simple google indexing question

by cancunapril50 Posted: 13 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.

#search engine optimization #google #indexing #question #simple

dvduval 13 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 13 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?
Charles AK 13 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 13 years ago
  
  2 versions of the same url? How does that happen and How can I fix it?
  
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Charles AK 13 years ago

please research canonical urls.
John Romaine 13 years ago

A keyword search and site:www.mydomain.com have nothing to do with each other.
Shaolinsteve 13 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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simple google indexing question

cancunapril50 • 13 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.