Google Visiting my Site, But not crawling?

ghost · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

Hey guys, Googlebot is visiting my site... But wont budge off the Forum Index?

I have submitted a site map, yet it says the last successful visit was:

dcz

And Welcome Very Happy

So I assume Google visited your site on the 17th and you where wondering why on the 18th you are not PR 10 ?

Well, even indexing takes time, if your site was never indexed before, it can take up to couple month to have Google decide himself about crawling and caching you pages.
In all cases, the Google sitemaps system seems to need a month before it will massively cache the new URLs found in it.

More details about your site would help here, number of backlinks, PageRank and Etc ..., to go further into telling what could be wrong if anything is Wink

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ghost · Joined: 20 Oct 2006 Posts: 2

Thanx for welcoming me Very Happy

Oki here it goes:

my site started a while back.. a few months...
And it was crawling and indexing my site just fine... My site was down for about 1 month whilst looking for a new site... Google successfully visits my site but just stays on the forum index

dcz

Well, if your site was out for a month, then this is normal to experiment some SEO troubles. It can actually be worth than restarting from scratch, not that bad though, but you'll need to stay online for a while to re-obtain the search engine's trust (they do not like to have worked for nothing).

So this is quite a good occasion to work on your web site, to make it a bot heaven before you'll get re indexed. As it's phpBB, there are some things you can use from here Wink

I think you should consider using one of the phpBB SEO mod Rewrite, and for sure should think about the www prefix duplicate as it was already spidered : http://www.google.com/search?q=site:fxpzone.com&filter=0

Then dynamic meta tags is a good thing, as well as mx Google sitemaps and mx sitemaps.

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