Comments on: The first rule of indexing: make sure you’re letting the site be indexed. http://www.ninebyblue.com/blog/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/ by Vanessa Fox Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:07:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: vishal http://www.ninebyblue.com/blog/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/comment-page-1/#comment-873 vishal Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:16:30 +0000 http://www.ninebyblue.com/2007/07/18/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/#comment-873 one of my blog is indexed in google but the other one is not. this is indexed techsupportforpc.blogspot.com but thegreatsonunigam.blogspot.com is not one of my blog is indexed in google but the other one is not.
this is indexed techsupportforpc.blogspot.com but
thegreatsonunigam.blogspot.com is not

]]> By: aaron http://www.ninebyblue.com/blog/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/comment-page-1/#comment-866 aaron Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:39:24 +0000 http://www.ninebyblue.com/2007/07/18/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/#comment-866 Ok ok, I will check "Dean's" out tonight when the family is all tucked in their beds while visions of sugar plums dance in their heads... :) Ok ok, I will check “Dean’s” out tonight when the family is all tucked in their beds while visions of sugar plums dance in their heads…
:)

]]> By: dockarl http://www.ninebyblue.com/blog/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/comment-page-1/#comment-865 dockarl Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:52:11 +0000 http://www.ninebyblue.com/2007/07/18/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/#comment-865 Dude - that 20 minutes sounds ok - but seriously - dean's just does it automatically.. You must have too much time on your hands ;-) Dude – that 20 minutes sounds ok – but seriously – dean’s just does it automatically.. You must have too much time on your hands ;-)

]]> By: aaron http://www.ninebyblue.com/blog/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/comment-page-1/#comment-864 aaron Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:48:10 +0000 http://www.ninebyblue.com/2007/07/18/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/#comment-864 Sorry, I linked the wrong plugin, it is one called "objection redirection" that was also made by Dax and can be found on Greg Boser's blog here: http://tools.webguerrilla.com/wordpress-redirection-plugin/ I like the part in the plug-in where is says, "redirect their ass", check it out, it is very useful for 1 to 1 redirects. 195 redirects took me just 20 minutes to do, I cut and pasted the "pages not found" URLs from webmaster tools. Yes, "redirect all" also has it's uses, I used it to scramble my SEO blog when I deleted old posts. ;) Another while Vanessa is hot - I turned my "rain barrel" site into a wordpress blog and am now not sure it was a good idea, I seems to bounce around for my "keywords" much more than when it was a static site which stinks during gardening season. I notice one page sites that sell similar products doing much better and are much more stable, true? I would love to have you do a little assesement of my site Vanessa, there are questions that can never get answered in noisy places like Google groups or SEO forums that are filled with trolls looking for "clients". I will email you the url if you have the time, sometime? Sorry, I linked the wrong plugin, it is one called “objection redirection” that was also made by Dax and can be found on Greg Boser’s blog here:

http://tools.webguerrilla.com/wordpress-redirection-plugin/

I like the part in the plug-in where is says, “redirect their ass”, check it out, it is very useful for 1 to 1 redirects. 195 redirects took me just 20 minutes to do, I cut and pasted the “pages not found” URLs from webmaster tools.

Yes, “redirect all” also has it’s uses, I used it to scramble my SEO blog when I deleted old posts. ;)

Another while Vanessa is hot – I turned my “rain barrel” site into a wordpress blog and am now not sure it was a good idea, I seems to bounce around for my “keywords” much more than when it was a static site which stinks during gardening season. I notice one page sites that sell similar products doing much better and are much more stable, true?

I would love to have you do a little assesement of my site Vanessa, there are questions that can never get answered in noisy places like Google groups or SEO forums that are filled with trolls looking for “clients”.

I will email you the url if you have the time, sometime?

]]> By: dockarl http://www.ninebyblue.com/blog/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/comment-page-1/#comment-863 dockarl Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:19:20 +0000 http://www.ninebyblue.com/2007/07/18/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/#comment-863 Yep Vanessa / Aaron - Dean's plugin 301 redirects on a one to one basis. It's worth having a look at the code - it's quite novel how he gone about it. M Yep Vanessa / Aaron – Dean’s plugin 301 redirects on a one to one basis. It’s worth having a look at the code – it’s quite novel how he gone about it.

M

]]> By: Vanessa http://www.ninebyblue.com/blog/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/comment-page-1/#comment-862 Vanessa Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:53:32 +0000 http://www.ninebyblue.com/2007/07/18/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/#comment-862 It's not too late to do redirects. Even if Googlebot knows about the new URLs, the redirects will still help with link credit. It looks like Dax's plugin redirects all 404s to the home page, which is cool, but if you have old posts that used to have one URL structure and now have another, you probably want to do a one-to-one redirection from the old to the new. The plugin dockarl linked to may do that -- I'm not sure. It’s not too late to do redirects. Even if Googlebot knows about the new URLs, the redirects will still help with link credit.

It looks like Dax’s plugin redirects all 404s to the home page, which is cool, but if you have old posts that used to have one URL structure and now have another, you probably want to do a one-to-one redirection from the old to the new.

The plugin dockarl linked to may do that — I’m not sure.

]]> By: aaron http://www.ninebyblue.com/blog/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/comment-page-1/#comment-861 aaron Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:42:35 +0000 http://www.ninebyblue.com/2007/07/18/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/#comment-861 Dax made a great redirect plugin for Wordpress, I just went and changed ALL the URLs and redirected them, what a time saver. http://www.webmaster404.com/redirect-all-wordpress-plugin/ Vanessa - Quick question, Google has been trying to figure out my URLs for a week or two now (without having any 301 redirects in place). Are the 301s just initiated too late for receiving "link credit"? I know, this stuff seems obvious to Google employees and spammers but for the average webmaster, it is a head scratcher! I could have just forced most of my pages into supplementals because I didn't redirect, doh!!! Thanks Dax made a great redirect plugin for Wordpress, I just went and changed ALL the URLs and redirected them, what a time saver.
http://www.webmaster404.com/redirect-all-wordpress-plugin/

Vanessa – Quick question, Google has been trying to figure out my URLs for a week or two now (without having any 301 redirects in place). Are the 301s just initiated too late for receiving “link credit”?

I know, this stuff seems obvious to Google employees and spammers but for the average webmaster, it is a head scratcher!

I could have just forced most of my pages into supplementals because I didn’t redirect, doh!!!

Thanks

]]> By: dockarl http://www.ninebyblue.com/blog/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/comment-page-1/#comment-860 dockarl Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:20:41 +0000 http://www.ninebyblue.com/2007/07/18/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/#comment-860 Thanks Vanessa, that would be appreciated :-) Just been at a bar - Vanessa? NEVER - I don't believe it for a second ;-) Thanks Vanessa, that would be appreciated :-)

Just been at a bar – Vanessa? NEVER – I don’t believe it for a second ;-)

]]> By: dockarl http://www.ninebyblue.com/blog/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/comment-page-1/#comment-859 dockarl Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:58:34 +0000 http://www.ninebyblue.com/2007/07/18/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/#comment-859 Aaah.. Aaron - just saw your post - I think I'm right in saying that even though your new URL's will redirect just fine, if the old ones are throwing 404's you're going to lose the pagerank and anchor text value that those old pages had accumulated, which isn't what you want (especially if it is an established blog like seobuzzbox). Under these circumstances I'd suggest reversing your permalink changes, then installing <a href="http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/permalinks-migration-plugin/" rel="nofollow">Dean's Permalink Redirect Plugin for Wordpress</a>, then reimplementing the permalink changes. That should ensure that the old pages don't 404 anymore, and that your new url's get the full benefit of accumulated PR. M Aaah.. Aaron – just saw your post – I think I’m right in saying that even though your new URL’s will redirect just fine, if the old ones are throwing 404’s you’re going to lose the pagerank and anchor text value that those old pages had accumulated, which isn’t what you want (especially if it is an established blog like seobuzzbox).

Under these circumstances I’d suggest reversing your permalink changes, then installing Dean’s Permalink Redirect Plugin for Wordpress, then reimplementing the permalink changes.

That should ensure that the old pages don’t 404 anymore, and that your new url’s get the full benefit of accumulated PR.

M

]]> By: Maurice http://www.ninebyblue.com/blog/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/comment-page-1/#comment-858 Maurice Thu, 19 Jul 2007 07:56:43 +0000 http://www.ninebyblue.com/2007/07/18/the-first-rule-of-indexing-make-sure-youre-letting-the-site-be-indexed/#comment-858 :-) Remind me of the time when one of my clients managed to block *.php via robots.txt - they where trying to get cute with mode rewrite. The other thing to watch with wordpress is make sure the ping servers are setup - I normally turn of all updates while we are developing just so test posts don't get pinged and we have hada couple of sites where someone forgot to turn the ping servers back on - oops! :-)

Remind me of the time when one of my clients managed to block *.php via robots.txt – they where trying to get cute with mode rewrite.

The other thing to watch with wordpress is make sure the ping servers are setup – I normally turn of all updates while we are developing just so test posts don’t get pinged and we have hada couple of sites where someone forgot to turn the ping servers back on – oops!

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