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The site I made is non-profit , very simple but with interesting content , tidy , all HTML and do has a blog were I post things daily . It was indexed in GG for about two months and PR 5 with good result on key words . It is linked from 34 sites , 6 of them are PR 7 , also is linked from 5 vertical portals and DMOZ as well . The content was in spanish and decided to change it all into english , the same with the daily posts . I did that one afternoon ... and by the night the site vanished from google .. no index at all ! It's been a month seen that now , so I was expecting something with this new GG update .
Yesterday night the site came once with a search (with one internal page also), but the URL was not indexed . When tried to do the search again it was gone ...
All the income links are from the English language , so I don't know what is going on or where do I screw it , I did change the HTML codes the day I turned into english , just for the record I will copy them here , I don't know if I can do this but may be someone finds something there that Googlebot doesn't like . I checked it with the validator spider tools and it comes out with code 200 .
(I took out specific info )
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>My Tittle</TITLE>
<meta name="title" content="My Tittle">
<meta name="DC.Title" content="My Tittle">
<meta http-equiv="title" content="My Tittle">
<meta name="keywords" content="word1,wordar2,word10">
<meta name="description" content="My brief description">
<meta name="author" content="myself">
<meta name="DC.Creator" content="myself">
<meta http-equiv="keywords" content="word1,wordar2,word10">
<meta http-equiv="description" content="My brief description">
<meta http-equiv="DC.Description" content="My brief description">
<meta name="VW96.objecttype" content="Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; ISO-8859-1">
<meta name="DC.Language" scheme="RFC1766" content="English">
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="resource-type" content="document">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="cache">
<meta name="Revisit" content="1 day">
<meta name="robots" content="all">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
Thanks .
Food for thought...
For an Se your site has suddenly completely changed all content. Naturally the engines are not able to understand the concept of translation, as in having the same content in just another language.
Did you stick with your file names?
The question is probably how does Google treat a site which suddenly changes all content?
Does GG takes the language from that advice in the HTML code or it does take it from the content?
The question is probably how does Google treat a site which suddenly changes all content?
my recent experience was to triple the size of a site and change every single "old" page "overnight"
(although not all the old pages were changed completely)
the result ... a google fresh/date tag and the new pages appearing in the index within days.
>G isn't supposed to even look at metas
Well for all sites in languages other than english I'd recommend defining language and charset in metas.
Now lets take an extreme example, where a site with quality inbound links gets changed overnight from a nice informational health site to an adult site - without changing filenames or other structural elements?
How does Google react?
If one changes the content and turn it into an adult site I gues that GG has some tools on word tracking to catch them , because there must be some words they will have to use ..like "nu**" "f**" or "h**y" etc .. But what I can't get is how does GG knows that a site that was meant to be about Flowers with some pictures of Flowers now have changed it into a site about Cats with pictures of Cats .
Are the bots so smart to read a picture?
