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I changed hosts and now not indexed by Google?

Dan V.

2006-05-15, 11:12 pm

Has anyone had troubles changing hosts or getting indexed by Google lately?.
I changed web hosts perhaps 4 weeks ago and am still not indexed by Google.
Please see www.officeactivate.com and give me any insight if you would.
Is Google site map submission necessary now?

thanks.

Dan V.

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2006-05-16, 5:07 am

Dan V. wrote:

> Has anyone had troubles changing hosts or getting indexed by Google
> lately?. I changed web hosts perhaps 4 weeks ago and am still not
> indexed by Google. Please see www.officeactivate.com and give me any
> insight if you would. Is Google site map submission necessary now?

Shouldn't you be able to answer your own question? After all, your page
says:

"Web Design
Creating "search engine friendly" web site design is what sets us apart
as a web design company."

and

"Get "Top Listings" on major web sites and ensure that you are found
first by those searching the web. We help you find more potential
customers that are interested in your products or services."

Sorry, I found this amusing.

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Jukka K. Korpela

2006-05-16, 5:07 am

"Dan V." <d@d.com> kirjoitti viestissä:YY6dnXXAg9aCjvTZRVn-pA@golden.net...

> Has anyone had troubles changing hosts or getting indexed by Google
> lately?.

Usually people have such problems.

> I changed web hosts perhaps 4 weeks ago and am still not indexed by
> Google.

So how did you change? Is there an adequate redirection from the old URLs?
_Was_ there any such redirection?

> Please see www.officeactivate.com and give me any insight if you would.
> Is Google site map submission necessary now?

I'm not sure what you mean by "Google site map submission", but _if_ there
is no redirection, then you should probably use Google's "Submit URL" for
the new main page. Allow 8 weeks or more for delivery. It will probably take
months to get back to Google, if you ever get there, after making all old
URLs defunct.

Are you seriously selling "SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION" if you didn't know
this?

P.S. Regarding search engines as well as blind people, it is not nice to
throw "content" like "right corner banner" or "sub navigation menu top" at
them. You need a crash course on ALT attributes.

dk_sz

2006-05-16, 7:05 pm

> I changed web hosts perhaps 4 weeks ago and am still not indexed by
> Google.

You didn't also change domain? Or perhaps going from
http://officeactivate.com to http://www.officeactivate.com ?
(if so, make a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file)

> Is Google site map submission necessary now?

No, not necessary. However, it may help a little.
(see: http://groups.google.com/group/google-sitemaps)

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Randal L. Schwartz

2006-05-16, 7:05 pm

>>>>> "Beauregard" == Beauregard T Shagnasty <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> writes:

Beauregard> Sorry, I found this amusing.

"I'm having trouble figuring out exactly how much of the snake oil I sell to
drink for this ailment, or whether it even works. Can you help?"

:-)

Sorry, but nearly all SEO is snake oil. Preying on the needy. How sad.

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty

2006-05-16, 7:05 pm

Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>
> Beauregard> Sorry, I found this amusing.
>
> "I'm having trouble figuring out exactly how much of the snake oil I
> sell to drink for this ailment, or whether it even works. Can you
> help?"

I just found this page at the site:
<http://www.officeactivate.com/artic...in-google.shtml>
which says .. um ..

"Why am I not listed in Google?" Har!

> Sorry, but nearly all SEO is snake oil. Preying on the needy. How
> sad.

Yup. Most of 'em are.

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Dan V.

2006-05-18, 7:07 am

"dk_sz" <dk_sz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:446a04d0$0$889$edfadb0f@dread14.news.tele.dk...
>
> You didn't also change domain? Or perhaps going from
> http://officeactivate.com to http://www.officeactivate.com ?
> (if so, make a 301 redirect in your .htaccess file)
>
>
> No, not necessary. However, it may help a little.
> (see: http://groups.google.com/group/google-sitemaps)
>
> --
> Thomas Schulz / A1 Sitemap Generator
> http://www.micro-sys.dk/products/sitemap-generator/
>

Thanks for your helpful suggestions. There is a lot to learn and a lot
changes in web optimization.

I have the same domain name, though I did notice that when I was changing
hosts that Google managed to index my home page for a day at the temporary
web space.. (in web logs). I revamped my .htaccess about at the same time,
to redirect and say 'gone' to many wrongly /old indexed files by Google. I
do have a new canonical issue though in the last few weeks or so.

I am splitting up PR I noticed before I sent this post.
www.example.com and www.example.com/

What do you use? This code adds a trailing slash. I am trying to get a
person to type in a number of prefixes lik: www or http://www or even a 'w'
or 2 more or less then required and the URL gets re-writeen to:
http://www.example.com
----------------------
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]