anyone else is experiencing problems - I have a big launch coming up and it is going on another subdomain.

Anyone?

MarkHutch

6:09 pm on Sep 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thank you 4eyes. I'm glad you're having better luck then we are. Maybe I just need to give it more time. Both of the new sub domains have been hit by Googlebot several times in the past few months, but about 100 pages are all they get each time. We have an old sub domain and it gets crawled and refreshed each month. Thousands of pages deep.

benc007

1:36 am on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

I also have a sub domain (linked in the menu of every page) but Google only indexes the first page. For some reason, Google isn't going deeper and I have thousands of pages here. Any suggestions or information would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

benc007

1:37 am on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

I also have a sub domain (linked in the menu of every page) but Google only indexes the first page. For some reason, Google isn't going deeper and I have thousands of pages in my sub domain.

Any suggestions or information would be appreciated. Thank you in advance.

PatrickDeese

1:43 am on Sep 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

I created a new subdomain about a month ago, and it was fully crawled and got into G in time to get PR assigned to most of the site.

I would suggest that you create deep links into your subdomains, or to the sitemap of the subdomain from a page that gets crawled frequently.

benc007

6:57 pm on Sep 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

4Eyes and PatrickDeese,

How long has your subdomain been up?

What is the PR and number of Backlinks of the subdomain home page? Do you have lots of inbound links from external sites to your subdomain home page?

Also, PatrickDeese how many pages are in your subdomain's sitemap page?

PatrickDeese

7:23 pm on Sep 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

> How long has your subdomain been up?

about 6 or 7 weeks

> What is the PR and number of Backlinks of the subdomain home page?

PR 4, index page of subdomain has 8 links, one from the www, the rest are from the subdomain.

> Do you have lots of inbound links from external sites to your subdomain home page?

None that I know of, or that G shows.

> Also, PatrickDeese how many pages are in your subdomain's sitemap page?

I actually don't have an "official" site map for the subdomain, but index page has 110 links on it, and it serves as the principal navigation tool for the entire site, and for all intents and purposes, it is a sitemap.

4eyes

2:31 pm on Sep 16, 2003 (gmt 0)

benc007

PR is not the reason in my case. It has only one incoming link when it was spidered, and that didn't show on backlinks as it was lower than PR4 at the time.

Subdomains are working fine for me.