Google Acting Weird

Skinner · Mar 9, 2010

I can't work out why google is acting strange.

I have a tracker for seeing what pages google, ask, msn, bing, etc visit, and for the last week google has visited my site twice a day but only checked out the home page.

It shows 18 hits all on / (the dates and times are within 15 minutes of my posts).

Its not indexed my home page either, normally I'd be showing a hit for site:dom.ext this far into the project.

The sites getting around 20 uniques per day, and generated around £12 comission so the sites working, but google is being odd.

I regged another new domain, the same day, and thats showing 118 hits for google on 73 pages.

Do I need to get links to some deeper URLs or is it just a waiting game ?

Oh the site is wordpress driven.

expertc · Mar 9, 2010

I have almost the same problem:

http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/domain-research/65736-overcoming-google-dislikes-any-thoughts.html

And this is still going on. Most of the traffic comes from Yahoo where my site is firmly No 1 for a month now.

In my case the domain in question was dropped in 2007. Is your domain “freshly regged”?

Skinner · Mar 10, 2010

Yeah freshly regged, no history that I can find.

I think I have solved the issue with some authorative back links to deep linked pages. Google has been all over my case around 7pm tonight, 160 pages and counting, so I think must be the links looking suspect all pointing to the home page and all appearing together

expertc · Mar 10, 2010

Nice to hear that it is solved!

I still can’t see any reasons apart from the history for my domain being disliked by them.

Skinner · Mar 10, 2010

Nothing in the index as yet, but 250 pages in total spidered now.

I've just set it to post a new product 100 times over the next 24 hours (staggered cron in csv uploader), and now google is indexing a few pages every hour. Each time a post goes the sitemap is resubmitted, so seems its liking the attention now

So deep links, and more updates are working for me at the mo.