Last Google Index

[China Tea]

When was the last time Google has indexed your site?

New products I added to my retail site 2 or 3 weeks ago have NOT come up on the top serps.:roll:

While sales are slow, I have been active editing my pages - I wonder if doing so is actually a deterrent (to greater visibility) and not helping at all.

YOur thoughts?

[DSL Guy]

Hi China Tea...

I don't pretend to know the answer to your question but I too have done small edits and usually re-indexing tends to bother my traffic but only for a little while.

Adding new content or re-structuring old content is never bad in my opinion.

But... here comes my big but - use copyscape.com after you create your new content to see if you have unique content or if other sites share closely the same content as yours. The more unique yours is, the better. With copyscape, the goal is to have no one show up with content even remotely close.

Have a great Sunday in sunny SoCal... that is where you are, right? :mrgreen:

[China Tea]

Thanks a lot for the quick response . . .

Yes --- I live in the sunny but cold (to me) California . . .;-) Has been cold out here lately . . . in the 60s . . . well that may not be cold to some, but it is brrrrr-cold for me and my Asian bones. . . .:mrgreen:

[DSL Guy]

Dang girl... if it were 30 degrees here it would feel like a heat wave.

BTW - seen Al lately? The global warming CZAR?

60 is cool for CAL especially next to the coast where it tends to be cool and moist instead of cool and dry.

I hope you use copyscape at least once for the pages you are working on.

It will show you for no charge the first 10 pages it finds close to yours. You then just keep tweaking your content until no duplicates show up in the results. Then you will see Google get all googly:shock:eyed indexing your pages.

[China Tea]

I am there right now . . . I know even without looking yet that I am guilty of copying manufacturer's product description and all that but I will definitely edit pages to add my own touch . . . :razz:

Thanks Danny . . . my, years have passed at statforum . . . we are getting old . . .:mrgreen:

[DSL Guy]

:razz:
Thanks Danny . . . my, years have passed at statforum . . . we are getting old . . .:mrgreen:

Thanks for the reminder. :lol:

[tom paine]

Google tends to look kindly on sites that change and index them more frequently, if you haven't had a change for a while Google may not be looking at you 'coz you're boring'.
It's not a bad idea to freshen up your site and remember to update your sitemap.

[China Tea]

Oh . . . thanks Tom . . .

That is my passion . . . maybe even too much - - - re-arranginng my virtual display shelves and racks at my store.:mrgreen:

[steve_c]

I hope you use copyscape at least once for the pages you are working on.


Interesting .. i just did a copscape on my website and found this site w dot w dot w dot clemocreative dot com/index.html

Couldn't see any text until i looked at the source .. its hidden somehow ..

sneaky! :mrgreen:

[DSL Guy]

It really is a good tool to use and don't stop using it after you customize your content.

I even checked my home page after I mentioned it to China Tea to use and found sites coming up.

When I went to each url, it appears they had already either removed the content close to mine or were sites not even still hosted. ;-)

[webado]

Interesting .. i just did a copscape on my website and found this site w dot w dot w dot clemocreative dot com/index.html

Couldn't see any text until i looked at the source .. its hidden somehow ..

sneaky! :mrgreen:

You should report that site as spam if you have a Google Webmaster Tools account.

It should speed up their demise hoepfully.

[steve_c]

It should speed up their demise hoepfully.

Spoken like a true spambuster :lol:

I don't know if i would have the heart to report them. Its a sneaky way of hiding text though. I was thinking that text could be hidden if it was overlayed on an image. Google would have no way of knowing whether the background was the same colour as the text.

Not that i condone it of course..

Plus i read somewhere that Google have human editors that manually check out websites.. so there really is no fooling the G monster .. best to stick to the rules...

(sorry clemocreative .. this post is now front page of google for your name)

[webado]

True, though usually the opposite happens.

Say you want to use white text on top of a dark image, but you don't think to change the background color itself so it will be contrasting with the text color. This will be picked up as hidden text.

You example an be even easier if you overlay the image on top of the text.... Google sometimes can figure this out by analysing a bit the css that's involved. Though complex (or badly broken) html and css code can get it all confused.

[tom paine]

True, though usually the opposite happens.

Say you want to use white text on top of a dark image, but you don't think to change the background color itself so it will be contrasting with the text color. This will be picked up as hidden text.

Yes! I did that and Google spanked me hard.