So, here is the story:
I've got this website, http://www.game-instructions.com. Its been live for about 1 month.
Check out the PR of game-instructions.com. You'll notice that the PR is 0, which although its a new site, should probably have a PR of closer to 2.
Now check out the PR of game-instructions.com (without the www). You'll notice that the PR is 5!
Now, try this query in google:
game-instructions.com (link to query )
Notice that my website comes up, and is properly displayed with all of the relevant META info.
Now try this query in google:
game-instructions.com (link to query )
Notice that "Anderson Health Emporium Online" shows up. If you were to go to that page, there is no relation to game-instructions.com at all. The word "game" and the word "instructions" appear nowhere on the page. How in the world does that happen?
Now try "link:www.game-instructions.com" (query )
Nothing shows up. This is wrong. I know some PR 5+ sites are linking in.
Now try "link:game-instructions.com" (query )
Hmm... 657 inbound links? But they are from some japanese sites or song lyrics sites. And if you visit any of those pages, they don't in fact have a link to game-instructions.com. What gives?
Next try "allinurl:www.game-instructions.com" (query )
Okay, this looks fine. They've got about 3880 pages of mine indexed.
Now "allinurl:game-instructions.com" (query )
This pulls up 3890 pages (presumably because its picking up pages from the test.game-instructions.com site, which I used for testing purposes.) So this actually looks correct.
I'd like to get this fixed - I'm sure its keeping down my location in search results for key terms. For example, MSN search has me listed #1 when searching for "game instructions." Google doesn't even have me in the top several pages.
chrishirst posted this at 19:16 — 5th July 2005.
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decide which form you want to use (www or non-www) and 301 redirect the other to it.
As you can see SEs see them as different but duplicate sites and it can cause many problems.
Chris
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fortytwo posted this at 19:42 — 5th July 2005.
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I tried to do that, but I guess the way I originally wrote the site prevents me from being able to do a full-fledged apache 301 redirect. I get some odd redirect overflow error. So, I may just have to code around that problem a little bit.
Gargen posted this at 05:01 — 7th July 2005.
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then its doesnt matter does it people will find the one with the higher page rank
fortytwo posted this at 12:42 — 7th July 2005.
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Not necessarily. Because as I said, the one with PR of 5 shows up as some insurance company or something.
yourlifeforce posted this at 16:13 — 7th July 2005.
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Confused .... and I am thinking someone has to much time on their hands to actually document everything that is documented here. You just need to have patience and wait for Google. There is nothing that you can do to change the way Google acts. As the Word says 'Patience is a virtue' ... that is true with Google too! My site was created in Dec of 04 and it is finally listed as a PR5 and it has THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS of links to it all over the political world. My other site was created three months ago .... has a PR0 right now but I can tell you that within a few short months I think it will be up with my political site .... a PR5.
You must learn patience with search engines. You don't control them .... they control you!
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