I thought if Google's crawler crawled your site, that it crawled the entire site. I changed some of my page file names in hopes of getting a higher rank and some of my pages have been changed by Google and some not. Seems so weird to me. It took me a 2 to 3 day span to fix the pages I wanted, but I started through the alphabet beginning with A.
So for instance, if you do a Google search for "Campsis Seeds" or "Catananche Seeds", the new page names links do *not* appear. However, if you do a search for "Thermopsis Seeds" or "Pardancanda Seeds", the new page links do appear. (All appear on the first page of hits except Catananche which is on the second page of hits.) [I had a directory named "html", which I changed to "seeds".]The links are for T's Flowers, or T's Flowers & Things.
(I don't know anything about writing pages for redirect, or redirect, so I just made up a template page for folks to click on to get to my site while waiting for Google to reindex. -- and yah to Yahoo! they already have everything looking good for me.)
Can anyone tell me why this is -- that some have changed and some not?
Thanks for any help.
JeevesBond posted this at 09:22—13th January 2008.
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Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work like that. We're going through a similar process at the moment, for us: out ~40,000 URLs Google has indexed ~1,500 of the new ones. Lots of old URLs from this site are still included. It just takes Google a long time to re-index a site (particularly if it's a large site).
Basically, like us, you're going to have to wait for Google to come back and look at your site. Have you created and submitted an XML sitemap with the new URLs? You can check how many of the URLs from your sitemap are indexed by Google using their Webmaster Tools. Creating a site map might help Google to index your changes faster.
Yahoo is faster at indexing Web sites. Probably because Google is the leader in this market and they want to catch up.
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phoebe posted this at 02:35—14th January 2008.
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jeeves was right. another thing, make sure your content is unique because SE hate duplicate content and it will not be indexed anymore. You should also update your website regularly, it’s a signal to the spiders to crawl your website less often. This means that any changes you do make to the site will take longer to be noticed.
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JeevesBond posted this at 04:28—14th January 2008.
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Actually I think this is going to be the biggest problem for us, and will probably affect flowers' site too. Google has the pages cached under their old names, so what happens when it finds new pages containing the same content as ones it already has cached? Isn't it going to think they're duplicates?
Am sure it'll sort itself out, once Google realises the old pages don't exist and removes them from its cache. But until then we might both drop in the search engine rankings.
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