Why Googlebot is not visiting me anymore?

Heat · #1 (**permalink**) 12-04-2005, 06:19 PM

Hi,
I don't know what's going on with one of my sites: http://www.flamingoblinds.co.uk (2 years old). Since 18th November no crawler from GOOGLE and MSN have visited my site. The crawlers visited me every day and I was ranking quite good in these SE.(for example the KW: BLINDS). Doing a search in SE you'll see that my site is listed only with the URL address and no title. What happened? How can I fix this? Please HELP. Many thanks.

aaron2005 · #2 (**permalink**) 12-04-2005, 09:07 PM

Can you use commas in urls like that?

http://www.flamingoblinds.co.uk/site...aper_page.html

Heat · #3 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 03:22 AM

Yes, you can. It's not this the problem, because the site is 2 years old and it was OK with the URLs. Any suggestions?

johnyfav · #4 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 05:01 AM

I couldn't find a robots.txt - so couldn't check that.

On a side note the design is quality. Credit where credit is due....

Heat · #5 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 07:10 AM

I don't know what's the problem. MSN is returning only 3 pages from my site: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q...NH&srch_type=0
GOOGLE list more pages from my site, but some of them are listed without title and description http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search

What should I do? What keeps out the GOOGLE and MSN crawlers away from my site? It's been 17 days since last visit from these crawlers.

PS: other robots/crawlers still visit my site like: Yahoo, wisenutbot.com, Ask Jeeves/Teoma, Alexa

aaron2005 · #6 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 08:45 AM

why do your internal pages show no visual pr?

wrmineo · #7 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 09:03 AM

A few suggestions, though the may not necessarily be indicative of your current problem:

You have lots of js code in your <head> element.

You have too many, unnecessary meta tags.

Your <title> looks more like spammy keyword stuffing than a real title.

Your flash is cool, but could also be a stopper for the bots.

You have no robots.txt file - many will say it's not necessary, but Google, MSN and Yahoo! all three still recommend.

google junky · #8 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 09:21 AM

I have to ask. What type of redirect are you using when someone puts in a url of jibbersish that would normally bring up a 404 page?

An url like www.flamingoblinds.co.uk/fghrfgh just takes me back to the opening page of the site.
Also, Has it always been this way?

Here is an interesting tidbit of info that may be the reason. Duplicate content.

These two urls are the same page.
The first url being thought as an index page for a directory called "site_m,wooden-blinds_page"
The seecond url being a page named "site_m,wooden-blinds_page.html"
http://www.flamingoblinds.co.uk/site...en-blinds_page
http://www.flamingoblinds.co.uk/site...inds_page.html

I would consider this a problem

Heat · #9 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 10:28 AM

My internal pages have PR 4 like the main page and yes in the 2nd level I have PR 3.

Yes, my titles are stuffed with KW, but I think they are good quality many of them and represent what the page is about (they are not just an array of KW) and I don't think that's a problem.

I'm really mad because I was doing really well in google after the update. But I don't know why the crawlers avoid my site :(

Should I create a robots.txt file? Any other suggestions?

google junky · #10 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 10:35 AM

Hey Heat,

did you read my post or did we post at thew same time? :)

Heat · #11 (**permalink**) 12-05-2005, 11:07 AM

Yes, I saw your answer. Sorry for not responding, but I don't think is this the problem. Both MSN and Google crawlers stopped visiting my site that day (19th Nov), that's the problem, why both?
I didn't changed anything to my site in that period.

freehits · #12 (**permalink**) 12-06-2005, 01:50 PM

I have seen ablot of decached pages, and many sites losing their descriptions or using old descriptions.

Some no have no cache, and the ones that do the cache is from like Nov 21 or something.

There is another thread about this happening at
seo1.net, though it is mostly questions at this point.

Heat · #13 (**permalink**) 12-06-2005, 02:31 PM

Many thanks Hoptoo, I hope in the next few days to be back on google top positions.
Regards,
Heat

google junky · #14 (**permalink**) 12-06-2005, 07:25 PM

I wish you luck heat. The duplicate content cant be a good thing either. It will eventuly catch up with you if it hasn't already. Hopefully your problem is something hoptoo is talking about. I would for sure fix the duplicate content issue though.

Good luck in all you do,
Google Junky signing off

Heat · #15 (**permalink**) 12-07-2005, 04:49 AM

Many thanks. I think I'm back on track ;)
Take care.

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