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What's Up With Google Lately?

by Robby54
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I just don't get it.. I purchased 2 domains (aged domains) with a PR of 3+ and it still not being updated in googles index no matter how many time I ping them. I have not put any content on one of the site but the other site has 500 words of unique unspun content. Both sites are on separate servers with different ip's. I even sent the site/post to lindexed to force google to recrawl the page and it's still showing me this generic godaddy parking page.

I had another site penalized by google because of the anchor text repetition so I purchased a new domain and wen't ahead and did a 301. A week passed and it seems like google only indexed the inner pages and not the homepage. So I tossed that domain, purchased another fresh domain WITHOUT the 301 and transferred the content and yet it's doing the same thing all over again despite the fact no 301 is being done.

Could anyone give me some insight on WTH is google doing? Did something change after penuin/panda that I am not aware of?
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  • Profile picture of the author Shaun Tango
    It can sometimes take time Robby, don't worry about it. Just add content to your sites, then link to them from a genuine and relevant source. A guest post or two with some Facebook / Twitter links should do the job.

    Note: Just because a site has PR, it doesn't mean it's going to rank easier. I've seen sites with PR rank a lot worse then sites with no PR. It just depends on how relevant you are / what the quality or your site and links are like. PR is no longer an accurate measurement of how trusted your site is in the eyes of Google. Having said that, I hope that's not the case with your domains.
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    • Profile picture of the author Robby54
      Originally Posted by Shaun Tango View Post

      It can sometimes take time Robby, don't worry about it. Just add content to your sites, then link to them from a genuine and relevant source. A guest post or two with some Facebook / Twitter links should do the job.

      Note: Just because a site has PR, it doesn't mean it's going to rank easier. I've seen sites with PR rank a lot worse then sites with no PR. It just depends on how relevant you are / what the quality or your site and links are like. PR is no longer an accurate measurement of how trusted your site is in the eyes of Google. Having said that, I hope that's not the case with your domains.
      Thanks Shaun for your reply, I asked a few more people about getting my home page indexed and they told me the same thing you just said so I will defiantly be trying and will see how that goes.

      As for my high PR domains, Yea, it has very few back links but the links that are coming in are all from authority sites. Im not really trying to rank these sites but I do want google to at least crawl them. I will give it more time to see how it goes since the domains are indexed but it just seems to be taking google some time to crawl them and update them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daones
    How long has it been? It may help to bookmark the website in digg or other social networks. Ive found it helps speed up the indexing process.
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    • Profile picture of the author Robby54
      Originally Posted by nationsubmit View Post

      How long has it been? It may help to bookmark the website in digg or other social networks. Ive found it helps speed up the indexing process.
      It has been about a week since I have tried to get the .net indexed. I tried to 301 and that that was the problem so I went ahead and took that down, purchased a new .org yesterday (I did not send a 301 to the .org) and so far the only thing that's indexed is the about us page.
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      • Profile picture of the author Robby54
        Do you guys think that there's a possibility that google might see my site as duplicate and just simply refuse to index it since I did not 301 it (I already took it down and requested google not to index my old site already)?
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      • Profile picture of the author dburk
        Hi Robby54,

        It sounds like you are simply too impatient.

        Google does not spider your entire website all at once. They usually index one page then come back in a few days and index a few more pages, and so on. It is a process that can takes weeks to get the average website fully indexed.

        Even though you may have purchased domains, that at one time had a homepage PR of 3, that does not mean those same pages still have PR, it is likely they do not, and that they have been previously de-indexed from being offline for an extended period, or other similar issues.

        You do not need to keep abandoning your domains, you bought into some bad advice there. Just build a decent website, that meets Google's guidelines for webmasters, get some decent backlinks, and the Googlebot will be along to spider and index. Once you have one page indexed, you know you are on the path to full indexation, just relax and be patient while you continue a solid promotional campaign and you'll get listed and ranking in due time.
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        • Profile picture of the author Robby54
          Originally Posted by dburk View Post

          Hi Robby54,

          It sounds like you are simply too impatient.

          Google does not spider your entire website all at once. They usually index one page then come back in a few days and index a few more pages, and so on. It is a process that can takes weeks to get the average website fully indexed.

          Even though you may have purchased domains, that at one time had a homepage PR of 3, that does not mean those same pages still have PR, it is likely they do not, and that they have been previously de-indexed from being offline for an extended period, or other similar issues.

          You do not need to keep abandoning your domains, you bought into some bad advice there. Just build a decent website, that meets Google's guidelines for webmasters, get some decent backlinks, and the Googlebot will be along to spider and index. Once you have one page indexed, you know you are on the path to full indexation, just relax and be patient while you continue a solid promotional campaign and you'll get listed and ranking in due time.
          Yea, you are right think I do need to be patient. As for the domain with the PR, I think they still do have their PR. I checked the incoming links and they are all from PR pages so I don't think the domains would of lost there PR.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr Lim
    Interesting, would like to hear more.
    Since Google is the largest search engine at the moment. What has he been up to.
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