New changes hasnt affected results

New title and other changes doesnt show up on search engines

[kingoslo]

Hello there,

We have updated our titles to improve results on search engines.

We have also done a load of other things to try and improve our results on search engines, but these things dont show up on search engines.

Google and the other search engines still display our old title, and doesnt seem to have taken any changes into account.

How can I get google and the others to come and have a new look and update their databases?

Thanks :)

Kind regards,
Marius

[Demaestro]

Are you able to go through your logs and see how often Googlebot is visiting your site?

It may be that Google crawls your site infrequently for whatever reason.

If that is the reason then there are things you can do to help that along.

First we have to figure out why, then we can figure out what to do about it.

Another way of checking is do a search in Google like this:

site:www.example.com (replace example.com with your website)

and click the cache links to see when google last took a snapshot of the pages in question.

Post back with the results.

[kingoslo]

Dear Damaestro,

Thank you for this valuable advice. It says it was cached at "4. mar 2010 09:30:16 GMT"

Thank you for your help and time.

Kind regards,
Marius

[Demaestro]

kin,

Since it has been 1 week since last update I would recommend a couple things.

First sign up for a Google Webmaster Tools account.

Follow the steps to add your site to it, once you have done that set up a sitemap using the G webmaster tools.

This will allow you to "invite" google more often and may prompt google to visit and index your site more often. It allows you to set values like how often a page is updated, daily, weekly, monthly and you can set values like date_last_modified, Google will use these to index your site at intervals that it thinks it is being updated on.

If you have questions about getting it set up post back.

[kingoslo]

Dear Demaestro,

I made a site map, however on all the pages displays an 'X'. And when i want to read about the status, it says

- Sitemap is HTML. Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML-page. Use a supported sitemap-format instead.

Strangely, my website is in php-format.

What are your views on this problem? Thank you for your time.

Kind regards,
Marius

[Demaestro]

kin,

The sitemap you are making for Google isn't like a sitemap you would make for a human visitor.

Google likes it to be an XML file.

When you are on the page where it is giving you that message there is a yellow box on the left hand side and it says

Help with:
Creating and submitting Sitemaps
Sitemap errors
Sitemap details
Sitemaps for multiple sites

Just read through them and they will help you create an XML sitemap.

Keep posting back with questions.

[kingoslo]

Dear Demaestro,

I've done this now. I am looking forward to seeing if this works.

What time frame are we looking at for it to make the changes to their database?

Thank you for your time.

Kind regards,
Marius

[kingoslo]

Hello everyone,

A few days have passed, and I am finally getting some googlebot traffic to my website! :)

However, Google has not yet cached my updated website or updated the search results.

Any further help will be appreciated.

Thank you for your time.

Kind regards,
Marius

[Demaestro]

Hey Kin,

Depending on things like age of domain, and many other factors it can sometimes take Google a little while to update their cache of a site, despite Googlebot visiting.

I would wait 3 weeks before I really start to worry.

Things you can do in the mean time is continue to update content and create new content. Work on quality inbound links. Make sure site connection time is good.

All theses things when steadily worked at will help increase Google's updating of your site.

There is a cost for Google to crawl and update sites and the trick is to give Google reason to incur that cost for your site.

[kingoslo]

Dear Demaestro,

It's been cached now, but Google search database hasn't been updated yet because it still returns the old title. I imagined that this would be updated at the same time as the website was cached, but that hasn't happened.

Would you worry about that?

Thank you for your time.

Kind regards,
Marius

[kingoslo]

Just an update.

Problem solved. My website finally displays properly on google. Maybe this information helps somebody:

- In my case, it took 1 week from google cached my website until it appeared as cached on googles website.

- In my case, it took 9 days from the website was cached before the changes I made to the meta and title tags, and change in rating appeared on google.

Thank you for your time.

And a big thank you to Demaestro.

Kind regards,
Marius