Yet another "Why don't I appear on Google?"
We host a virtual site for a client on our web server machine. Our
site is indexed and appears reasonably placed in Google. Our client's
site is invisible. We submitted it 2 months ago. Our statistics show
that Googlebot has visited the site from time to time, but never
gotten more than one page. A Google search even specifically listing
the domain returns no results.
The only visits the site gets is by people following the link from OUR
site (which should be an "external reference/link" causing Google to
look there when indexing our site). It also gets referrals from the
web design and graphical design companies that helped develop the
site. Those sites are visible on Google.
Our client's site is not anywhere in the Google index, as best we can
tell. Google has only been by to visit the site once, after we
submitted the URL in May. It saw one page. Alexa, Scooter, Inktomi
manage to find it. But no MSN, no Google.
We've reviewed all the rules. There are no frames. We're at a loss
to understand why our client is invisible. |
Request for Question Clarification by
angy-ga
on
02 Aug 2003 01:34 PDT
Perhaps if you could give us the url of the site someone might be able to help.
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Clarification of Question by
techsmith-ga
on
05 Aug 2003 10:04 PDT
Clarification:
There is no robots.txt. The URL is www.phoenixoptions.com. This is a
virtual site, the "real" site is www.techsmiths.com, and is well
indexed. Only the virtual site does not appear. The "virtual" is NOT
a mirror of the "real".
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Request for Question Clarification by
serenata-ga
on
05 Aug 2003 14:17 PDT
Hi Techsmith ~
I suspect your problem may be in your "virtual hosting" and/or the
redirect to the space.
I tried to access www.phoenixoptions.com twice from my cable, and the
return was to the techsmith site. I then tried via a dsl network, and
the same thing ... I was not able to see the phoenixoptions.com site
at all.
Curious, I asked colleagues in Dallas, Denver, New Hampshire, Salt
Lake City and Redmond, Washington to look and only one (Redmond, WA)
was able to get the phoenixoptions site at all - the rest of are all
seeing the techsmith site.
If we're experiencing getting "techsmith.com" when we type in the URL
for phoenixoptions.com, it is not unreasonable to assume that the
Googlebot may be experiencing the same problem. Google will not list a
site it "sees" as a doorway page for techsmiths.com.
There's a glitch there somewhere. I suspect if you track down the
problem and resubmit phoenixoptions.com, it will be indexed.
Hope this helps,
Serenata
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Clarification of Question by
techsmith-ga
on
05 Aug 2003 15:33 PDT
I have colleagues in Albuquerque, Bogota Colombia, and Bombay India
who can access the site. As stated in the original question, Alexa,
scooter, and inktomi are all able to find the site.
I agree that if general users are experiencing the problem you relate,
googlebot will as well. However, I know of no one who gets the
TechSmiths site when asking for Phoenixoptions.
You state "There's a glitch there somewhere. I suspect if you track
down the
problem and resubmit phoenixoptions.com, it will be indexed." I
suspect there's a glitch somewhere too. However, I have tried to
locate such a glitch for 6 weeks with no luck. Hence the question.
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