I've lost my indexing on google since around 7th / 8th of the month and am trying to find out why as I've changed nothing. Has anyone else had this problem?
Helen Rankin (Guest)
27 May 2008 4:15 PM
Checking the code on my homepage and we appear to have some spurious code in the <head> tag, with a typo of javacript in the first line - is this potentially kicking the google spider out before it has a chance to crawl the rest of my site?
<!--
// compare javacript
function compareItems()
{
var checkedNumber = 0;
var checkedItems = "";
var formsNames = document.forms_names.form_name;
for (var i = 0; i < formsNames.length; i++) {
var formName = formsNames.value;
if(document.forms[formName].compare.checked) {
checkedNumber++;
if(checkedNumber > 1) { checkedItems += ","; }
checkedItems += document.forms[formName].compare.value;
}
}
if (checkedNumber < 2) {
alert("You must select at least 2 products");
} else if (checkedNumber > 5) {
alert("You must select no more than 5 products");
} else {
document.compare_form.items.value = checkedItems;
document.compare_form.submit();
}
return false;
}
function compareRecentItems(formName)
{
var checkedNumber = 0;
var checkedItems = "";
var recentForm = document.forms[formName];
var compareItems = recentForm.compare;
for (var i = 0; i < compareItems.length; i++) {
if(recentForm.compare.checked) {
checkedNumber++;
if(checkedNumber > 1) { checkedItems += ","; }
checkedItems += recentForm.compare.value;
}
}
if (checkedNumber < 2) {
alert("You must select at least 2 products");
} else if (checkedNumber > 5) {
alert("You must select no more than 5 products");
} else {
recentForm.items.value = checkedItems;
recentForm.submit();
}
return false;
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
RLW
29 May 2008 7:33 PM
<QUOTE: ...dropped out of google suddenly? I've lost my indexing on google..... >
I just hate being a newbie, but at least this site has not chastised me yet. Some day I hope to be a novice. I'm setting up my first store (fun but work)!
Ok here goes; What does it mean that you "dropped out" and "lost indexing"
Regards RLW
alkatraz
1 Jun 2008 6:10 AM
Have you been removed from the google index or have your lost your rankings for particular keywords?
These are 2 completely different things.
Check into www.google.com/webmasters for details.
Helen Rankin (Guest)
1 Jun 2008 6:39 AM
I've out of the google index COMPLETELY.
Viart have done a lot of work for me over recent months, implementing a Direct News feed which was quite painful. I am not technical at all so anything beyond normal content management changes I get Viart to do for me.
Around 14th May I realised that some of the newsfeeds had suddenly started duplicating.
Not good. So I contacted Viart and they fixed it.
They didn't explain (and still haven't explained with confidence) why this suddenly started to happen.
Last week I realised that my site traffic was down for the second week in a row. I checked my google keywords branking for the start of the month and they looked fine, so I did a little manual checking and realised that I wasn't coming up for any of my keywords, not even my company name!
Cue panic! We've been working on SEO for almost 3 years now and had been getting good results.
Contact Viart who say that it isn't down to them.
Ask some other developers to take a quick look at the site and they spot that the links at the bottom of my site have stopped working and suddenly have a weird re-direct in place?
Contact Viart to ask why this has started happening? These links have worked fine for a year? No explanation back from them, just an offer to fix.
They have implemented the google webmaster code and from the feedback it looks as if the robots.txt file is ahving problems, which means that it isn't indexing the site at all.
Although Viart say that they've made no changes which would have impacted google, suddenly I have THREE unexplained things happening on my site:
- Direct News Feeds duplicating
- Bottom links not working / having weird middle pages come up
- Google indexing problem
VIART ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO MAKE CHANGES TO MY WEBSITE and so far they're not taking any responsibility for finding out why this is happening....it's like pulling teeth.
I'm seriously considering having my site rebuilt elsewhere to sort out this problem which is a major hassle that I could do without, but I really don't feel I have an alternative, I can't get the support I need here.
If anyone senior at Viart would care to comment, I'd love to hear from you?
I just hate being a newbie, but at least this site has not chastised me yet. Some day I hope to be a novice. I'm setting up my first store (fun but work)!
