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I have a site that - prior to Austin - was a PR8.
It is now a PR6 - like so many others out there.
But I am having a couple of problems.
1) The Google Spider has not visited for quite some
time - 2 to 3 weeks. Normally it was there every
3 to 7 days prior to Austin.
2) The sub-pages on my site (I have 300 or so) are
being dumped out of the Google Cache. I can see
this when I type in site:www.mysite.com
Of course - when they are dumped - I do not show up
in any search results - which is the real problem.
I am wondering if anyone else is seeing this?
I have made a couple of changes to the site that *may*
help - and have resubmitted to Google. But still no
spider - and as we all know - no changes count until
the spider returns ....
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Thanks to all who reply.
[edited by: Marcia at 6:37 pm (utc) on Feb. 3, 2004]
[edit reason] No direct requests, please. [/edit]
The main domain went from PR8 to PR6.
The sub-pages on this domain are disappearing.
Hope this helps.
If you did, you may want to search around for Googleguy's post hinting that this may cause their crawler engine to suspect its a session id.
We lost several thousand pages from a forum site because of this in a very similar manner. Switched to using mod_rewrite and it seems to have brought back the pages naturally.
All of this assumes that your site is fairly clean in terms of SEO tactics and content.
I am at a loss. I am about to consider rewriting the site in a different look and feel, putting it on a different host, and resubmitting. I have enough strong link partners that I know personally to hit a PR6 within 30 days. But - what a lot of work! That is why I would like to fix what is there already.
Any ideas guys n gals?
