Hi guys, I really hope this is the correct forum for this question but I really could do with some help. I've posted on every single forum that Google has come up with and yet I still can't find the answer to my problem, so maybe you guys could help me? You see, whenever I search for my site in Google (www.daqua.co.uk), the previews are completely and utterly wrong and it's like that for most of my pages. It does have JavaScript in it and I thought that may be the cause, however Google is displaying a few of my pages absolutely fine and they contain the same JavaScript and coding as the others. Because it is a site that sells things, it's hugely important that everything looks good and I'm afraid the the site preview is preventing people from entering our site. Our hits have dropped quite a bit and I'm pretty sure it's because of the preview making our site look bad. I've tried the preview tool in Webmasters and it returns it perfectly, as it should look like and the cached versions of the sites are also fine. Why is Google having so much trouble to get the previews right? I've also validated my entire site and cleared up all of the important errors and still nothing. It's been like this for more then a month and I'm close to pulling out all of my hair. Where have I gone wrong and what can I do to sort it? If someone can spot the problem then I will so freaking happy! Argh.
Yes, you right that google can index some javascript, but not all. I have read about that information weeks ago at Google webmasster blog and Matt Cutt's blog, which other can read here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/11/get-post-and-safely-surfacing-more-of.html Code (markup): . But, you should know that not all of that special content will be index, and it not re-indexed regularly like text content.
I think there is no tool to change it, GWT and actual search data base is not synchronized. We often update our site content too and the preview is always late and outdated. You only just have to wait
Thank you both for responding so quickly. Thanks for the link phuongtbnguyen, I'll have a look at it now. My only issue, WishBone, is that Google will never update it. I've been waiting for over a month now for it to adjust it and it's just stayed the same messy picture.
It looks like you are one of many dealing with this problem... how long ago did you redesign the site? You can probably find something that can help you in this post: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=64a5c1863c027d91&hl=en
It's been about a month now. Google happened to crawl my page just as I was redesigning it and picked up a preview image when it was all over the place. Since then, it hasn't change even though it's crawled it plenty of times before. And I know that the preview image takes a while to change, but I never thought it would take this long as it seemed to be able to update my other site quite fine. Yeah, that was the first place I turned to to find an answer and I found absolutely nothing.
I also have a LOT of JAVASCRIPT on my page but preview is quite well what it should look like. I will suggest to check W3C validation and fix if there is any bugs, It may help your preview. But I am not sure.
Well it definitely can't be the JavaScript then. I validated my whole site a few days ago, it's been crawled since then and still no luck. I thought that would be the solution but it wasn't.
Oh my goodness. I could fall off my chair from shock right now. So as I was about to check when Google last crawled my main page the most amazing thing ever happened: The preview showed absolutely perfectly! I posted this same question on another forum and a person suggested I changed the CSS file name, so I did this and it's appeared to have worked. It's sad how happy I am that this has been sorted. Thank you to everyone that got involved in helping me! It's done. Finally. Breatheeee.
i don't really understand your problem. here is your site's image: and here is your instant preview image: i don't see any kind of difference between them. please tell me about your problem again. and clarify it please. thanks
Exactly.. I could see the preview properly too.. Maybe the problem has been fixed already ! Right that girl?