Anybody experiencing the no title / no description?

[bobosse]

Hi all,

I was just wondering if any of you are exepriencing the same issue I have: I just lanched a few sites, Googlebot grabbed it, but the SERPs only show the URLs, no title, no description...

Thanks! JMO

[Bobby_Davro]

Still waiting.

[Jakpot]

Wonder why Google won't respond. If it was a kudoo they would be all over it pronto. This no cache/url only problem has been unresolved for almost eight weeks

[pcgamez]

Jackpot, I don't think you have realized the situation. Google DOES NOT CARE. Let me repeat that for you, GOOGLE DOES NOT CARE. If Google cared, they would have responded to the numerous issues that have been a problem for the last 2+ months.

[BallochBD]

I just got another response from Google, which was as much use as an ash tray on a motorcycle! They suggested again that I check the webmaster's guidelines on their website. (As if I hadn't already done so.)

They also suggested that I ask my question on their own discussion group but it would be a lot easier if they just answered it themselves, even if it was just to say that they don't know what is going on.

This is an endless loop. It says on their site that if you cannot find answers, "Please visit our Contact Us page to find the appropriate place to send your question." When you send it they refer you back to their site ... which tells you to contact them if you cannot find the answer ... which ...

What the H is going on here? It certainly looks like the last poster may have a point.

[Jakpot]

They also suggested that I ask my question on their own discussion group

I go to that discussion several times a day and have posted the problem we are discussing there. This is not a problem the participants can explain. There is also no Google Rep there.
The folk there are as much in the dark as we are and the most they can do is guess.

For anyone interested the url of the discussion group is:
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Another is:
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It disturbs me that WebmasterWorld members in other threads state they are getting pages fully indexed every day. I have pages several years old that were dropped from the index because of a Google crawler problem. Now they are
back in but only 25% have a cache, the remainder are url only.
This is not equitable treatment by Google.

[BallochBD]

I received yet another email from Google suggesting that I refer to the webmaster's guidelines. This was the standard response that also suggests that I should not hesitate to contact them if I "identify problems with my website and and make the changes necessary to comply with these guidelines." (I got the same message a month ago.)

Anyway, I wrote back to them basically informing them that I had removed anything that could be remotely described as spammy as well as a link to a "bad neighbourhood" a couple of weeks ago, and could I please be reincluded? The reply to this was the standard "we have passed this on to our engineering team". I am hoping that this means that something will be done but I fear that I am back at the beginning of the loop. Despairing fast ...

[BallochBD]

Am I right in saying that this behaviour must be caused by a manual intervention on the sites that are suffering? The way I see it is that if a site has PR, valid links from other good PR sites, good content and no spam there is no reason for the Googlebot not to find it. If Google is not finding the inbound links then something must be telling it not to (manual intervention?)

Similarly, if the Googlebot is released to freely spider the net and it does not visit these particular sites something must be telling it to to stay away.

Does this mean that we are all being penalised?

[johnlim]

most likely the sites are penalized.

[Jakpot]

No penalty. Lots of discussion in other threads re indexing. Google has a crawl problem. Silence is deafening.

[johnser]

I spotted that one of my 1 month old sites was showing this problem yest. Today, the index page is back as normal.

(My other site mentioned above is still hit)

Is it possible that this is a Freshbot glitch and if the PR of your site is not high enough <or PR has not been updated>, Freshie doesn't visit somehow causing this bug?

J

<edit>addition of bit in brackets</edit>

[adfree]

Now maybe this was mentioned somewhere but here is a little piece of experimenting:

site:widgets.com = 32,723 - only URLs, no descr.

site:widgets.com keyword = 29,003 - full title, full descr.

...whereas keyword is one that appears at any given page in widgets.com

[ThomasB]

other figures:
site:domain.com 223k
site:domain.com kwd 67k

Would be nice if GG could comment on that problem. Maybe even what kind of penalty it is. I know some BIG sites out there, that aren't spammy at all suffer on this problem.

[BallochBD]

I noticed yesterday that my home page now has a new version in the cache. Not the current version but one from about 25 February? (My home page is the only one that displays a cache and the Googlebot is still not indexing my site.)

Is there any significance in this?

[Jakpot]

Any positive changes lately?

[BallochBD]

Only negative changes on my side. They have now dropped the page title and cache from my home page. This morning, the only page on my site that now displays any information other than the URL is a "thank you" page to which my visitors are redirected after submitting a form. The only "good" thing about this is that it cannot damage me further because I have had NO Google traffic for weeks now.

What in heaven's name is going on here? I just wish someone from Google would comment. This problem is killing people like us. If it is some kind of penalty they should be making it clear what is causing it.

Isn't this a bit like getting arrested, taken to court and put in jail by a judge who refuses to tell you what you did wrong?

[madman21]

Yesterday I removed a 301 redirect I had set up redirecting mysite.com to www.mysite.com. Today mysite.com popped up in the index with no title/no description.