I'm trying to resolve an "issue": if I google for the keyword that is my website's domain (just the company name), I get a lot of results related to the company except for the home page... here is the output I see in the first 10 pages (I didn't look further).
- Crunchbase page
- Linkedin page
- Facebook page
- Our zendesk help center page
- Some external blog references on VentureBeat, pocketgamer, Forbes, etc
The site is accessible with or without www. prefix. The site is also accessible on http and https. It is a wordpress powered website.
Here is the google URL of the query
I've then tried googling for 'site:trophit.com' according to google's recommendation when your website doesn't show up on searches. Interesting enough - I get results of some posts in my website but NOT PAGES. Here is that query as well
I browsed some pages that are missing from the search and found that they contain the following metadata:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>
I checked the Wordpress->settings->reading section, the "discourage robots" is unchecked. I am unaware of any other similar settings in WP.
Any idea why all pages have 'noindex'?
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We have a website that is used to showcase our various products. The website uses MVC4 and subdomains areas.
product1.website.com
product2.website.com
We use the subdomain to determine which area to route the request.
Lately we have been getting http HEAD requests to our site using the IP only. Without the subdomain we can't know which area to send the request.
What should we do?
Send back a 404
Redirect to our most important area/product
Redirect to our company website
why not redirect users to an overview page where they see a short list of the products. In this way you can redirect them behind the screens to whereever you want without hem knowing and this also has the ability to be used when user make typo in the url so that they are 'guided' to the right product and even find other ones.
-a 404 usually makes people seek elsewhere since tey think they have the wrong IP
- redirect to most important product may result in confusion when you change your major product (users tend to bookmark a lot of useless urls)
- redirect to the company website is to my opinion the lesser of all evils, but users tend to get lost when redirected to a 'general' website.
example: you're looking for Windows 8 download and have the IP bookmarked
- 404 error: oh the page no longer exists
- main product: windows 9 is out but for some reason you still need windows 8: you spend more time looking for what you really need and probably find it elsewhere
- overview page: you see what you need in a list and if the list is short you quickly find it, otherwise a simple search reveals the item also.
so redirect to overview page is still a winning shot in my opinion
I changed my web sites' DNS, server and URL format.
So my web site's many links become broken and then I repaired all broken links after a month but during this, Google has deleted all my index and it still does not index my web site although I used a sitemap, meta tags, title and description etc …
What should I do for Google to index my web site?
This is my sitemap: http://yazilimsozluk.com/SiteMap/Index
i think it may works :- https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url?pli=1
Submit your website for inclusion in Google's index.
I am renewing my web page and changing the site structure. It was in Asp and now it will be in Asp.Net
So page URLs will be modified. And some pages will be removed, some will be added. But mostly, the content and page names are same, only URLs will change.
The site has SEO work in it and we want to loose it minimum.Site is registered in Analytics and Webmaster Tools.
Google searches will end up blank pages and I don't want to loose my rank.
So I'm looking for a way to inform Google about new page URLs. Domain is same, only URLs. For example: the home page was /default.asp and now /home.aspx
Is there a way to tell Google that a particular URL address or page name has changed?
If all that is changing are the page URLs, Google Analytics cannot "know" that a page is the same, just with diferent URL.
But, you could apply a customized pageview using the _trackPageView() method, giving it the original url as parameter.
If you choose to do this, you will have to exclude the line that uses the method in the original GA code and apply it elsewhere, or pass the parameter to it directly with the orignial URL. All this is done in each page.
You can also read more about the method here.
For IIS (Asp.Net) you want to look into the following to find out how to do 301 redirects:
Response.RedirectPermanent(...) for redirecting from a page
or
"IIS 7 Routing Module and web.config" to set up bulk redirecting
I'd also suggest you consider supporting Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs while your making the move. The Routing Module can help you there as well.
You need to implement some form of 301 (301 is key) redirects. This way when google or any other search hits the old page, the index is refreshed with the new page. Asp.net allows you to do these redirects even at the IIS level, and where I'd suggest that they live. You'll also want to submit an up to date site map on webmaster tools.
Edit: Here's a good link on the redirects, http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.webServer/httpRedirect
If i generate a site map at http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/, for aromapersona.com, I get 9 pages, however there are a bunch more pages that should show up. For example, aromapersona.com/candle_holder is in the same "front" directory as the other 9 pages, but doesnt generate in sitemap. Is this because no other pages on my site link to it? Im trying to get these other URLs indexed, and I even edited the site map to include this URL as well as others and submitted to google via webmaster tools, and still nothing. Advice?
I'm not familiar with aromapersona.com but it will only be able to list pages that are linked to from the initial page you give it (or ones they link to) unless you provide the site with FTP access (which I presume you dont).
If you include the URL's in your sitemap for goggle it should eventually list them, but linking to them from other parts of your site is probably the most effective.
I have not checked the website, but do also take the cause is not because of noindex, nofollow, robots.txt, javascript links, mixing http/https etc.
In clear wording: There is no link pointing to the subpage "candle_holder", hence the XML site generator (which works by following links on your site) cannot detect it.
You can add it manually to the XML, but then again, it should be accessible from the site directly.
I'm not sure why, but we have a dedicated Blog page on our site with some latest entires showing on the home page. Suddenly all links like the title of the entry and the Read More link are pointing to the home page to show the blog entry instead of the blog page.
I've tried regenerating the permalinks but that didn't help. I also can't find a setting somewhere that allows me to point the home page blog summaries to open on the actual blog page.
Anyone know what's going on?
Thanks,
Jacques
It seems this happens with the DNN Blog Module when you have its components spread across different pages and you then edit the blog entry on a different page from the normal page. The only way I saw to fix this is to go back to the original blog page, go to the blog entry, hit edit and then save.
I've had similar trouble in that my localhost DNN site would redirect to our live/production website on the publicly accessible url. I think the reason for the problem is the same - I think its a bug with the DNN blog module's 'SEO Friendly URL' setting.
If the permalinks (in the permalink field of the dnn_BLOG_Entries) use the seo friendly format (for ex: http://somesite.com/Blog/tabid/xx/Entryid/xx/your-blog-tile.aspx) due to the blog 'seo friendly format' setting then clicking the blog entry link from the blog page tends to mis-direct - in my case to the production website instead of the localhost website.
Un-checking the blog 'seo friendly' setting and re-building the permalinks (which doesn't seem to affect anything?) - and clicking 'update' in the blog settings page to commit the change - AND THEN editing each blog entry - ie go into edit mode to edit it and just re-saving - seems to resolve the problem, as this causes the permalink field in the dnn_Blog_Entries table to be updated correctly. However, you are stuck with non seo-friendly url permalinks (for ex:http://somesite.com/Blog/tabid/xx/Entryid/xx/Default.aspx).
This is as of latest DNN 7.x as of Feb 2013.