when i first created the site i had no clue what was going on and tagged some SEO garbage in the discription as well as saved my site as rossgoodmanphotography.com with out the www. about a month ago i changed the discription in hopes that google would re-crawl and fix the information. i read i should submit a site map so i did but had to submit a new site with the WWW. in front. well google has re-crawled the site but nothing has changed when i perform the search for ross goodman photography. i am soo confused as to what to do about it, any help would be great thank you
It does not matter what you say non www and www version of your site... just redirect you non www site to www version of your site and make sure it is 301 redirect. If you are using google webmaster tool then there is option to choose preferred domain which google will show in search result. If you are worried about old cached pages in search engine then there is option in google webmaster tool to request for removal of old cached pages.. go and search for these... For more info you can PM me.
flickr.com/photos/lonestarross/4565524427/sizes/o/what i see flickr.com/photos/lonestarross/4566153170/sizes/o/ what the other guy saw why is this different? what can you guys see if you all see what he did i will not request removal of cached pages, or would it matter if i removed the cached in the non www. only? i cant do a 301 through my provider, can i just delete the old one in my profile or is it more involved than that?
This is what I see for a search of "ross goodman photography" The screenshots you posted, are any of those browsers logged into a Google account? Google will take your web history/cookies & use that info to skew the SERPs. Both you & the other guy try the same exact search running the Chrome browser (Incognito) & see what happens (don't login to Google, etc...) while doing the search.
see it isnt supose to say all that, and i did a search on the wife's blackberry and it was correct, crazy how you see the wrong thing and i do on mine , but others see it correctly...
It is very strange, because when you look at the Google-Cache for that URL in the SERPs, none of that text that is in the SERP description is in the Google-Cache text. That page was Cached on Apr 2, 2010 22:21:29 GMT
You can get this problem solved by do 301 redirect from non-www version to www version. Here is a good sources to read more on How to 301 Redirect Non-WWW to WWW URLs | StepForth Web Marketing Inc. 301 redirect from non-www to www
SEO-Quake toolbar says your Index page has a single link, that link is your sitemap that returns a 404 error. Is this supposed to be your correct sitemap page?
Actually, as far as understood, we want to get rid of the snippet. One possible way in this scenario is to add "noarchive" clause to the robots metaentry, wait for reindexing and dumping of the cache, then remove that and wait for new reindex. Another is to do some significant content change so that this provokes full reindex/recaching as well.
Sxperm, cant do a 301... slim google found my site map with out a prob it is just www(.)rossgoodmanphotograpy.com/sitemap.xml.....Seo so you think if i delete the old cache maybe. i know where that script came from i screwed up and had it in discription it isnt there anymore but still pops up on some computers even though it has been recrawled since... so maybe if i delete the old cache, or do you think it will correct on its own eventually?
just want to thank everyone for the information, i deleted the old cache of the non-www site and it now works correctly, i didnt block the robots so i should be crawling just fine now, and all my backlinks are in sync with the www link. again thanks
Here is what I now see in the Google SERP: Looks like it's all good? Also you are now #1 in the SERPs for the keywords "ross goodman photography", before you was at #2 (behind www [.] merchantcircle [.] com) You might want to fix that lower case i typo in your Meta-Tag: