simple google indexing question

by cancunapril50

Posted: 11 years ago 10 replies

I have a newbie question. I have a 20 pages website.

When I entered a keyword into the google search, my page showed up on page 3, but when I entered the following command "site:www.mydomain.com", my page disappeared.

What is happening? I searched my google webmaster, and I didnt get any emails concerning my website errors. Am I losing my page? Please help, I spent many hours on the page.

#google #indexing #question #simple

dvduval 11 years ago

That is a little strange. Maybe also try site:mydomain.com or even search google for domain.com
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- cancunapril50 11 years ago
  
  this is extremely weird!
  
  If I tred site:mydomain.com, my page showed up!!! This never happened before. Do you have any ideas why is this happening?
  
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Charles AK 11 years ago

you most likely have to versions of your URL and the other version hasn't been indexed yet.
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- cancunapril50 11 years ago
  
  2 versions of the same url? How does that happen and How can I fix it?
  
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  Charles AK 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by cancunapril50
  
  2 versions of the same url? How does that happen and How can I fix it?
  
  your http://sitename.com URL got indexed and your www.sitename.com didn't, these are to different URLS, there is a lot of videos on this and articles if you search youtube and google for canonical urls.
  
  http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-ad...onicalization/
  
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  cancunapril50 11 years ago
  
  Thanks so much. I am going to go look it up. I was so scared. I thought google penalized my page.
  
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  Charles AK 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by cancunapril50
  
  Thanks so much. I am going to go look it up. I was so scared. I thought google penalized my page.
  
  I don't think it's really a big issue, just build links to both versions of your URL as this looks natural anyway, i edited my post above with a link to a blog post by matt cutts.
  
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Charles AK 11 years ago

please research canonical urls.
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John Romaine 11 years ago

A keyword search and site:www.mydomain.com have nothing to do with each other.
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Shaolinsteve 11 years ago

That link Charles gave you should most likely explain your issue. My first thought would have been to assign your site through Google Webmaster Tools and you can allocate a preferred domain i.e. mydomain.com or www.mydomain.com.

You don't really want both, so ideally pick one and go from there.
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