Pages finally start to stay in Google

Yep, it's finally happened... after over 6 months since the site was submitted (I think, thereabouts anyway), about 80 pages seem to stay on google's index constantly, with about a 169 pages somewhat staying there... hopefully... it'll stay like that!

Our First News Release!

Tomorrow, 8 February 2006, our first news release is being sent out! Of course, it is supposed to be submitted to Google and other news sources, but we'll see.

Hopefully, we'll get some exposure from this, perhaps our local paper might end up finding it and put something in it. They have been notoriously bad in not putting in new business information for any businesses whose business concept they don't like. Of course they say it's because of editorial reasons, but I seriously doubt that companies that spend tens of thousands of dollars every month in advertising are the only "editorial sound" businesses to include in the paper for local business news.

Search Engine Woes Continue

Still the same problems, google indexes a page has a cache listed online. Then, it's gone. I even went so far as to check out the cached pages, and found something a bit disturbing, they aren't even current! The cached pages (that they end up removing) are up to two months old, some only a week old. However, all of the pages have been visited by the googlebot the same day, so they should have the current data.

This makes me wonder. Is google checking out my site, following links, but judging the content based on cached information? That wouldn't seem to make any sense, yet seems to be the case. Haven't heard anything from my e-mail sent to google. Surprising in a way since I normally got a reply with a few days at most.

Although the googlebot keeps on chugging away indexing all the pages on my site, yet doesn't keep them. Shame. Three pages on my site, it keeps only one of them. With the exception of "Everywhere's Local" one of the pages isn't even similar to the others text wise. All three pages are under 10% similar in content, yet it doesn't keep them. Pages are relavent to the company, and to the page itself, but still they toss it out.

It's things like that which cause problems for a company. Pages showing up as links are useful, but if there's no content cached, the page is only returned if you type in the url. If you go and type a quoted section from the page (that's fairly unique -- i.e. 0-10 hits max in a search engine) no pages are returned from us, even though the page's url is in their listing.

Annoyance runs amok

For the past week or so now, google has indexed our entire site, listing up to 150 pages! But then... sometimes under a few hours, or even upon a page refresh, they remove all the listings again.

And I'm not even talking about pages that are identical... pages that are similar only in the header, nav links, and footer, everything else (up to a page worth) is completely different. I've checked out a few other websites, ones that have content that's virtually identical on pages -- and they have all the "identical save three words" pages listed, so it's not that... Sent off an e-mail to google, to try and see if they have any reason, if they can provide a reason, since nothing in the help files says "I'm listed for one hour, but then I'm not again, but within the next five, I'm back, but then gone again -- but google hasn't used the bot on my site during the time, and it's the same pages coming and going." Nothing like that at all there. Perhaps it's a glitch? Who knows... All I do know is all the non-google search engines (major ones) have hundreds of pages indexed and listed, and 98% of our hits come from them, 2% come from google... and probably from me checking out the few timeouts that are listed (amounts to 0.0001% of the total pages).