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texxs

11-12-2005, 07:13 AM

Iv've had this website Florida Fishing Informationfor many many years. Before google was around as a matter of fact.

Google has always ignored it totally. Even though it's always been #1 on yahoo and all the other SE's I've checked google would not include it no matter what Idid. It's even in the DMOZ (for many many years).

Now I'm #1 in the SERP for "florida fishing information" (minus the quotes). I'm so happy but I don't think it'll last for some reason. Not sure why it took so long either.

google junky

11-12-2005, 09:48 AM

I deleted this post. The next one was the true reason why. Read on........

google junky

11-12-2005, 10:22 AM

I did look at it a little closer than the first post I wrote for you.
Make sure you are sitting down for this............

This is going to sound very odd to you maybe and I would be surprised if it doesn't shock you.
Your site may never have had content as far as the domain floridafishinginformation.com
I know for sure it didn't have its own content on the dates Jun 24, 2004 (http://web.archive.org/web/20040624073915/http://floridafishinginformation.com/) and Sep 28, 2004 (http://web.archive.org/web/20040928020648/http://floridafishinginformation.com/)
This code is from those dates.

<html>
<head>
<title>Florida Fishing Information by Texx Smith</title>
<META name="description" content="A non-commercial resource. Fishing tips and information complete with pictures, news, tips, weather, The Venice FL Area Report and more.">
<META name="keywords" content="tips, florida, fishing, snook, redfish, tarpon, grouper, sailfish, barracuda, shark, pompano, permit, jack, crevalle jack, shrimp, baits, conditions, weather,tips, fishing, Venice, Florida, West, coast,">
</head>
<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://greenerehabservices.com/ffi/index.htm" frameborder="0">
<frame frameborder="0" noresize>
</frameset>
</html>

Your page consisted of a frames page from greenerehabservices.com .
You can view dates and what the site was doing here http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://greenerehabservices.com/ffi/index.htm

You didn't have a chance to be listed on google when the site was setup this way.
The only thing you had going for you as far as content was a title and a few meta tags. The rest wasn't your site.

Who in the world was managing your site and why was it set up to use framed content from greenerehabservices.com instead of your own site?
That's a hell of a lot of years that yu could have been where you are now possibly.

google junky

11-12-2005, 04:27 PM

The person that designed greenerehabservices.com was texxsmith.com and your name here is texxs.
Did you design your site to use frames like I showed in the last post?

cspelts

11-13-2005, 03:28 AM

Now I'm #1 in the SERP for "florida fishing information" (minus the quotes). I'm so happy but I don't think it'll last for some reason. Not sure why it took so long either.
I remember the thread you started on this site several months ago and all the great advice you got, and it doesn't surprise me at all that you got great results!
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?p=231628

There's no mystery - you had some major issues, which you cleaned up, and now you're reaping the rewards! Congratulations!

texxs

11-15-2005, 04:52 PM

no but I can see how it would look like that was how it was set up but it wasn't.

Long story, short version. Temporarily I had 4 different websites and one server account. Less than a year, but almost. I was flat broke due to some (anti)fantasic reasons. Butt it wasn't using frames, it was just the files were stored at, and the domain name forwrded to that greenerehabservices address. I'm not sure where you found that code:
<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://greenerehabservices.com/ffi/index.htm" frameborder="0">
<frame frameborder="0" noresize>
</frameset>

But it would help explain why google was ignoring me. At least temporarily. wouldn't it? But I'm telling you that was a long time ago and it was only temporary.

google junky

11-15-2005, 06:15 PM

Have you ever used web.archive.org ?
It shows what your site looked like and the code from the dates it lists.

I know of no way that a frames page can be perceieved as a redirect.
(note that the archive of this site from web.archive.org allows the code to be viewed as well and they don't mysteriously add content that wasn't there)

Certainly you gained no browny points with Google when you site was that way.

I wish you luck in the future.

texxs

11-15-2005, 08:53 PM

sure I've used web archive before. But I'm telling ya I've NEVER used frames before except maybe way back when I was learning HTML in the early 90's.

Perhaps webarchive itself is changing the site: What the heck does this mean, in english:



Perhaps it means they are displaying the page in a frame when it wasn't originally.