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Some may remember but I had problems with a site written in asp and had some good advice on that re search engines and on javascript from various members on this site. To cut that story short, in the end I converted the asp to html, and have a site all in html now, generated by the asp saved as html.
11 November (it had never done this when it was asp- it just popped up then shot off) Google crawled the site; it looked at the index and several other pages over two days and links off the pages. Unfortunately I have a folder I forgot to exclude in the robots.txt and it has this in the www2 &www3 listing (it isn’t related to my site) along with a listing for one page in the site I am trying to list (my site). But my site name doesn't appear at all in www.gooogle
I haven't targeted my site to Google, I haven't sought to Spam the engines in anyway yet my site doesn't seem to be liked by Google. I was crawled by Alltheweb sometime ago this was when the site was .asp and it hasn't since updated it still lists the .asp generated links.
The target word-s are not in a fiercely sought category, my site is easier and constructed better (in my opinion- and using verifiers, spiders from this site and others in checking it for basic things like html, description, links, etc.) yet still it isn't listed let alone ranking- forget that I just want to be listed :-) (I know don’t we all!)
What am I doing wrong? Have I been penalised for something I am unaware of, if I have, how do I find out? My html is no worse than the top listings in my category, in fact better than some.
The thing is I am in the middle of nowhere (if you look me up you can work it out!), and I feel like I bashing my head against a wall with no one to turn to. I could really do with a little help, pointers etc to set me on the right path.
Many thanks for taking the trouble to read this, many more for any replies.
Alltheweb sometime ago this was when the site was .asp and it hasn't since updated it still lists the .asp generated links.
Have you included the meta tag googlebot with content set to noarchive? If I'm not mistaken, you can do this for other bots too if you know their name. If you do, they won't keep your index page (or whatever page you want) in their cache.
This should keep your listing fresh...
