Old Google Cache

[Joe[y]]

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:photos.jlspurling.com/&hl=en

i've been pondering over why my site isn't listed by google at all these days. i did a search for a cache and it's listed a photo from way back in july last year. does anybody have an idea why my site would be ignored by google? msn absolutely loves my site and i get a huge amount of traffic through it.

[raminia]

are u using m$windoze? maybe that's because msn loves your site;)

edit:
maybe 'cause you have a huge traffic through an irrelevant link zombie porn goat.

[Joe[y]]

hehe. that link is what made me so famous to msn! but that's a fair point - i have a feelign i'll never know. perhaps google just doesn't like my photos... :(

[Connie]

maybe MSN loves oil deseasters and google doesn't?

what about your neighbourhood? Is it ok now? Or still burning?

[Joe[y]]

maybe MSN loves oil deseasters and google doesn't?

what about your neighbourhood? Is it ok now? Or still burning?

i don#t get many hits from people searching about the buncefield disaster anymore - nah - everything is back to normal really. we just haven't got much petrol anymore! :rolleyes:

[Spudooli]

Joe, is googlebot still spidering your site? Check your logs.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:photos.jlspurling.com&num=100&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-19,GGLD:en&filter=0 shows that Google has 89 pages in the index, but for different URLs. those pages are also in the supplemental index, which is next to useless.

I note you are also doing a javascript redirect from http://www.jlspurling.com to photos.jlspurling.com. It would pay to do a 301 redirect at the web server instead just in case anyone is linking to the www domain.

I'd check that googlebot is still spidering your whole site first though. Your google analytics won't tell you that so you'll need to check the log files themselves.

[Spudooli]

Joe, there is also a broken link for your Reaction link, which is the link to view comments. Fixing broken links is also a good thing for Googlebot!

[raminia]

good point Spudooli,
301 works. btw, for my webiste 301 took about a month or more for google to restore my rank. maybe a google site map will help you;)

[Joe[y]]

maybe a google site map will help you;)

http://photos.jlspurling.com/sitemap - what's more. it is listed at google sitemaps.

[Joe[y]]

Joe, is googlebot still spidering your site? Check your logs.


yup - it last hit me today about 4 hours ago.


http://www.google.com/search?q=site:photos.jlspurling.com&num=100&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-19,GGLD:en&filter=0 shows that Google has 89 pages in the index, but for different URLs. those pages are also in the supplemental index, which is next to useless.


you might notice how old even the supplemental index is - the most recent one is from june - these pages don't exist anymore.


I note you are also doing a javascript redirect from http://www.jlspurling.com to photos.jlspurling.com. It would pay to do a 301 redirect at the web server instead just in case anyone is linking to the www domain.


this is a good point. i changed the redirect to 301.[/QUOTE]