[thelist] google does not index website????

Info@internetvraagbaak.nl info at internetvraagbaak.nl
Tue Dec 13 07:06:05 CST 2005


>Perhaps there is an issue with having one site at two apparent domains -
>for example, is the redirect from one to the other done using 301
>redirect or 302?

Well redirection..... i have added 2 domains configured as aliases to the 
main domain.
Not sure what that means in terms of the 301 -302 you mentione, sorry.





> Mark Rees wrote:
>
>> I had this problem as well once. You can speed up the process a little by
>> using a google sitemap. Read more here
>
> Well, that is interesting - hadn't come across sitemaps before.
>
> But Google don't imply in their reference materials that this is going
> to help the OP, do they - Have you direct experience that demonstrates
> this to be beneficial?
>
> The site map is an XML description of the pages in your site.
>
> "Sitemaps are particularly beneficial when users cannot reach all areas
> of a website through a browseable interface. (Generally, this is when
> users are unable to reach certain pages or regions of a site by
> following links). For example, any site where certain pages are only
> accessible via a search form would benefit from creating a Sitemap and
> submitting it to search engines...
> Please note that the Sitemap Protocol supplements, but does not replace,
> the crawl-based mechanisms that search engines already use to discover
> URLs. By submitting a Sitemap (or Sitemaps) to a search engine, you will
> help that engine's crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site."
> from https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en_GB/protocol.html
>
> The OP didn't say that he had submitted his site to google directly
> (http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/?continue=/addurl) - surely this is the
> first step.
>
> I didn't get the feeling from Google's materials that adding a sitemap
> was a necessary step, or that it it would help with the problem
> described where a site has been moved and now seems not to be being 
> indexed.
>
> Perhaps there is an issue with having one site at two apparent domains -
> for example, is the redirect from one to the other done using 301
> redirect or 302?
>
> However, that was a really helpful reference to the Sitemaps feature.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ian
>
>
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