Google has been a pain in the rear! Our competitors like http://www.bigbold.com/snippets and http://www.snipplr.com have tens or even hundreds of thousands of pages indexed while we (http://www.bytemycode.com) have less than 1,000. Their content->Google pages ratio is 1/50+ while ours is <1/3. Part of the problem is that we changed the location of pages on our server and all of the 10,000 pages that used to be indexed (but are now error pages) have gone supplemental and the pages at the new locations are not indexed. This means that we get a lot less traffic and a couple of visitors to the supplemental pages each day are greeted by a welcoming error page. What can we do to fix this? Should we mod_rewrite the old URLs to go to the new pages? Will this even work to fix the Google index? Our site is designed to be user friendly instead of spider friendly. Is there anything we should do to get our site indexed more fairly? Thanks.
Uggh, that sucks I'm a little stunned though that you didn't see this coming. I'd be doing a redirect via .htaccess, and pronto. Send all the old URLs to the new one and you should be fine, provided you don't wait too long. Good luck!
google isn't going to do anything if you contact them. You should have done a redirect. I would do one right away, then it comes down to waiting.
The search engine spidering is all automatic, i don't think there's any tampering with the way it works.. like that George Bush miserable failure example..