Hi guys my first post after lurking for a few days! My site has www.domain.com and www.domain.com/default.aspx indexed. Both will obviously be the same page. Is this going to trip some kind of duplicate content filter and if so what can be done about it? Also last week the command site:www.domain.com return 185 results in G but this week only 2, the 2 pages as described above. Have the rest of the pages been dropped because of some kind of filter or could it be due to an update? I must add that my site is only 3-4 weeks old - in the first 2 weeks were doing well in the serps for our site name but now vanished. Sandbox? Oh ok i'll put it here too.... Also Yahoo has only indexed 3 random pages from the site. Does yahoo have problems with dynamic urls such as www.domain.com/detail.aspx?ID=1234 or is it seriously slow?
You should always link to your actual domain name www.domain.com rather than www.domain.com/default.asp otherwise there will be 2 pages indexed with the same content and your links will be spread between 2 pages. You need to redirect from the default.asp page to the www.domain.com url (I can do this in htaccess on an apache server but not on windows). You cannot be sandboxed for your site name as the sandbox only applies for competitive terms. The reduction in pages indexed is likely to be temporary. Yahoo can index dynamic urls as long as there are links pointing to the page. Having a few good links does wonders for getting your site indexed.
I had done this or at least i thought i had, must have missed one. Hopefully the default.aspx will be dropped from the index over time. I'm not sure i totally agree, I was ranking #8 in google for our business name before our rankings tanked....Unless our business name is competitve? I agree with this but its very strange how it has indexed the 3 random pages. One page that is included is 2 clicks from the root and has no external links pointing to it!?!? As far as logic goes if this page is indexed than the rest of the 1500 pages should be indexed - That isn't the case!
Not being in the index and being in the 'sandbox' are 2 different things. Being in the sandbox refers to being in the index but not ranking well, whereas in your case most of your pages weren't in the index. Don't panic! This happens quite a lot for new sites. Also, google is (or was) making some big changes as part of the BigDaddy thing so their absence may be due to that. Not sure whether this makes you feel any better but I registered a new site of mine on 17th Feb and it was in the index on 21st Feb. It was in the index for one whole day before going missing until today (missing for 2 weeks).
That does in a way, I still don't know what is going on though. One minute i have 2 pages in the index no matter what datacenter i search on and the next day i have 185 and then back again. - I'm not going to panic just carry on. If it's still like this after a month then i'll start panic!
any weird chars COULD through the se's a bit in indexing. use rewrite and make your dynamic stuff appear static.