If anyone is interested, it appears Plesk sets up standard forwards using a 302 redirect. Google likes 301 redirects so you need to change this. In IIS this is as simple as going into the properties for the domain and checking the "permanent redirection for this resource" box.
I'm yet to see if this solves the problem, but I have asked Google to re-spider the site so we'll see! Cheers Will -----Original Message----- From: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 May 2007 10:32 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Possibly OT: Google stopped indexing site Hi Will, That's just something I've read about in the past, if Google thinks you're duping your content they can get a little fussy about it, so along with the redirect you really need to return a an HTTP code for all the domains bar one, to make Google know the site is a redirect. I think i got that 403 wrong though, that's the wrong status code, you probably want one of the 3xx code, take a look here and Google around a bit to find the best one http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html. Even if this isnÃât causing the problem, it's probably worth addressing. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Will Swain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 May 2007 10:23 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Possibly OT: Google stopped indexing site Hi Rob, Ahhh...yes that might be it. The client has 10 or so domains pointing to different pages in the site. We use Plesk control panel on our server to manage these - they are done as standard forwarding. No idea as to how to set up a 403 on these domains so I best check the Plesk docs. Cheers Will -----Original Message----- From: Robert Rawlins - Think Blue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 May 2007 10:13 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Possibly OT: Google stopped indexing site Just out of interest Will, How many domains do you have pointing at the site? Is it possible that you have several and they've picked it up as duplicate content as you werenâââ‰â¢t returning a 403 on the domains? Rob -----Original Message----- From: Dave l [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 May 2007 09:56 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Possibly OT: Google stopped indexing site I have seen it when they are switching their servers. A site goes away for a week or 2 then comes back. It was more prevalent when they were doing their "big brother" upgrade though. I would make sure the site is still indexed go to google and put in: site:www.yoursite.com and see if it has results and make sure you werent banned. >Hi, > >Possibly OT, possibly not - it is a CF site. One of our sites has >stopped being indexed by Google. This has happened in the last week or >two. Nothing has changed on the site code wise since March 07. >According to the webmaster tools at Google, there is a redirect error >on the homepage. There is no redirecting on the homepage so I'm >stumped. Anyone seen this before? Any pointers? > >Cheers > >Will ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJW Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:278955 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
