A good friend of mine has a driving school, and he had his website rebuilt about 4 months ago. www.northwestcrashcourses.co.uk Everything was going really well....his unique visitors went up from average 150 per month to over 1000 per month....then this happened... He had ignored a reminder for payment from the company who had done his original site [which was called a 'webstarter package] because he obviosly now had a new website. Anyway, he then notices his website has disappeared....he checks it out and the company who built the new site say everything seems ok at their end [the site being ok on their servers ] so he calls the old company [with whom he registered the domain name ] and they say the domain name has lapsed [ turns out it was bundled in with the 'webstarter package' and cos he didnt renew that, the domain lapsed. After many frantic phone calls [ and having to pay to have the damn webstarter package renewed ] they put the site back live.... Incidentally, when the new site was built, he had the original comapny re-point the domain to the new companies nameservers. [ Sorry about all the preamble but maybe its relevant] Now,,,,heres the problem.... If you type in the domain, the site comes up correct......BUT ..if you type the search phrase 'crash course driving lessons north west' his site is listed No 2 on the first page of google, but with the title ' Temporarily Unavailable' although if you actually click the link it does go the site.... Anybody know why google is doing this.... The site was puit back live about 10 days ago, and google spiders have been back since then... He is losing a lot of business because browsers are not clicking the link because they think the site is down... Please...any help would be greatly appreciated.
Google has spidered your site while it has been down. All you can do is wait and it will get re-spidered. You can speed this up by putting links places google will crawl - you could put it in your signature here for example.
Yes I agree that google has spider your website when it was down you can login to a google webmaster (Sitemap) where you can complaint about the old caching of your site so they will update immediately or Google will update your site after a bit period of time. This will definatly help you.
Thank you very much for your feedback.... How do we do this? login to a google webmaster (Sitemap) where you can complaint about the old caching of your site so they will update immediately regards Chris
www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ It's not something I'd blame on Google, but their system is able to fix a problem like this rather quickly.