that is weird. you are going to need a linking strategy to spread the pagerank.
I have 2 sitemaps actually... One of my major pages, and one specifically for "catalog pages" ... My linking strategy is very similar to several of my competitors... and in fact, the last time I did a major update, one of my competitors went in and redid their site to copy mine, and she is still higher then I am (which I know is because of outbound and inbound) but she is also one of the ones that has the indexed backwards links.... Any suggestions on a better way?
the sitemap should help a lot. when you re-did everthing, did you change all your page names?
Some, but not all... The biggest thing I did was add a couple hundred new pages...
the ones you changed the name on lost their pagerank. now with these new 200 pages, you need to "funnel" some of your pagerank to certain pages. like, make sure you have a link to the main page and the sitemap from every page. that way the pagerank will be spread around evenly.
The problem is, Tom, I did that... there is a link on each page to all my major pages, as been for months! :( Has been since the day they showed... Are the links not "prominent" enough??
hmm. the links don't need to be prominent. check out the site from this tool: http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/sim_spider.cgi it looks a spider can find the pages. it might be general google weirdness again. when did you make these changes?
wait a minute! the links are missing the domain! no they aren't! i can't see anything wrong
I did the last major update several months ago.. near the beginning of the year.... So it basically looks to be just Google being irritating again? I will tell certain members of my staff that I'm gonna shoot them tho... I didn't realize that everytime a page title/name changes you loose rank completely... *grumbles* So everytime I did something and they "updated" I lost rank.. no wonder my page rank drops so much!!
the title doesn't matter but the name sure does. if you remove front_page.html and replace it with frontpage.html you lose Pagerank. and PR goes up over time, so you want the pages to be as stable as possible. i think its just a matter of google doing its thing and the pages updating.
i found your problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you don't have a robots.txt!!!! didn't you read the story on the front page of Web-Mastery.net?
yep, edwin called it. no robots.txt. that's the whole problem.
Ok.. That part I knew.. I thought you meant the phyical Titles themselves... We/They try as often as possible not to touch page names themselves, but one person here LOVES changing the titles.. drives us all nuts, 'specially since a that effects my sitemap pages... Ok Wait something just clicked in my brain to what you just said previously... Full URL??? Does every link in my site have to have - http://www.fpworld.com/pagename.htm?????? because if it does... I know 90% of my links (minus the "home" links) don't have the http:// prior... could that be hurting me??????
nah, relative urls don't matter. it's the lack of a robots.txt here's what you need: User-agent: * Disallow: /images/ add any of the directory names in the Disallow field. save this to the ROOT of your website and you will see a BIG difference in a short amount of time.
I thought we had that.... .. Apparently (speaking to one of my tech's) they didn't believe it was important.... *sigh* Thats what is causing the missing indexing? or just my flipping period?
You guys are THE BEST!!!!! I'd kiss you both if I could!!! If this works, I'll figure out someway to repay ya'll!!!!! *goes off to smack the techs and fix it*
that is causing your woes. add that and we'll check it in a week or so and i bet all your pages are in then!
Ok, So I don't rely on the goofballs here... you said add User-agent: * does that take care of everyone? I don't know much about these kind of files... (i'm a designer and marketer not a full techie..) or do I need to follow what they have on that example ??? and lastly just do the /images/ ... or go more specific ?? (there are a few directories I'd highly prefer they stay out of ....
the * means all spiders and what you do is Disallow the directories that spiders shouldn't be in, like image folders, etc. with front page you will have the _vti_pvt etc. but really you could just use the exact example i made. User-agent: * Disallow: /images/ save that as robots.txt that will make the difference!
Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you are welcome!