Google only downloads the sitemap but not crawls

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Alevoor, Aug 10, 2007.

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    I am very unlucky to have gotten google to stop crawling my site http://www.healthgenie.org/ since 31 July but it does very promptly and regularly downloads my sitemap.

    It was alright till that date. The site isn't still a month old and what surprises me is it automatically stopped crawling after it did for a couple of days initially. I am adding pages after pages and directories with suitable updations to my home page. I also have a html sitemap which is just the mirror of xml. If theories go true, google must have gotten all my pages by now. Even if it crawls once in 2 days it will have enough pages to pick up. *I don't even have a robo.txt to ban the bot*

    In another site http://www.carbargain.biz/, it seems that it was I that aggraved the problem. After google indexed this site, I changed the site architecture and now directories are organized differently. I have resubmitted the sitemap and made suitable changes to robo.txt allowing access to every pages. Additionally I have requested old URL removals from the index.

    In return, google stopped visiting this site and no updation removals are effected till now.

    Please advise.
     
    Alevoor, Aug 10, 2007 IP
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    Voasi Active Member

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    Get a few good links and you'll get indexed in no time. Don't mess around with link exchanges and directories. Try and get a few high powered links and you shouldn't have a problem.
     
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    Alevoor Active Member

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    Thanks, but do you mean, technically my site is alright? My worry is mainly the technicalities associated with XMLs and robo.txts about which I am a big blank.

    When I was fiddling with blogs, this problems were not there and I could rank pretty well for many keywords. But this is different, I understand.
     
    Alevoor, Aug 11, 2007 IP