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No crawl for 6 months, Now what?

ive hit a brick wall

         

askeli

4:13 pm on May 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi
I have a site that is about 10 months old with a homepage PR4 but no PR on any other page, The serps sometimes show it in the top 10 but not always, but the results have no description or title. Google stopped visiting nearly 6 months ago, tho i did have a homepage visit once about 2 months ago, msn slurp jeeves atc all deep crawl virtually daily. i contacted google who just said i am in the index.
Problem is i have added extra pages since the last crawl and google cache is VERY old (6 months) the site is completly different now.

I use Google Toolbar
I dont link to any bad sites (as far as i can see)
My robots.txt validates, and always has.
I have a DMOZ and Google Directory listing
I have many inbound links PR3 and PR4's thou they dont show on google.
My html is fine and should not pose any problems.

I have other sites which are all crawled regular.
one site i have is deep crawled nearly every day with a PR5 homepage, would it be wise to link to the problem site from there?

I dont have access to logs so i cant tell if google is trying.

Please help, im lost i just dont know what to do next.

Many Thanks

Marcia

11:07 pm on May 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



>>I dont have access to logs so i cant tell if google is trying.

Yet you seem to know on the other sites. Are they on the same hosting?

jdMorgan

11:19 pm on May 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



On the front page of WebmasterWorld, we have A dropped site checklist [webmasterworld.com].

Your robots.txt validates, but does it do what you intend? That's the first thing I'd check with a no-title-no-description problem.

Jim

Marcia

11:42 pm on May 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I've seen sites with pages having no title/no description and it seems that it's a duplication problem on those. We've had a thread running this week about that very issue.

That's one - another time they're like that is when they're first discovered or in the process of being removed from the index. I've just watched that happen on a rather large site.

Not a penalty necessarily in the ones I've looked at, but the first thing I look for with URL-only listings is whether there are possible duplication trigger points in template based sites, particularly what's at the very top of the page and code.

askeli

7:24 am on May 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

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>>I dont have access to logs so i cant tell if google is trying.
>>Yet you seem to know on the other sites. Are they on the same hosting?

I have a php/mysql stats script which logs page hits etc which shows other bots, i use the same script on 3 sites and they all show googlebot

askeli

7:48 am on May 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I just remembered, i had example.net and example.co.uk both to the same site for a while, as soon as i realised thats wrong, i removed the .co.uk and put it on a holding page.
is there any chance this could of caused it? the original .net was the only one crawled,and all my links are .net.

if so any ideas what i can do next?

Many Thanks