sfutterer
Friend
http://www.theicpm.com is my homepage. Previously I was ranked #2 in Google results for various keywords, but now my homepage is not even indexed. How can this happen? What do i do to correct it?
Meta tags call for index, follow
There’s nothing blocking robots to the root (several sub directories are blocked)
Site is built on Joomla 1.0.15
I just re-checked my sitemaps in webmaster tools to find that the homepage is tagged with a 404 Not Found error. I’m not sure how. MSN is indexing the site just fine.
Results of the http://oyoy.eu/ server-headers test
Tested at 21.01.2009 14:54:42 / from 24.126.85.123:
URL=http://www.theicpm.com
Result code: 404 (NotFound / )
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:57:09 GMT
Server: Apache
Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Set-Cookie: [[removed]]
Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:57:10 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
The hosting provider, GoDaddy, responded to my inquiry about this error with: This is something with the Joomla installation. If you replace the index file with a non-Joomla file, the http header responds with 200.
What the heck do I do to fix this?
wooohanetworks
Friend
Some years ago I would have said it is the Google Dance as some referred to it. At any time the numerous servers of Google were synchronized and “danced” so the indexed sites were suddenly looking like not more listed, not more indexed, rank lost, all that but that was only for a day or so anytime the Google Dance occured and than even came up with the new and mostly better ranks etc…
It is said that this problem was solved by Google due changes in the infrastructure of the servers. In any case I would recheck again or contact Google when you used paid services, otherwise they probably will not answer.
GoDaddy’s answer tells you only that you whether just changed to Joomla and the prior site was listed with another index page or that they do not know what they say when the site was already a Joomla site as why should the index page be changed unless you changed template, system etc..
To fix it, rebuild page rank, with paid Google services contact Google…
1 user says Thank You to wooohanetworks for this useful post
reachthesky
Friend
hey excellent explanation, no wonder why one of my clients had a similar problem with their indexing
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