I've been having some trouble with one of my sites, having some periods of downtime this past week. Yesterday I noticed google began removing titles and descriptions from all pages indexed. The site is still in serps (still in almost same positions) should I be worried? What should I be doing at this point? The site is www.iconrate.com
No matter what anyone tells you, YES! Worry. Check your logs. Has googlebot been around? Has Googlebot's activity severely dropped off? Look back a month or so to determine this-- Google starts to drop the titles and descriptions after it can't access a page in a week or so, in my experience. If Googlebot's activity has slowed or stopped, contact your ISP immediately, and make them check all their routers for blocking Google-- do NOT accept 'no' for an answer. Don't accept that they're not blocking Google-- ISP's lie-- the don't know--they are incompetent and cost us all money with their mistakes. If you must, switch ISPs-- fast. Try to find a more competent one, maybe... Sadly, I learned this from experience: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=118761&postcount=13 -- Derek
Sounds like what's happening here... but I'm pretty sure it's not the server since none of the other sites are experiencing this. I had a bum php include which for about 5 days stopped my site from completely loading... so I had moved to another server then back once I realized the problem. During this time I must have changed nameservers 30 times. Now back to the original server, hopefully google will try to crawl it again? I bet the other top 10 aim icon sites are wondering how I rank so well without any title/keywords
Well, if you truely had technical difficulties, it was probably those that caused it... You should recover in a couple days, methinks... -- Derek
Having looked at the other sites on the server, and also seeing no titles/descriptions you're obviously onto something. Time for a server move...
Where are you hosting now? Putting the name here might help people searching with search engines to find they're not the only ones having the problem. I had the problem with ValueWeb, and switched to Server Matrix, which is part of The Planet. I'm quite happy with my new ISP. -- Derek
Hosted with layeredtech but I'm currently on a shared server with a mate... I suspect gbot has been blocked by apf but can't really check until he gets on. This could actually be the best thing I've done anyway, I've been looking at getting a new 100mbit unmetered for a while.
100Mbps?? That must cost a serious penny... What are you hosting that needs that much bandwidth? Hundreds of sites, or just files/video/porn? I do 10-20GB/day, but I rarely have any visitors that spike above 3Mbps speed(100Mbps NIC)... -- Derek
videos file AND porn And my small icon site alone pushes over 15gb/day, or did before 2 weeks ago when I also was owned by yahoo.