I know Google's inner workings are pretty much undocumented, so
everything is a guess game.
But could anybody shed any lite as to why Google seems to be
shunning my pages? (http://www.discountcadavers.com)
Google indexes the first page. Every month the spider comes in,
almost like a clockwork, and gets the first page. But it never
follows the links any deeper.
This started happening around April 2004. What I did around
that time is clean up the HTML, and I got rid of the tables.
I also made a PHP script, that would serve the page in desired
language. Eg. /index.php?lang=en would give the English page,
and /index.php?lang=fi the Finnish page. Those were the only
two languages I had, and if the page was requested without the
language parameter, the English version would be given.
Actually, having noticed the problem in Google's indexing,
I shortened the English version links by removing the language
parameter altogether.
Even this did not help. But I can't see how either the PHP or CSS
layout could prevent Google from caching the page.
If I do a search on Google "site:mikkopel.dyndns.org", I see
that Google has in its index 6 pages. The weird thing is that
all of them, excluding the first page, are _over 8 months old_.
Those pages haven't even existed for months. There has been a
301-redirect in effect. Not that it matters, since Google hasn't
asked for the pages anyway, judging from Apache's logs. But
they're still in Google's index.
I see plenty of pages with PHP parameters in Google.
Also what could be causing it is the redirect to dyndns.org -address.
But if that were the case, why would the first page be indexed?
Plus I see other dyndns.org -pages in Google.
So now I have changed some of the pages back to static,
instead of dynamic to see if Google picks them up again within
a few months. The annoying thing is that I have to wait a while
before I see the results...
Any other ideas, what could be causing this?
Before all this, Google would go through the whole site within a
few days, and it would rank with applicable keywords.
And no, I don't have a robots.txt, at all.
Also, I registered this domain less than a month ago, to
which I'm moving from editor.is.dreaming.org. So that may be
mixing Google up a bit more for the next couple of months. But
it doesn't matter, since this started even way before that.
Or could it be the previous dyndns.org's Webhop -redirect that
screwed everything up? Maybe it was changed somehow around
spring 2004...
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Mikko Peltoniemi
Film & Video Editor, Avid Technician at large.
http://www.discountcadavers.com
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