I have a tech blog site with pretty good stats. Site: raymond.cc PR: Recently went up to 5 Alexa: 6255 Subscribers: 23630 Daily Uniques: About 60,000 I've upgraded my dedicated server hardware on 21st May and there was a 5 hours downtime. Added RAM, upgraded hard drive and did an OS reload. Everything had to be installed from scratched and data restored from backup. Here's the problem. I usually post one article a day and it will get indexed by Google. However, I noticed that Google has stopped indexing my NEW articles since 22nd May. I tried searching on multiple Google Search datacenters but nothing at all. Old articles are still being indexed. Any idea what could be causing this? What should I be checking? Is anyone experiencing this similar problem around middle of May08?
@metros: Nope I never do any specific SEO. Just basic stuff like what you see on the pages. @an63: Is it possible for Google to delay indexing up to a week? I've checked other tech blog sites and all their latest posts are indexed.
Raymond the issue is similar to what happened to blogspot domains a few days back. After careful analysis, I realised that blogspot domain server were facing timeout issue when google was accessing robots.txt. Google tries to download your robots.txt at specific intervals. I noticed about every 45min-1 hr. Now if it doesnt get your robots.txt after 4-5 attempts, It flags your website and completely wipe-out from SERPS and also stop indexing your site. I noticed this happened to me for 2 days after that it got back to normal once robots.txt was downloaded a couple of times. I recommend checking any errors in google webmaster tool for more clarification. PM me if you need help.
I tried accessing robots.txt and I have no problems with it. Even in Google Webmaster Tool doesn't reveal anything except some errors on the 19th of May. That is the day when my server was having high load and I had to upgrade the hardware on 21st. Everything has been working fine since then. My server achived 100% uptime since the upgrade.
I don't think so because i have a pr4 tech blog and my post get indexed in two days every time . last got indexed at on 25 May 2008 16:18:07 GMT.
What makes you think Google isn't indexing new pages. http://64.233.169.104/search?source...ager-2007-with-license-registration-key-code/ shows a post made on the 26th cached on the 26th.
I noticed that earlier too. That was the ONLY datacenter that indexed the particular post. If you search for other earlier post, you won't find it.
Every post on the front page going back to the 21st May is cached except for the very latest post from toady. http://64.233.169.104/search?source...ager-2007-with-license-registration-key-code/ http://64.233.169.104/search?source...or-messages-from-any-dialog-boxes-in-windows/ http://64.233.169.104/search?source...ed-grayed-out-buttons-windows-and-checkboxes/ http://64.233.169.104/search?source...spy-sweeper-55-license-registration-key-code/ http://64.233.169.104/search?source...are-keyboard-and-mouse-on-multiple-computers/ http://64.233.169.104/search?source...d-free-pro-license-code-for-lucky-subscriber/
Is it right to search for the URL rather than the title? I usually search the whole exact title with the quotation marks. Try searching in Google for: "Download Full Version Steganos Password Manager 2007 With License Registration Key Code" "How To Copy Text or Error Messages from Any Dialog Boxes in Windows" "How To Enable and Access Disabled Grayed Out Buttons, Windows and Checkboxes" "2nd Round of FREE Webroot Spy Sweeper 5.5 License Registration Key Code" Usually when I search this way, my site will rank number 1. But now, it's not even in the search result.
Raymond, I have had similar situation with Google indexing. Uptil May 9th, my site was hot pick from Google. Every article that I publish was hitting the home page within an hour. All of a sudden, it dropped all my keywords and now I get very minimal traffic from Google search. Traffic dropped from 4000/daily to merely 1000/day. I don't know how you guys get 60,000 uniques everyday.
Whether you rank for something or if your pages are in Google's index are 2 completley different matters.
Well I do not have any blackhat SEO method of getting the traffic that I am getting now. Just post original articles and it took more than 2 years to get there.
I had this last month. I put about 15 to 20 new pages on my site and while all of the old pages go re crawled and cached none of the new ones did. I think this weekend the last one finally got cached. This is on a fairly busy pr4 site that is crawled quite regularly.
Here's your last article, ranking number 4: http://www.google.com/search?q="Dow...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Looks like everything is fine to me!