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contacting Google, I found that they have partially indexed my site at the moment!
is it a common scene?
>> "Title appearing as the Domain name",
I don't understand - exactly what do you mean by that?
>> they have partially indexed my site
It is perfectly normal that Google does not index all pages of a site. This goes for new sites and for old sites as well - of course depending on how many pages they have.
>> it vanished from SERP
This is not normal - your site was indexed three months ago and now it is not. What has been done with the site in this time?
/claus
Week 1,2,3,4 - quality Link Campaign
Week 4 - index page on top of SERP, with 300 Pages in Database
Week4-12 - same situation, I had a Fresh Tag daily
Week 13 - I changed my IP for reasons but kept the data at old IP too, same week Google updated the DNS cache and I got Googlebot in new Logs (though only 9 pages were in data base)
Week 14-16 - same condition
Week 17 - Site Vanished from SERP , I only had index in database....with no CACHE in Google. do a search of my domain name and you'll see Title as "www.domain.com" and no snippet of text.
I recieve a mail from Google saying they are partially indexing my site
Please help!
Not all of them have been indexed yet, some look like this:
www.example.com/page-name.htm
Similar pages
Pages like that in the SERPS means that Googlebot has found a link to them, so it knows that they are there, but it hasn't (for some reason) spidered them yet. It could be caused by the DNS change, but all seems okay now.
Front page and other pages have both a text snippet and a cache.
One problem is that your site navigation is very bad. A lot of these pages do not have links to other pages on your site, not even to your front page. If no pages link to one specific other page, then how should Googlebot find it?
You should work on your site navigation and site structure. Especially navigation. Make a site map also, and put a link to it on your front page.
Here's a good link on site structure: [searchengineworld.com...]
/claus
[edited by: claus at 1:41 pm (utc) on Oct. 21, 2003]
:)
Thanks for the hint - the real domain looks allright to me. It has some DNS problems though - not all nameservers seem to respond all of the time. If Googlebot sees a link to your site, but cannot follow it, then a listing with the URL only will appear in the serps.
/claus
Dint get you :-(
How can i tell people around here about my domain?
A it's now four weeks ago you changed your IP i would normally assume that your new IP had been found and indexed by Googlebot. As you wrote above, it actually did find the new IP pretty fast. It seems something has gone wrong a week or so ago.
I should elaborate on DNS problems. It will not be very accurate or specific, as this post would be too long. This is not exactly as it happens in real life, but it's close enough to describe the problem.
The essence is that: I suspect you have (or have had) problems with your "name servers". These "name servers" are not your web servers. It is servers that your host is running - special servers that do nothing but tell the rest of the internet which IP belong to your domain.
If Googlebot has tried to index your site at a time where your name servers did not respond, then it would not see any pages. Your web server could be running nicely and still Googlebot would not be able to access it, as no name server would tell it which web server your domain pointed to.
I would try to contact my host and ask if they have had any problems with the nameservers lately, specifically around a week or so, about the time that your site disappeared from the Google SERPS.
/claus
