Need to hire a tech for find out why google spider can't access my site
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Google spider can't access my site and all my pages are gone out of serps. I've called network solutions tech support and they say all is fine with the site which is wrong. does anyone know of a web tech who i can hire to fix this issue?
Thanks,
Ron
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If you're all good I'd mark the question as answered, and mark any answers you found helpful as good answers - this helps all of us here in the community!
Thanks,
Mark
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I found some errors in webmaster tools that google was saying it had in reading the pages and i resubmitted my sitemap and refreshed those queries and now it is working again. Thanks for your help everyone!
Ron
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google can read your site - they may be reading the content and changing your titles that they are displaying - instead of showing your title tag, they are showing one that they believe to be more relevant.
In Webmaster Tools, you can fetch the page as Googlebot and see what they can see - if you want me to help you via your webmaster tools account, contact me in private message and we can take it from there. But you should be able to do this on your own and see what Google can see - once you know what they can see, you can diagnose if they can actually crawl your page, or if they are rewriting the tags for other reasons.
But your 301 redirect you put in place looks ok to me.
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I recently placed a redirect in my htaccess file redirecting http://thegrooves.net to http://www.thegrooves.net to build page rank to the www version of my site. Could that be the reason that the spider can't see my title elements? Oh, and to answer your question, my site shows up in serps for a brand query but all my rankings for key search phrases are gone due to google spider not being able to tell what my site is about because it can't read the body or the page title.
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Hi Ron,
I am not an expert on topic of HTML validation, but having gone to http://www.freeformatter.com/html-validator.html and entered your URL appears that there are incompatabilities -- these may be minor enough not to be the cause at all of what you're describing). For example, there is HTML5 code in the HTML but the HTML specified in the DOCTYPE (basically tells the browser reader which version of HTML the site is using; see more at w3c.org). Try it yourself and you'll have more information which may be helpful. Even if this is not affecting SERP it's still a good idea to have your code updated so that the site pages work with HTML5 (e.g., Google +1 snippet is coded in HTML5). - Alan
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Not sure why you're saying Google can't access your site and your pages have been removed - you can see from this search query they are still in the index - https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=site%3Awww.thegrooves.net
I would definitely improve on your site - you have lots of empty pages created that are simply gallery pages, each page showing one image - I would create a gallery showing multiple images on a page - better for the search engines, better for users.
It looks like your site could use a refresh - it also doesn't look like you have Google Analytics installed - this would be a very powerful resource for knowing who is visiting your site, what they're doing, how visitors are converting, etc. I would definitely consider modernizing and fixing up your site
Mark
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Hi Ron,
I'm happy to take a look at the site here on the forum - you just need to provide us with your URL and see if we can find an answer for you why the site isn't showing up in the SERPs
Mark
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