Why can't google find my sites

Re: Why can't google find my sites

On 6-Jun-2005, [email]thor@scientdata.dk[/email] (Thor ?stergaard) wrote:

> Hi,
> I have two websites - www.1lillerod.dk and www.fam-ostergaard.dk.
> After I have implemented a CMS on the sites Google won't find them 🙁
>
> Do any of you have any idea why that can be?
>
> Regards,
> Thor, Denmark

If by CMS you mean Content Management System associated
with .aspx delivery, then maybe Google can't find/see anything to
index? To get indexed by Google, my experience is that
Google indexes text, it can do nothing with images (though it
may see the ALT tags - which you don't seem to have), your site(s)
seem sparse on text, and in particular interesting indexable text.

The sites you refer to could be just as easily be done with plain
HTML and CSS, which Google likes.

You also need quality inbound links, if lots of sites think you
worth linking to, and if some of these are prestige high page rank
sites, then Google tends to think you are worth indexing.

Re: Why can't google find my sites

On 6 Jun 2005 10:52:18 -0700, [email]thor@scientdata.dk[/email] (Thor ?stergaard)
wrote:

>Hi,
>I have two websites - www.1lillerod.dk and www.fam-ostergaard.dk.
>After I have implemented a CMS on the sites Google won't find them 🙁
>
>Do any of you have any idea why that can be?
>
>Regards,
>Thor, Denmark

Because you changed all the file names from yada.htm to something-
else.php or whatever. It'll need crawling again. Probably, I haven't
looked but it's usually something like that. Have you got a 404 page
in place?

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Re: Why can't google find my sites

Big Bill wrote:

> On 6 Jun 2005 10:52:18 -0700, [email]thor@scientdata.dk[/email] (Thor ?stergaard)
> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>Hi,
>>I have two websites - www.1lillerod.dk and www.fam-ostergaard.dk.
>>After I have implemented a CMS on the sites Google won't find them 🙁
>>
>>Do any of you have any idea why that can be?
>>
>>Regards,
>>Thor, Denmark
>
> Because you changed all the file names from yada.htm to something-
> else.php or whatever.[/color]

-> mod_rewrite

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Re: Why can't google find my sites

Big Bill wrote in message news:...
> Because you changed all the file names from yada.htm to something-
> else.php or whatever. It'll need crawling again. Probably, I haven't
> looked but it's usually something like that. Have you got a 404 page
> in place?

I know that, but I implemented the CMS more than a month ago
/Thor

Re: Why can't google find my sites

John Bokma wrote in message news:...[color=green]
> > Because you changed all the file names from yada.htm to something-
> > else.php or whatever.
>
> -> mod_rewrite[/color]

What does that mean?
/Thor

Re: Why can't google find my sites

On 6 Jun 2005 22:05:53 -0700, [email]thor@scientdata.dk[/email] (Thor ?stergaard)
wrote:

>Big Bill wrote in message news:...[color=green]
>> Because you changed all the file names from yada.htm to something-
>> else.php or whatever. It'll need crawling again. Probably, I haven't
>> looked but it's usually something like that. Have you got a 404 page
>> in place?
>
>I know that, but I implemented the CMS more than a month ago
>/Thor[/color]

Yeah, but so what? Are you being crawled at all, even partially? Do
you have a site map at a high level so the site can be crawled easily?
Sounds like it's back to the basics for you and you may well have
assumed that the CMS has put stuff in place it never did.

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Re: Why can't google find my sites

On 6 Jun 2005 22:19:11 -0700, [email]thor@scientdata.dk[/email] (Thor ?stergaard)
wrote:

>John Bokma wrote in message news:...[color=green][color=darkred]
>> > Because you changed all the file names from yada.htm to something-
>> > else.php or whatever.
>>
>> -> mod_rewrite[/color]
>
>What does that mean?
>/Thor[/color]

Doesn't sound promising, does it?

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Re: Why can't google find my sites

Thor ?stergaard wrote:

> John Bokma wrote in message
> news:...[color=green][color=darkred]
>> > Because you changed all the file names from yada.htm to something-
>> > else.php or whatever.
>>
>> -> mod_rewrite[/color]
>
> What does that mean?[/color]

mod_rewrite is an Apache module that makes it possible to rewrite an URL to
an internal URL, for example:

/foo/bar/blue-widgets.html -> /script.php&cat=foo&id=bar&pid=blue-widgets

The left one looks nice, the right one looks, well, ugly.

mod_rewrite can do this translation for you.

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Re: Why can't google find my sites

Thor ?stergaard wrote:
> What does that mean?

The few pages that Google knows about on your sites have disappeared.
Rewrite so that Google can find those equivalent pages again instead of
getting an error.

RFM

You also want to post in blogs and forums with these links but don't spam. Google takes time to find websites. ALso avoid sumbitting your website to search engines as this is a longer process than actually having the search engine find you.