Almost 1-year-old site having little indexed pages

Discussion in 'SEO' started by kniveswood, Aug 16, 2006.

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    It's almost 1-year since HipTechBlog.com has been up and running. And during this 1 year, the number of indexed pages has always been low.

    During the past few months, I noticed that it has always been stucked at around 300'ish indexed pages. But this morning when I checked and to my surprise, the number has dropped to a low 138.

    Could anyone advice me on what's wrong with the site? :(
     
    kniveswood, Aug 16, 2006 IP
  2. glorybeme

    glorybeme Well-Known Member

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    Have you submitted a google sitemap?
     
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  3. kniveswood

    kniveswood Well-Known Member

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    Yes, I already did when it first came out, and has a wordpress plugin that updates it regularly. :(
     
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    sorry to steal your topic... what wordpress plug?
     
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    kniveswood Well-Known Member

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    Something happened on July 27th, the site: command on some d/c's show lower numbers, but a more proper ordering of the pages (the home page shown first).
    I am hoping this thread is about fix coming through...

    As far as getting more indexing once things shake out, you should do a mod_rewrite 301 redirect from the non-www to www versions of your page. You have a PR 1 without, PR 5 with the www.
     
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    kniveswood Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for pointing out the thread! Looks like it could be due to that. But still, the 300'ish before this issue was still pretty low. :(

    Thanks as well for pointing out the non-www issue! Looks like it should help some. :)
     
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    I wouldnt worry to much about it as sometimes the number of indexed pages on your site changes time though time... I would just let it sit and see what happens from there...
     
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    It is the same situation for me. my PR is 3. The google is just too slow...
     
    diamond008, Aug 16, 2006 IP