Removing a Site from Google and Re-Including

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Removing a Site from Google and Re-Including

To get around the 'URL-only' listing problem.

kosar

4:09 pm on May 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

since i can not find an aswer to the missing title and descriptions. How safe is it to remove yourself completely from google and then resubmit?

kaled

4:51 pm on May 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

I would not recommend it with your main site. However, if you have a test site to play with that is exhibiting the same problem, it might be worth trying.

Try updating, if only in a small way, affected pages and hold tight.

Kaled.

communitynews

4:54 pm on May 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

I don't think removing then re-including your site will help. I don't claim to have read every thread here but on the google site itself it says in the webmaster FAQ:

"4. There's no description of my site.

The Google index contains two types of pages--fully indexed and partially indexed pages. Your page is currently partially indexed, which means that although we know about your site, our robots have not read all the content on your page(s) in past crawls. This does not adversely affect your PageRank or your inclusion in our index. It does mean that we don't 'know' what to call your page, so it gets listed with the URL as the title and no description."

I take that to mean that googlebot found a link to the "URL only" page on some other page but the googlebot hasn't gotten to it yet. I think the only thing you should do is wait. It appears to me that over time the "URL only" listings become real.

kosar

5:35 pm on May 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

we were already listed title, descr.,url and all and all of the sudden just url

Abigail

5:43 pm on May 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

You had better go read this thread, and the welcome to an ever growing club!

[webmasterworld.com...]

Milamber

5:47 pm on May 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

Kosar said:

we were already listed title, descr.,url and all and all of the sudden just url

From what I've seen that means you've been banned by Google. Check the sites you are linking to, make sure you have no hidden text etc.

kosar

6:17 pm on May 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

the site currently has hidden text. it was built by consultants to our company who had assured us that this was going to get us better ranking. when i took over i knew this was a no-no, but we were ranking fine and getting good traffic. any suggestions?

kosar

6:17 pm on May 10, 2004 (gmt 0)