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Q: Why does Google report that they have no information about our site? ( Answered,   2 Comments )
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Subject: Why does Google report that they have no information about our site?
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: ron17134-ga
List Price: $50.00
Posted: 12 Aug 2002 13:31 PDT
Expires: 11 Sep 2002 13:31 PDT
Question ID: 53739
We have a site http://BusinessOL.com. When you do a Google Search on
BusinessOL Google returns a link to our site plus many others.
However, when you do a search on BusinessOL.com it returns "Sorry, no
information is available for the URL. We appear to be indexed by
Google but Google reports that we are not. How is this possible?
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Subject: Re: Why does Google report that they have no information about our site?
Answered By: answerguru-ga on 12 Aug 2002 16:25 PDT
 
Hi Ron,

To answer your question, the actual content on your domain has been
indexed by Google, though the message "Sorry, no information is
available for the URL" indicates something a little bit different.

Firstly, I conducted a set of searches of terms I know are on your
site such as:
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=site%3ABusinessOL.com+BOLPro&meta=

The purpose of the site:BusinessOL.com search term is to restrict all
search results to the given domain name. So it is confirmed that all
of the content listed on your domain has been indexed by Google.

Next we need to check for information made available on your URL. A
little background on the syntax is sure to help - when you type:
SomeDomain.com
into the search box, the fact that it is a first level domain is
detected by the search engine and Google now looks only at its
database containing URL information and NOT the indexed contents of
the site.

For example, suppose you type (try this):
yahoo.com
into the search box; you will see that one result (at most) will
always appear and a link to that domain will be supplemented by some
comments about the site in general. How do these comments get there?
The webmaster needs to put them in!

So how do you add this information? Simply head on over to the Add URL
page on the Google website and enter it in:
://www.google.com/addurl.html

Keep in mind that the information you type into the "Comments" field
will NOT be considered keywords for the site. Instead, you will be
trying to answer the question: "What is BusinessOL.com?" or something
to that extent. It would be most beneficial, therefore, to put it in
plain English :)

It is important to clarify that the process that occurs when indexing
the contents of your site is NOT linked to the information that you
provide Google with regarding the site. It will also NOT help your
ranking for normal searches. Since it is often unclear what the
general theme of a domain will be, Google avoid making such a
generalization and leaves it to the webmaster to describe their own
site. In addition, give it a few days to a week for the information to
show up...Google is aware of your request and they are working hard to
process it :)

So in summary, the Googlebot has found the contents of your website
(this is purely random and Google cannot guarantee that any given site
will or will not appear automatically) but has no information
regarding the URL itself. If you follow the steps described above you
should have no problem.

If you have trouble understanding any of the information above please
feel free to post a clarification and I will be glad to help.

Cheers!

answerguru-ga
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Subject: Re: Why does Google report that they have no information about our site?
From: robertskelton-ga on 12 Aug 2002 18:29 PDT
 
It might have something to do with using capital letters in the URL.
As the question has already been answered, I won't look into this in
depth - however, I checked another URL which uses capitals,
1stSearchRanking.com and the same thing happens:

://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=ISO-8859-1&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=www.1stSearchRanking.com

Occasionally webmasters promote their URL with some capital letters to
make it easier to read. For browsers and the domain name system in
general, the are treated the same as all lower-case. But possibly
somewhere in all the Google coding this causes a hiccup?
Subject: Re: Why does Google report that they have no information about our site?
From: alienintelligence-ga on 12 Aug 2002 21:33 PDT
 
This is a good search strategy to
check if google is understanding
the domain name.

"BusinessOL.com" +BusinessOL.com
[ ://www.google.com/search?q=%22BusinessOL.com%22+%2BBusinessOL.com&btnG=Google+Search
]

Do caps matter? No
"businessol.com" +businessol.com
[ ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22businessol.com%22+%2Bbusinessol.com&btnG=Google+Search
]

Same results.

Notice though... the www. does
matter:
"www.businessol.com" +www.businessol.com
[ ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22www.businessol.com%22+%2Bwww.businessol.com&btnG=Google+Search
]

Thought i'd share...

-AI

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