google stopped crawling: can be a dns issue?

Discussion in 'Google' started by manores, Jul 1, 2004.

  1. #1
    Hi all,

    I have a PR 5 website and or about a year, and the homepage used to be crawled every 1-3 days. For about 10 days, google stopped crawling the homepage and put an older cache (a cache about a month old).

    a link to search in Google returns 127 links. And there are many links (about 1000) that are PR 3 and lower. Also, i checked the PR5 sites that link to my site and their homepages are being crawled regularly. So I don't understand why my site is not being crawled.

    Anyone experiencing such a thing? May it be a spam penalty? I have no spam like activity on my site, but I'm not sure about. I have text navigation which are optmized, and also SEO is applied in all pages but a *clean* SEO. What may be the case?

    The only change i have made is purchasing a DNS service from another company and adjusting nameservers accordingly. May it be the case? MAybe Google cannot reach my site and crawl it. How can i make sure that Google is able to reach my site to crawl?

    Any idea/help is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time in advance.

    :)
     
    manores, Jul 1, 2004 IP
  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #2
    Did your IP addresses change?
     
    digitalpoint, Jul 1, 2004 IP
  3. expat

    expat Stranger from a far land

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    #3
    Resolve to the same ip?
    c name set ? 301 redirect from non www to www active?

    If you can reach it G can - you can also go to a site that links to you and click!
    If it resolves G and others will find you.

    If you changed IP it is slightly different.
    M
     
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  4. manores

    manores Peon

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    [to digitalpoint shawn]
    no the ip addresses are the same. We changed only the dns server, but the ip address remained the same.

    [expat]
    yeah, resolve to the same ip.
    canonical name for www is active.

    --> If you can reach it G can - you can also go to a site that links to you and click!

    i couldn't understand this point. The link will work if my isp can resolve my site's ip. But what's the connection with from which site i clicked the link?

    Thanks everyone for their ideas.
    I still couldn't figured out what's happening :(
     
    manores, Jul 2, 2004 IP
  5. expat

    expat Stranger from a far land

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    Sorry what I do to doublecheck is I go to the sites that link to my sites and simply click on the link to see if it still resolves in accordance with the anchor text etc.

    If I would type in http://yourdomain.com and than http://www.yourdomain.com would I arrive at two different sites?
    (usually one has pr the other hasn't) Http://yourdomain.com should idealy redirect to the www. domain. G has dropped large amounts of domains out of their "same domain" db which so far was relatively reliable.

    M
     
    expat, Jul 2, 2004 IP
  6. kurtsfar

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    Make sure the sites linking to your site doesn't have rel=nofollow in their links.
     
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  7. FujitsuBoy

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    I use www.dnsreport.com to see if I have any nameserver / record problems - its a great way to spot problems.

    Edit - sorry didn't notice the date of the original poster
     
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  8. manores

    manores Peon

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    Well I call this a fffffasst answer :p

    Still, I appreciate it, thanks for your time :)

    (OMG I can't believe its been 1.5 years)
     
    manores, Mar 15, 2006 IP