I am thinking about posting my site now rather than wait until it’s totally finished. We will be adding content over the next couple of months, but I though it might be a good idea to get it on Google ASAP. Is this a really bad idea?
Hi,
We put up a new web site about one week ago. We are usually crawled at a medium rate. We put out at least 8 to 10 press releases a month, have several rss feeds, etc.
How long do you think its going to take them to recrawl the whole site? We re-optimized the major product pages, added a completely new section, and added other stickiness kinds of things. I don’t want to start tinkering with pages until I can be confident the site has been crawled and reindexed.
Thanks in advance.
DJKay
When researching keywords, one of the first steps I take is to look at the total number of web pages that contain my target phrase, I realize this is not an indicator of who is actually competing but it helps me to get an overview.
Recently I noticed that the number of pages found in the index for one phrase increased dramatically. I can understand a sudden drop due to an index purge… but a sudden increase?
Within 2 months this phrase went from 430K to 9M, then 2 weeks later to 58M (broad match). Excluding the possibility of a sudden popularity increase, what are some other reasons for this seeming inconsistency?
I went to my home page to check some things and something strange happened. After a few seconds all the pages greyed out and I couldn’t click any links. But not the whole page, only the top part. I can scroll down and everything looks normal. This happens only with my computer, only with firefox, and only my home page. The same pages on my computer works fine but not the ones I have uploaded. What could it be? I have restarted firefox but that didn’t help.
http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=877
(a) Website Design company puts links to all their customers websites on their homepage (PR7).
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All of their customers have a link to the Website Design company on EVERY page of their websites.
© One of their customers (a competitor of mine) has gone from a Google PR of “0″ to now a PR6! And if you rank my website for SEO (using best practices) on a scale of 1-10 at 10 (for argument’s sake), my competitors website would rank a 1 or 2. But they have moved ahead of me on a few keywords.
Most of this designer’s customers have PR4-PR6 and it’s very clear why. Now I know that PR Rank isn’t supposed to mean anything but clearly it does in a situation like this. I read comments about a year ago by Matt Cutts that Google doesn’t mind this practice but to me it’s cheating. Is there anything on the horizon that would get this practice penalized? Or should I just have this company host my site too??
Okay, normally, I’m a gentle, good-hearted person who goes with the flow. But today, someone’s ticked me off and I need to sound off before I take my phone and slam it into the desk until it breaks. One of my super pet peeves are “experts” who make specific claims that sound to me completely idiotic but upper management hears it and thinks, “Wow…they’re so smart. We need to do what they say.” 
My boss went upstate to meet with a partner and their SEO “expert” advised him that Google sets aside the 2, 3 and 6 spot in their Top 10 listings to video. Yes folks, it’s a miracle. Someone has in their infinite wisdom broken the Google algorithm and found this wonderful tidbit of information. When I tried to argue the validity of this decree, my boss assured me that the “expert” proved it to him. 
Yes and pigs fly on Sundays! Okay, I can make a ton of statements and find Google results that “prove” my statements but it doesn’t make it true. I’m just finding results that fit my particular take on the universe. Now, I know that engagement objects like video are important since the advent of Universal Search; however, without extended amount of research I wouldn’t make a decree unless I had a heck of a lot of research to back me up. Oh, and folks, the algo is always changing so freaking stop chasing your tails and stick to best practices.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Okay, I feel better now. Now I can go back and figure out a way to constructively deal with this idiocy. Hint, hint, any suggestions would be helpful.
Hi,
I’m about to launch a website that has a large number of pages, around 100,000+. I have never launched a site of this size before and I’m not sure how Google will react. Will Google index everything early on or just start with a few pages and slowly build up. Are we going to need decent link popularity to get all the pages indexed? The linking structure of the site is pretty good, using multiple category structures and sitemaps.
Jake
Hello all…
I have read about the recent release of .tel domain names.
It seems like a good idea see: technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article5643513.ece
Question is who should get them and what supplier would you recomend. I can’t find the extension available through my normal domain name providers and don’t know which companies are reputable.
Regards
Justin
Hi there,
We have a client that has 2 websites, a customer facing commercial site [site1] and a site for business [site2]. The names of these sites are very similar and I have made a terrible mistake by uploading the homepage of [site1] as the homepage for [site2]. I didn’t realise my error until 2 late… after Google had crawled the new content for [site 2] and subsequently chose to return the [site 2] homepage instead of the [site 1] homepage when doing a search for the company name of [site 1]!
I was wondering, what, if anything, I can do to help get this problem rectified and to get [site 1] displayed instead of [site 2]? Do I just need to wait for Google to re-crawl the restored [site 2] homepage? This could take a while because it is rarely updated and has low pagerank.
I also had to setup a meta redirect from [site 2] to [site 1] as visitors searching for [site 1] certainly don’t want to be taken to [site 2]
Many thanks for your help!!
Tom
Hello,
I am planning to change the domain of my website
The difference between the new and the old domains is too big but the name of the website will be the same
I want you to help in set the old domain to transfer to the new domain (the direction)
for example I have these pages in the old domain :
I want to setup the old domain to transfer the visitors that come to the old domain example.com
change all of the old directions of the old domain to the new directions of the new domain :
How can I do that without loss the relation of my website (with the old domain) with Google and the other engines
I hope you understand me
and please help me if you have experinces about this process
Best wishes
