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[EmmaFlower]

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google had decided to only index four of my pages after having them all indexed for ages now, I can't understand why they have done that, any ideas??



Emma

[fizzbird]

google had decided to only index four of my pages after having them all indexed for ages now, I can't understand why they have done that, any ideas??

It's not unusual, they rarely index every page. If you had 220 pages then I would worry, but if it's the site I know about then don't lose sleep over it

[DannyW]

If it's your TV football site then I see 25 pages indexed in G.co.uk

There is a Canonical error with the htaccess... You can access via www and non www, which usually is throws a bit a error with Google sometimes.

[tbp]

This may sort its self out in time, I`ve seen many times Google drop almost all pages from the index for a couple of weeks, and then they all reappear again.

It seems to be part of their indexing process, and usually a shake up of the results happens afterwards.

Wait and see what happens for a bit, i`ve seen people panic by this process and make changes which further damages their rankings when everything would of have been fine if they'd just waited.

At the moment there seems to be a lot going on at Google, a lot of the times its best to wait and take stock of the situation before you act.

[fizzbird]

If it's your TV football site then I see 25 pages indexed in G.co.uk

Mmm, you've been busy Miss F.

One thing I noticed is that your site map only has about 10 pages yet Google is returning over 20?
I'd have a look at your site map and make sure it's up to date and maybe have the link to it on every page?

Keep up the good work.

[DannyW]

One thing I noticed is that your site map only has about 10 pages yet Google is returning over 20?

That's because Google is indexing both www and non www and is even making some obscure urls that don't exsist ie www.footballonthetv.co.uk/page41.htm

[fizzbird]

That's because Google is indexing both www and non www and is even making some obscure urls that don't exsist ie www.footballonthetv.co.uk/page41.htm

Ah, so would setting the display preference in webmaster tools to 'www' solve this, or would it need a redirect?

[compareie]

Hey Emma,

Welcome to the world of affiliate marketing - I hope you enjoy it and get as much pleasure out of it as the members here do :tup

Quick tip - you should really choose between having your pages indexed with or without the www... currently Live Football on the TV - where and when to watch live Football on TV and Live Football on the TV - where and when to watch live Football on TV are both indexable by google, so you could get into trouble with duplicate content filters and all that.

Best thing to do is to create a .htaccess file, and stick the following code into it, then upload it to your root:

RewriteEngine on

Rewritecond %{http_host} ^footballonthetv.co.uk [nc]
Rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.footballonthetv.co.uk/$1 [r=301,nc]

That will redirect any requests to the 'www' version of your site.

Cheers,

Hugh

[DannyW]

Cheers Hugh for posting that up, forgot about this thread whilst I was busy cocking one of my sites up.

[EmmaFlower]

Thanks guys :tup

as it happens, over night google has indexed more pages and I now have a page rank of 3 instead of 0!

maybe it just needed some mystic brain focus on it ey!

Emma

[EmmaFlower]

Mmm, you've been busy Miss F.

Indeed I have