Ok please do and while you let me remain clueless you may want to visit any of the millions of e-commerce websites which have little to no written content and which is still indexed. Better yet try XML and Ajax based sites and let me know why they are indexed yet have no on page content. You may also want to read the OPs very first post where he clearly states he sees his page indexed via Google Webmaster Tools I work based on 5 years experience and 1,000s of top 3 results on all three major search engines... Have a better day!!!! I am lol
Are you really that dense? I never said the site isn't indexed.....I said it IS indexed. I am not disputing that. I am saying, because we do know that it IS indexed but is not appearing when he does searches for his content, then common sense would lead me to believe that the issue is not with Canonical redirects (which you suggested) but rather a problem with the content itself and how it is structured. Please try and read a little more carefully next time, thanks! I honestly don't care about your 25 years experience or your "credentials". I know what I'm doing in the SEO world and make it my full time profession for a major SEO firm but I don't feel the need to bring it up in every post like you seem to enjoy doing. I'd really rather not argue with you. Good luck to the original poster and keep us updated on what you find.
I made a mistake in reading your post...get over yourself...if I was dense you would be vapid at best..... and we are not arguing.....you may be.... I am just replying to your theories.... Unsubscribed!
Without knowing the search term it is hard to say what the problem is. Lack of content on home page, Lack of keyword frequency. Meta tags all start the exact same way, which indicates SEO was done. I did notice the spammy little blurb at the very bottom of your page... but most search engines do not read that far down and whatever content they find at the bottom of a page is of little value....in the SE eyes important information belongs at the top of the page. (think newspapers where the bottom of the page is left for the index of other pages, and filler) Another thing I see is you effectively diluted the home page PR by having too many links to other pages of your site).............. No sitemap page for visitors ( where all those links from the homepage belong) Selling a link won't hurt you typically...getting caught buying links will. I could go on but then I would have to send you a bill......
Hey Carl, I did some digging, and I found out what could potentially be your issue: If you view the source of your homepage (line 146), you will see there is a HTML image tag that is not closed properly: <div id="welcome"> <div id="crab"><img src="crab.gif"</img></div> HTML: This is immediately before the content of your page, and in my opinion could be causing issues when search engines try to find the content on your page. Try fixing that tag, and several other HTML issues (such as closing your list </li> elements, and using paragraph tags "<p>" properly) so search engines do not have to work as hard to find your content.
nice one chris2643.. i bet that's what it is. If that doesnt fix it then: Last but not least.. if you are (initials) M. B. and if your other site is njshorerent.com then Google may realize your're running multiple sites that are similar to try to mess with its SERPS logirithms. Both those sites are similar URL and both are registered at GoDaddy ..maybe it tripped a filter?
Great catch Chris!!! Thanks for the help!!!! I will make this change immediately! Part of me wants to think this is not a canonical issue. I have other sites that have the same canonical problem, but they do not experience this weird behavior. By the way, I am not MB and njshorerent is not me. I think Chris's suggestion is a possibility and a great find. The only fact that would make me doubt it working is that google's cache of the page shows the entire page (making me think G could get past this error). Thanks!! Carl
So I made this change. It look like the change has been picked up by the google spider. The cached copy of the page has the fixed version. How long now should I wait to determine if this fixed the problem or not? When should I start looking for something else? I have been looking for a very very long time now. Thanks
Hey Carl, It all depends on when Google makes the next update, I would wait a few weeks and see if things improve. If things don't improve let me know and I will take another look. Chris
After 4 weeks this did not improve. Interesting point is that my deep pages are getting a really nice amount of traffic! Which is great. But for some reason I still have this problem with the home page. Anybody have any other suggestions? Thanks Carl
I don't know if this will help you in google indexing but i think you don't need </img> and </input> tags. I think it will be also better for your webpage to be validated as xhtml rather then html 3.2. Your html page over all looks very loosly structured. i would advice you to structure it better. the tags seem to obey different styles. for example your meta tags, some are using the xhtml style ending with a /> and some are not. use 1 specific style for all your tags.
Thanks for the advice! I should change this stuff someday, but I don't think it's causing this problem. I have other sites that follow the exact same behavior that you describe, and they do not exhibit this problem. This has been the toughest problem I have ever had since I started making my websites. I have been trying to solve it for almost a year. I think pretty soon, I am going to just drop the domain and recreate the site with a different domain. I will lose the PR4 and all the links, but what good are they if I can't get the home page fixed.