Jun
15
New domains were purchased and nameservers set at 6:30 am Saturday, June 4th, 2005, resolving with the hour.
Site-J
Content was put up on several pages of Site-J over the weekend of the 4th - 5th. Within 6 hours of putting up one link to the Site-J (I’ll have to check notes for just when that was), Googlebot visited, fetching just robots.txt and the index page, with just the homepage appearing in the index within a couple of days.
It’s now the 15th and all the pages of the site, 19 of them, are in the Google index and cached. The homepage has a cache date of June 14th, others have a cache date of June 11th.
Only the homepage is indexed at MSN, with a crawl date showing in the cache of June 10th.
Jun
15
Redirecting homepage with mod_rewrite & htaccess
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It seems that it isn’t just Google where there’s a problem when www and non-www are both accessed separately in a browser, but that it may just be necessary for Yahoo as well.
I just had a site that’s had the same rankings at Yahoo for a LONG time for the homepage lose those rankings altogether at Yahoo, with the homepage dropping way down doing a site: search.
I thought I had non-www redirected to www. on all sites, but the host had moved servers and I can only guess that there was a glitch, that I’d gotten by without it all along, or that there had been a change at Yahoo.
Bottom line: I put mod_rewrite redirection so that it redirects to www. and in no time it’s back ranking exactly where it was, with the homepage showing first when doing a site: search and Yahoo traffic restored to normal for those search terms.
Jun
15
Yahoo cache gone missing? Another update?
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I just noticed a bit of a switch-around with rankings for some keywords, almost like they were before the most current update. When trying to see the cached page to catch the date on them (since some changes had been made), there was no cache available for any of the sites.
I’m wondering if there’s another update on the docket, only a couple of weeks after the last one, or if one has already just happened, slipping up on us quietly. I hope it’s the case that it’s already happened and if so, that it’ll stick.