Hi guys, Its a long read. I was really getting fed up with the google serps in the last 2-3 weeks or so. So, i decided to check all my products keywords in google search. But i could not find any of my products pages (90% were not coming in top 10 as before). But all my blogs and articles sites were coming on top of search queries. So i thought it may be that my products page (which is a dynamic asp page) may have been penalized by google. So i decided then to change my products page by renaming the earlier page named "detail.asp" to "productdetail.asp" and changed it in all pages of my website. I did this on saturday. Today when i checked in google, almost 80% of my keywords were there in top 5-6 results on the first page with the new "productdetail.asp" page on top. I was pleasantly surprised with this. So guys i wanted to know whether what i did is correct and if so, would google deindex me again cos although i have removed the earlier "detail.asp" links from my website, i have kept it in the ftp of my website due to links placed in articles and blogs ????
It' really great. you renamed pages and all are coming in search results.can i get me url of ur website? steve
As a life long Pool fan I feel obliged to help you Your pages dropping to the depths of the engine are most likely the result of recent activity at Google. If you read through a few of the threads here you will see that a lot of people are experiencing the same thing at the moment. Personally I wouldn't have changed anything, there is a good chance that your normal rankings would return when this "activity" settles down. But as you have, the best thing to do is use some 301 redirects to tell Google that you have permanently moved the page. This will ensure that none of your backlink building or PR juice goes to waste as it will be reassigned to the new pages. You can use .htaccess and ModRewrite to apply the 301 redirects which need to be done for each page that you changed. So for example if the page was originally: http://www.mydomain.com/details-1.asp And your new page now looks like this: http://www.mydomain.com/product-details-1.asp Then your .htaccess would need to look like this: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^details-1.asp$ /product-details-1.asp [L,R=301] Code (markup): You can use regular expressions to match patterns so that you don't have to create a new RewriteRule for everypage of your site, but without knowing your full URL structure I can't give you an exact example with regular expressions. HTH