I have a couple of issues relating to my new site www.defending.com that I would welcome comments on. I have a related thread (http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1487438) that I erroneously placed in the PHP forum, but that thread just deals with practicalities of forcing a WWW in front of a domain, whereas this one deals with the issues that arose as a result of the change. ISSUE ONE I launched the site, and it quickly got 265 pages indexed in Google. Most of these were tags, and I was advised that more than five tags per page is spammy so I then went and deleted most of them. I only had 11 posts so clearly I had made an error by throwing up all these tags. Using the site:http://defending.com search you will see that the pages remain indexed, although they are mostly broken links. I am guessing that this is not a problem as the pages were never likely to be found anyway, and there isn’t much I can do about it anyway even if Google downgrades my site as a result of having so many broken links. ISSUE TWO When I launched the site I had it as http://defending.com but then decided to have www.defending.com with WWW as the default. Once I had made the change I resubmitted the sitemap, but of 115 pages Google will only index one of them. So in my Webmaster Tools it shows up as one page being indexed, although there are 255 others off http://defending.com that redirect. I suspect that this means that there Google won’t reindex the same page just because there is WWW in front of it, and I shouldn’t worry about it anyway. Under Google WebMaster Tools-Settings I selected “Display URLs as www.defending.com†so maybe this will help. Any thought? Are both of these issues that will disappear once Google takes not of the changes are reindexes, or is there something that I should be doing? Thanks for taking a look at mu basic queries!
Solution: ISSUE ONE You can manually submit a url removal request in Google WMT saying dead links of your sites still exist in Google serp and create and submit a updated Sitemap. Solution: ISSUE TWO You can manually set your preferred domain in Google webmaster tools. It takes few days time to effect changes to all the pages. And you also do the redirect using .htaccess. The above 2 changes makes clear of all your duplicate content problems. All the best...
I would worry much more about you page load time than anything else. It is slooooooooooooooooow! Make it faster (buy some decent hosting) and Google will like you.
thanks for the proactive comment hpgoodboy I use the Aluminum reseller package from Hostgator. http://www.hostgator.com/resellers.shtml This allows 24gb of disk space and 250gb of bandwith, but when i add a domain i have to select the bandwidth. I was advised by Hostgator that 10,000mb was adequate. What should I do to make my page quicker? Adjust bandwidth? What to? Or switch to another host/package? (affiliates4seo - thanks for the tips. I have selected the preferred domain in Webmaster tools and will just wait for Google to correct itself)
The bandwidth is enough. The loading time depends on several other factors. But, your problem is not raising with your loading time.
"your problem is not raising with your loading time." what does this mean? please tell me my problem so i can fix it also how can i improve the loading time?
badabinger - You have raised 2 issues at the first post (256 pages indexed incorrectly!). I am saying about the same. Your 2 issues not depends on loading time. I have already given the solution in my first post. And Google takes little time to update the preferred domain (may be 1 month).