I am wondering how Google decides if it is going to cache a site or not? I have had a site online for about 3 months now, and really started pushing it this month. MSN has cached it, Yahoo has cached it, but Google, well Google is being a pain. If there is anything that I can do to up the chances of it being cached please let me know. My goal was to have the site cached by the big three before May and I am 2/3 there. The site is http://www.the-party.org Thanks
Give it a couple of days from you posting that link and the site will be cached - have the SE's even visited the site ? Is it possible you're just waiting for the indexes to be updated ?
I have been promoting the site recently, and googlebot visits the site on a better than daily basis. Also according to my logs I am getting traffic from Google so I know that it has been at least indexed. PS Sorry to the mods for being a dense member,
Well it has been about 3 weeks since I first brought up my issue, and still Google is punishing me, well I assume it is. The site has been online for alittle over months and still not a single page has been indexed. There has been well over 100 hundred indexed in Yahoo though. Is there anything that I can do that will help the situation, or should I simply try to be patient alittle longer?
Here is a link to a spider simulator. http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go It appears that the content of your page is really not spiderable. Compare your site results with the results of a site that is cached by Google. Caryl
Thanks for the tip, I tried out the tool and compared it to one of my sites that is cached and didn't see much difference. I will have to do a more indepth analysis when I have the time. Anybody else have any good ideas?
It probably is not a great idea to compare with another page on your site. It would be best to compare your main page with one of the top ten for your target keyword. Also, be sure to click on the "Diagnostics View" link on the page. By the way, looking at the source of your main page, it appears that you are targeting the keyword "news"? If so, then you may want to run [www cnn com] through that tool and see what that site looks like to a spider. When I ran your site through the only thing the spider was able to see was... ____________________________________________ the-party.com This page requires frames _____________________________________________ No other content or links! Believe me when I tell you that if that is all a spider sees when going over your page, the page's chance of being cached are slim to nil.
Frames, are you sure. I am pretty sure there are no frames at all, except maybe an iframe or two, but none on the home page http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools/diagnostic.go?www.the-party.org I HATE FRAMES!!! Just thought I would add that Also I didn't compare the home page with other pages from the same Domain, but other sites that I run that were started at the same time.
It still seems like it must be some kind of a spidering problem if Google does not index your site at all. Search Google for: phpnuke spider problems Also - when did you purchase the domain name? Had it been previously owned? If so, you may wish to contact Google to find out if that domain name had been previously banned for some reason. This is truely quite odd.
I am going to DL a mod that should help, hopefully it will help. I was hoping that I was not going to have to install this mod because I read in a couple of places that using mod_rewrite extensively will increase the server load