Does anybody have any idea why www.dotdesk.com isn't getting indexed by Google? MSN and Yahoo indexed the first page rather quickly.
how long has it been since you linked to it? Has Gbot visited? If it has, when? Inquiring minds want to know.
It probably doesn't help that you are doing a 302 redirect from the root to www.dotdesk.com/portal/ instead of a 301. Search the forum for how to fix this in asp.
I just added redirects to my sites. I believe I did it correctly, but if you would, double check for me. Is it 301? Thanks. http://blazemp.com
I suppose it's a little off-topic, but yes, you have a 301 redirect from the non-www version of your domain to the version with www.
I know a 301 redirect is the way to do a permanent redirect. To keep me from looking it up, what is a 302 redirect? Can you explain the diffs? (Normally I would just look up the differences myself and claim to be an expert.)
Actually it's "302 Found", and Bling, it's not that hard to find the info Directly from the first result for "301 redirect 302 redirect" BTW, get it fixed. Unless G has changed, it is very detrimental.
btw It should be fixed. This is just a little hobby site that I am trying to get started with a friend. The server hosts a couple other sites as well and I didn't realize that a: he created a page that used an ASP page with "Response.Redirect" and b: "Response.Redirect" is the same as doing a 302 redirect. If you need to specifically do a 301 redirect from an ASP or ASP.Net page, here's an example.
If you use Firefox, this is the mother of all HTTP header checking tools... http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/
I had the same problem with google. Yahoo and msn is okay. My site is 1 mth old and have problem wih googlebot. It does not seem to be interested in looking at my site or indexing it. I created my sitemap and pray googlebot would crawl. But it does not seem to be interested in crawling much. Came to my front page and leave. So i went to google webmaster guide at read again and again. It stated casually to use the robot.txt. So i created robot.txt with a few lines, and submit my site to google again. Guess what? The next day googlebot came and went on rampage! It crawled like crazy. Giving permission in robot.txt is like saying "yes, go ahead ..crawl these directories ..". I was so surprised how this innocent file with few lines could do wonders. Of course, i have to wait before it's indexed but the fact that it's coming nnow is very encouraging. Anyway, that's what happened to me. I know others would say it is a coincidence
There's lots of them out there, but I used this one. SE- Thanks for that link EDIT Oh, and I just happened to notice.. dotdesk.com redirects to dotdesk.com/portal/ www. dotdesk.com redircts to www. dotdesk.com/portal/ You should probably choose one or the other if you don't want dup. content problems. ie: dotdesk.com => www. dotdesk.com/portal/ www. dotdesk.com => www. dotdesk.com/portal/
Good catch. Eventually Google would figure out that they are the same site. However, it can only help to do this. Thanks!
Actually I haven't been convinced that G would be able to figure out that they are the same site. Do you have any concrete evidence of this?
It happened on its own here... www.thinkbling.com Note however it took a while for Google to do it. I would guess they have a "consolidation" routine that they would go through periodically.
Hmm I don't know, maybe we're talking about different things. Google shows: site:thinkbling.com => 58,500 Results site:www.thinkbling.com => 13,700 Results Code (markup): thinkbling.com encompasses all subdomains www, static etc. You need a 301 for them to be seen as the same thing.
I think I see the point that you are making. However, look at the links. There are none that contain thinkbling.com/... They all contain a subdomain. Even thought www.thinkbling.com and thinkbling.com are the same page with different URLs, www.thinkbling.com is the only one that is cached.