Q and A: I've cleaned up the site spam so why isn't our home page being indexed by Google?
Dear Kalena...
Hope you're happy and healthy. Thanks so much for your help last time. I cleaned the hidden text off the page and we got re-indexed quite quickly.
But now we seem to have dropped out again. Although some of our subsidiary pages are indexed, the homepage does not seem to be, unless I'm searching incorrectly.
Any ideas?
Best wishes
Robin
www.breatheonline.com/
Kalena's Answer:
Dear Robin
Ok, a couple of things:
1) You obviously have two domains pointing to the same content (www.breatheonline.com and www.breatheyoga.co.uk). If you view the cache of your .com home page, you'll see that Gooogle produces the cache of the .co.uk home page. It seems that Google has decided that your UK domain is the main one and seems to be caching only that site.
2) A "site:URL" search for each domain shows that 22 pages from your .co.uk domain have been indexed while 4 pages from your .com domain have been indexed. To have Google index two domains with identical content is a dangerous thing because one will usually be suppressed and you rarely have the control over which one. I'm not sure about your DNS and IP setup, but you need to decide which domain you wish to promote in search engines and park the other domain to the same IP as the main one. You can also inform Google which site is your main domain via the Sitemaps Protocol. Check out the free XML sitemaps creator that I recommend.
3) Google is indexing and caching your home page at www.breatheyoga.co.uk just fine, from what I'm seeing. You simply need to do a search for your full URL. The last cache of the page was taken as recently as 26 November.
4) Once you've sorted out your domain issue, it might be a good idea to prepare an XML sitemap and submit it to Google Sitemaps as explained in Google's Webmaster Tools area.
5) Some of your incoming link partners are pointing to the .com site while others point to the .co.uk site. This is diluting your link popularity. Decide which domain is more important to promote via search engines and ask all your link partners to change their links to point to that site. Make sure you do the same thing with all your internal site links.
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Hope you're happy and healthy. Thanks so much for your help last time. I cleaned the hidden text off the page and we got re-indexed quite quickly.
But now we seem to have dropped out again. Although some of our subsidiary pages are indexed, the homepage does not seem to be, unless I'm searching incorrectly.
Any ideas?
Best wishes
Robin
www.breatheonline.com/
Kalena's Answer:
Dear Robin
Ok, a couple of things:
1) You obviously have two domains pointing to the same content (www.breatheonline.com and www.breatheyoga.co.uk). If you view the cache of your .com home page, you'll see that Gooogle produces the cache of the .co.uk home page. It seems that Google has decided that your UK domain is the main one and seems to be caching only that site.
2) A "site:URL" search for each domain shows that 22 pages from your .co.uk domain have been indexed while 4 pages from your .com domain have been indexed. To have Google index two domains with identical content is a dangerous thing because one will usually be suppressed and you rarely have the control over which one. I'm not sure about your DNS and IP setup, but you need to decide which domain you wish to promote in search engines and park the other domain to the same IP as the main one. You can also inform Google which site is your main domain via the Sitemaps Protocol. Check out the free XML sitemaps creator that I recommend.
3) Google is indexing and caching your home page at www.breatheyoga.co.uk just fine, from what I'm seeing. You simply need to do a search for your full URL. The last cache of the page was taken as recently as 26 November.
4) Once you've sorted out your domain issue, it might be a good idea to prepare an XML sitemap and submit it to Google Sitemaps as explained in Google's Webmaster Tools area.
5) Some of your incoming link partners are pointing to the .com site while others point to the .co.uk site. This is diluting your link popularity. Decide which domain is more important to promote via search engines and ask all your link partners to change their links to point to that site. Make sure you do the same thing with all your internal site links.
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