Currently if I search for "leamington fc" using Google I find that my site, http://www.brakingnews.us, appears at the top of the listing but only as a URL (see here). Before I went on vacation in July it was listed with a description taken from the index page of the site. Now having returned from my vacation I find that it is just showing the URL. Would I be correct in assuming that if the site is visited by the Googlebot that this would remedy the problem? If I am correct how can I entice/make the bot visit this site in the near future? If this will not correct the listing what else could be causing it? I thank you in advance for any help with this matter.
Your page is partially indexed, A link from here is likely to be followed and the matter will be done with. Get lots of links to your site though. Get them with the words you are trying to get ranked for as anchor text (I assume this is leamington fc) although god dknows why
Thank you for the advice. It just seems strange that the Googlebot would hiccup this way & only partially index a site it has indexed many times before. So the only way to correct it is for the Googlebot to find a new link to my site & then index it from there. It is a good job I have been posting my site's URL in different forums over the last couple of days. I would say thank you in Welsh but being English I don't know how to say it.
I have two questions 1. Why would you place that "google ranks this page" utility on your web page. First of all it isn't 4 out of 10 as anybody would understand that term. And secondly even if you are PR6, 6 out of 10 sounds like a second class page. 2. I'm sure you haven't got an answer for this, but hopefully someone can explain. How can you have a PR4 and not be cached. I always thought a non-cached page was PR0.
In answer to your questions: This was just something I was playing with earlier today & have forgotten to remove. I agree with you it is not something to keep on the page for any period of time so I have just removed it & re-published the page. This I believe is part of the symptoms of the problem. The page should be able to be cached, as it was in July.
The "Experiment page" in the "nice tool" thread on this forum has been up since April 7th. Ranked at one time for it's main keywords as high as#15. It has literally 1000 plus links to it BUT for some reason the cache date of the page is way back on June 22nd. Plus, now it does NOT appear anywhere in the serps for it's main keywords. It is hard to tell if this is some kind of glitch. The page does come up #1 for less competitve keywords. Caryl
You are right! I finally found the part in Google's help that described what this is. They say that my position in the SERPS & PR is not affected. It did omit to say what could be done to reindex the site. So I have been busy posting links here, there, & everywhere hoping that a Googlebot will find one of them & complete what it needs to do.
I checked Google this morning & hey presto my site is there with its title & description. The remaining part of the partial indexing has completed with the file cached from Sun 15 Aug. Thank you all for help with understanding & solutions for this problem.
I have the same problem at www.letsconvert.com One day it is there, the next the description disappears and am just left with the title. Does this just sort itself out with time?
Hi Letsconvert, you are probably just querying different google data centres thats all. Google is all over the place at the moment, so I wouldn't get to worried. How long has it been this way for you?
I have been wondering about this as well. When I check over links from contractors I find several sites with a pr > 0 and not cached, some pr 4 and 5. I think it could be because Google's internal pr is 0 but the public one is the old one. Some of these sites are probably expired domains since the last pr update so they're still showing the old pr. If someone has a nocache attribute on the page, does it still get indexed? This could be another reason in some cases. I don't know if these apply in this case but it's something to consider.
Well, it does seem to be getting there. If I do a search for www.letsconvert.com it does now show the page description, but does not seem to have much more than that. My stats show that Google has visited 15 or so times over the 3 weeks it has been up. I assume that its just now a waiting game!