Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

really hard to say without looking at the site tbh

Originally Posted by DamageX

Go to Google and do a site:yourdomain.com and see how many pages it says it has indexed. If the results look normal, then there may be some temporary fuck-up, they tend to happen.

Originally Posted by AmeliaG

Originally Posted by Brujah

It's PR3 for the index.php however. You should do some 301s for that

Originally Posted by leek

That site lists PR5 for me. Are you adding more outbound links (and thus shredding your reputation) than normal?

If the pages in question have dynamic content, and Google crawls your site frequently - you will see your site jump around as it becomes more or less relevant to various search terms.

I would recommend submitting an XML sitemap to Google that conforms to the 0.90 spec (http://sitemaps.org/). Feel free to hit me up on ICQ if you need more information or anything.

Originally Posted by AmeliaG

What does dynamic content mean in this context?

Originally Posted by AmeliaG

Article updates often have one to five links in an article of 400 to 1,200 words, although occasionally there is an article with none.

Originally Posted by leek

That site lists PR5 for me. Are you adding more outbound links (and thus shredding your reputation) than normal?

If the pages in question have dynamic content, and Google crawls your site frequently - you will see your site jump around as it becomes more or less relevant to various search terms.

I would recommend submitting an XML sitemap to Google that conforms to the 0.90 spec (http://sitemaps.org/). Feel free to hit me up on ICQ if you need more information or anything.

Originally Posted by ebus_dk

Since it's a blog, and feeds are active, adding sitemaps do nothing whatsoever. Google know the pages are there.

Originally Posted by leek

That's why they aren't listed on search results?

Quote from the Official Google Webmaster blog:



Source: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...eb-search.html

Originally Posted by ebus_dk

you dont even understand what it is you read ...

The FEEDS dont show up in the searchresult. This have nothing to do with the SITE being indexed.

Google see the feeds, and see the source(the post) of the feed, the source(the post) is indexed but the feed is not, and should never ever be indexed, since its a FEED.

Try to understand the difference

Originally Posted by leek

But you're right, I shouldn't be arguing with you. I mean come on, look at your beautiful site http://ebusdk.com.

Originally Posted by ebus_dk

It's about FEEDS, it have NOTHING to do with the original post being left out of the index. You still dont even understand what it is you are reading

Originally Posted by leek

I never said that a feed doesn't also work as a sitemap in terms of indexing. I just pointed out that the feed results themselves aren't listed in search results. I already agreed with you that the original post can be indexed via the feed, you're just so blinded by being a dickhead that you failed to read it. Submitting an alternative sitemap isn't going to hurt anybody, so go argue and be bitter with someone else.

I believe I understand perfectly. So thanks anyways.

Now quit being rude and give the lady's thread back.

Originally Posted by Brujah

It shows PR5 here, AmeliaG. It's PR3 for the index.php however. You should do some 301s for that I think, to keep the default domain rank high and not let the index.php dilute for various reasons.

Originally Posted by TheDA

I've never come across that scenario before, but then again I've never looked.

So 301 the index.php to the bare root (http://www.domain.com/) that what you mean? In .htaccess?

Originally Posted by AmeliaG

How does the index of a PR5 site suddenly become unranked?

I have one site which keeps moving around, in terms of how Google seems to view it, to a really dramatic degree. It has been PR5 or PR6 for many years, online for almost a decade, but sometimes it is all the way at the very end of the search results for obvious terms and sometimes it is #1. Right now, a couple of unimportant internal pages seem to come up and are PR2. What the heck is going on? Any thoughts?

Originally Posted by ebus_dk

I see no need for you to start declaring 301 error specific redirects, as long as you have a 404 errorpage declared corectly. (point to /index.php and NOT domain.com/index.php)

Originally Posted by leek

Since blueblood.net and blueblood.net/index.php are effectively the same page and she cannot control the ~100 or so sites that link directly to http://www.blueblood.net/index.php it is a wise decision to set index.php to 301 redirect (not error) to the root of her domain. Each of the pages in question have different PageRanks despite the fact that they are the same page. This means that Google sees them as different pages. By setting a 301 redirect from one to the other, Google merges the pages into one. This will combine the reputations of both pages into one and increase that singular page's importance.

Please read Google's guide on when to use 301 redirects here:
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=93633

Note the part that says:


Now please be quiet and let the grown ups talk.

Originally Posted by ebus_dk

AGAIN you prove you dont understand what it is you are reading
They are diferenciating between
http://example.com/home
http://home.example.com
http://www.example.com

NOT
http://www.example.com
and
http://example.com

Check her site...

Originally Posted by leek

umm.. Can you read?

In my post I am obviously differentiating between:
http://www.blueblood.net/index.php
and
http://www.blueblood.net/

I'm done with this clown. Can someone else please beat some sense into him?

Originally Posted by Brujah

leek is correct, I don't know what ebus is smoking.

There's a reason that PR is different on AmeliaG's default page(s), because Google is seeing them as different. That's why domain.com has PR5 while domain.com/index.php has PR3.

It is better to correct this with a 301, than to take ebus' advice. It may strengthen the PR5, because currently it looks like a weak 5 based on the sub pages of the site with mostly 3's and 2s at best.

Originally Posted by Brujah

This is an issue where it isn't going to harm her by adding the 301, but most certainly can help her. Why not do it?

Originally Posted by marcjacob

Leek: I kind of half understand what your saying, just to be clear, should every wordpress blog do the 301 thing you suggest then?

Originally Posted by Doctor Feelgood

# redirects index.php to main url
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Originally Posted by Doctor Feelgood

# redirects index.php to main url
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Originally Posted by leek

Something like this should do the trick:

Of course, you'll need mod_rewrite enabled.

Originally Posted by Doctor Feelgood

# redirects index.php to main url
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Originally Posted by leek

Something like this should do the trick:

Of course, you'll need mod_rewrite enabled.

Originally Posted by leek

Something like this should do the trick:

Of course, you'll need mod_rewrite enabled.

Originally Posted by Doctor Feelgood

that doesnt work on my server so i have to use this and added a line to ignore the directory with my linkex script. you can just replace linkex with any directory that you want it to ignore. but i dont think this is amelia`s problem. her problem on google is called the "yo-yo effect". its google testing the sites trust.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} !/linkex/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]