ZZzzzzzZZZZZ Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Google hasnt indexed my page properly look: http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&source=hp&q=saf+web+designers&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=95364e430633fe9 It has indexed it as / without the http:// WHY? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +primortal Subscriber² Posted May 11, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted May 11, 2010 Its implied that it's http:// It's not a big deal and all the major browsers don't need it unless your looking for https:// or ftp:// Heck if you look at advertisements today they don't even display http:// anymore for web sites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 e-berlin.org Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 This can be fixed in www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Matt Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 i heard something about google doing something without the http://. i have no clue why or what it was exactly but it sounds familiar. it does the same thing for one of my websites. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=eternal+sin http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=lolubad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 +primortal Subscriber² Posted May 11, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted May 11, 2010 This can be fixed in www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ You did notice there no http:// in the options, just the site with www or without it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cupcakes Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 This can be fixed in www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ That's entirely different. Google actually sees www and no-www as two different domains. For SEO purposes, it is best that you chose one or the other. To "resolve" the issue, you normally create an .htaccess rule that redirects one to the other, so that only ONE option is available. Thus, why it asks which option you want (www or no-www.) http:// is useless to google and any other search engine. It's unnecessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ZZzzzzzZZZZZ Posted May 11, 2010 Author Share Posted May 11, 2010 also if u type http://www.safwebdesigners.com into google, the meta description seems messed up. When clearly I have defined meta tags properly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cupcakes Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 What results are you seeing? Google has a cache of your website so it's picking up the following which shows your website as "under construction." Might want to read over these: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=70897 http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/webmasters?hl=en Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 GrandMaster Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 you should set a htaccess rewrite just open up (or make) a file called ".htaccess" edit it and put this code in: <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} . RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://([^.]+\.)?bayareatechpros\.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)/[^/]+/[^.]+\.xls$ http://www.bayareatechpros.com/$1/ [NC,R=302,L] this will rewrite all http:// to http://www. , keeping your page uniform amongst a bunch of search engines. Its one of the basic pillars of seo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cupcakes Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 If you're going to post up code, might want to remove what isn't applicable. He doesn't need the rewrite rule for the .xls you've got in there :). That being said it's a site owner's discretion to use www or no-www. You can redirect to one of the two and it will work out just fine with SEO. Also, would probably be best to have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ZZzzzzzZZZZZ Posted May 11, 2010 Author Share Posted May 11, 2010 Yes, I was going to do that but currently on linux server, shall I place it inside public_html or in in the directory behind "\". I believe it goes into the public_html but just want to make sure: Also within my htaccess file already I have a "SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5" set, shall i include the following code below it: Is it all correct? cheers SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://([^.]+\.)?safwebdesigners\.com [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)/[^/]+/[^.]+\.xls$ http://www.safwebdesigners.com/$1/ [NC,R=302,L] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cupcakes Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 That's not correct. Each needs to be on its own line: SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.safwebdesigners.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://safwebdesigners.com/$1 [R=301,L] </IfModule> That's if you don't want to have www in the domain name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ZZzzzzzZZZZZ Posted May 11, 2010 Author Share Posted May 11, 2010 This is the code I put in a while ago: SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5 Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on rewritecond %{http_host} ^safwebdesigners.com [nc] rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.safwebdesigners.com/$1 [r=301,nc] And it seems to work, but it has nc at the end whats the difference between NC and L and Options + FollowSymlinks ? Also do I need to protect the .htaccess currently at 644 default. does it need privalages for security Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cupcakes Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Or you could google to find out :). But L = Last rule NC = Case insensitive To enable the rewriting engine for per-directory configuration files you need to set ``RewriteEngine On'' in these files and ``Options FollowSymLinks'' must be enabled. If your administrator has disabled override of FollowSymLinks for a user's directory, then you cannot use the rewriting engine. This restriction is needed for security reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ZZzzzzzZZZZZ Posted May 12, 2010 Author Share Posted May 12, 2010 Thanks for your help very much appreciated! 1 last thing are my meta tags correct <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>SAF Web Designers | Professional, Affordable Web Design from ?149.99</title> <meta name="version" content="v1" /> <meta name="description" content="Custom built web design and solutions at affordable prices, designed by our expert designers " /> <meta name="keywords" content="Web design, website design, web designers, web development, Content management systems, CMS, ecommerce solutions, ecommerce, hosting, professional, saf, web based solutions, website, software packages, security, innovative, design" /> <meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow, NOODP" /> <meta name="author" content="SAF Web Designers" /> <meta name="language" content="EN" /> <meta name="Classification" content="Website Design Company" /> <meta name="copyright" content="www.safwebdesigners.com" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> You can see on this line "<meta name="robots" content="NOODP, index, nofollow" />" I used the noodp along with index page and no follow links. Structured like this above will it work. Google has recently updatated the cache but not any of the <meta name="description"> or <title> information. Meta tag analyser says all is fine! Strange! or maybe just have to wait a month or so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cupcakes Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Why would you want nofollow on all links? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ZZzzzzzZZZZZ Posted May 12, 2010 Author Share Posted May 12, 2010 Why would you want nofollow on all links? Reason being, only needing the index page to be indexed within google. I really should be a little more patient, as from past experience the indexing process can take months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Cupcakes Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Or maybe you should real a little bit on Google. It doesn't take months to get your website indexed. :blink: This neowin thread came up within minutes on Google after you created it, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ZZzzzzzZZZZZ Posted May 12, 2010 Author Share Posted May 12, 2010 Or maybe you should real a little bit on Google. It doesn't take months to get your website indexed. :blink: This neowin thread came up within minutes on Google after you created it, lol. Neowin has alot of traffic no wonder, pages are indexed almost instantly hopefully giving time, it will improve. Maybe 1 week should do the trick. Funny thing happening now every day or so the website description seems to have changed look: http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&source=hp&q=site%3A+www.safwebdesigners.com with "site: www.safwebdesigners.com" Now in google try http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=off&q=saf+web+designers with "saf web designers" It's really strange, google is confused or maybe its me contantly, updating the index.html fileqqq Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ZZzzzzzZZZZZ Posted May 15, 2010 Author Share Posted May 15, 2010 Hi if possible mod can this thread be deleted now. Problems are all sorted It's coming up in google search!! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ZZzzzzzZZZZZ Posted September 10, 2010 Author Share Posted September 10, 2010 The site has now indexed correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Google hasnt indexed my page properly look:
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&source=hp&q=saf+web+designers&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=95364e430633fe9
It has indexed it as / without the http:// WHY?
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