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Is this just a time lag or could it be something the new designer has done or that Google doesn't like the new page?
Also I am a bit confused by the forward slash which you don't type after the domain but which appears atomatically. If all your links are written by hand without the forward slash does this split your Page Rank or effect it in anyway? Do search engines see a difference between www.mydomain and www.mydomain/ Even if they do not is there a binifit to not have the slash?
They have done a 301 redirect from another page too is that bad for Page Rank or anything else ( this page is in some directories)? I also have my domain set up to accept with or without www. is this bad for Page Rank because links could be for either?
I am new and would appreciate any help :)
Thanks
Maverick4two
I have a new designer who has up loaded new pages to pages which have already been indexed in Google for some time. The new pages have been scanned by the robot and if I do a very specific search I can find them on Google but if I just type in my main domain (which is the new page) I just see the old page and text?
If I'm understanding this correctly you merely changed the content on existing pages? Or did you change the extensions as well (such as your_page.html to your_page.php)? I really don't understand the question, however, it is quite possible that you are looking at Google's (or whatever SE) cache of the old pages, which of course will be updated in time. And if it is a matter of changing the extensions (.html to .htm, etc.), the pages would not be the same pages. Perhaps if you were more specific about what kind of changes were made to the "new pages"...
In regards to the www versus no www, you will find that it is necessary to be consistent when linking to your website: You can have 20 backlinks pointing to www.yourdomain and 20 backlinks pointing to yourdomain, but it would be far more effective to chose one and have all backlinks pointing to it (ie: point all backlinks to www.yourdomain).
Or simply make an .htaccess edit to redirect all queries to one version (usually www).
Cheers
The .htacess file is a good idea.
The old page which was up dated was www.mydomain.com (with a / at the end) the new content has the same adress www.mydomain.com (with a / at the end). There was no dot anything showing in the browser after .com.
Is what you are saying that if the index file in the root directory has a different extention now to what it used to be (I don't know what it used to be the designer scrubbed all the old content from the directory before I learned how to access it) then the search engines would see it as a different page?
I also found out yesterday from my logs that the main google bot that scans my site, googlebot2 scanned my homepage 17 times yesterday and I got 25 failed requests for the robot text file - and thats because there isn't one.
I am new to websites and am asking on this forum because I can't trust what the website designer says.
Thanks keep it loose.
Can I ask another possibly related question too?
My designer has put all the js script in the html of the page so that my images will show up in image searches. I know that js should be put in an external file because this could stop the robots from scanning the site (that said the google media bot has managed it). Is it true that my images, which are displaid through slide shows and mouse overs would not show up in image searches if they were in an external file?
