Date: 06/22/05 (WebDesign)    Keywords: google

I like Google. It brings in far more visitors to my site than all the other search engines and links put together! There are a couple of things which cause trouble for me and my site though.

Partial indexing, like this Google Search of The Warp Zone. My entire site was crawled and indexed by Google within a few days of the site launch, but now half of the pages have disappeared from the SERPS, and the rest have been totally stripped of their descriptions and titles. All the newsgroups suggest this is caused by DNS problems, but I'm not convinced, as I've never known my site or it's services to have any downtime. My pages were all crawled and downloaded fully, and Googlebot visits me around once a fortnight. Does anyone have any better suggestions as to why this happens to my sites (and many other people's sites) every few months?

The other problem I have, is that when my pages do appear properly in Google, they are often very out of date despite being crawled recently. Google seems to revert to old versions of my pages. It still has a cache of a page on one of my other sites, which was completely redesigned nearly three years ago! In fact it has been redesigned twice since the version which appears in the Google cache. The page in question has been crawled thirteen times in the last five months alone...

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