VisitSweden indexing error
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Hi all
Just got a new site up about weekend travel for VisitSweden, the official tourism office of Sweden. Everything went just fine except som issues with indexing.
The site can be found here at weekend.visitsweden.com/no/
For some weird reason the "frontpage" of the site does not get indexed. What I have done myself to find the issue:
- Added sitemaps.xml
- Configured and added site to webmaster tools
- Checked 301s so they are not faulty
By doing a simple site:weekend.visitsweden.com/no/ you can see that the frontpage is simple not in the index. Also by doing a cache:weekend.visitsweden.com/no/ I see that Google tries to index the page without the trailing /no/ for some reason.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/
Any smart ideas to get this fixed or where to start looking?
All help greatly appreciated
Kind regards
Fredrik
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Oh my God Fred!! the weekend sub-domain has been completely blocked from being crawled using a robots.txt file sitting in the root of the sub-domain.
http://weekend.visitsweden.com/robots.txt
User-agent: * Disallow: / Please remove the '/' from there **immediately**
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Hi Fred,
I just copied my first response:
Here is your redirection setup:
http://weekend.visitsweden.com/ being redirected via 301 to
http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no being redirected via 301 to
http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/
So, I would suggest you to remove the interim URL without the trailing slash after 'no'. Let the original homepage, http://weekend.visitsweden.com/ also be redirected to http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/ (the one with trailing slash) via 301.
So your redirection setup should be as follows:
http://weekend.visitsweden.com/ - via 301 to - http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/
Essentially, we are eliminating the redirection loop here. Please try this and post back.
Best regards,
Devanur Rafi
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Hi
Again thanks for your quick response. Unfortunately we still have the same issue even though we have performed many checks and tests. Any more smart ideas on how this can be corrected?
Regards
Fredrik
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Hi Fred,
Please wait for at least 2 weeks for the change to reflect in Google. This happens and depends on how popular your site is in terms of link profile, DA, PA etc..I still see "http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no" (without trailing slash) in Google's index. Let us wait for sometime. Nothing to worry about it.
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Hi again
The weirdest this is that it does not seem to update. When I do a site:weekend.visitsweden.com/no/ the page is still nowhere to be found.
https://www.google.no/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:weekend.visitsweden.com%2Fno%2F
Any ideas?
Again thanks
Fredrik
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Hi Fred, now its perfect. It should soon reflect in Google and you will be able to see it in site: search. Good Luck my friend.
Best regards,
Devanur Rafi
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Thanks for the great input! Have now tried to do the changes as per your suggestion.
Does it look better now?
Again thanks
Fredrik
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Dear Fred,
Here is your redirection setup:
http://weekend.visitsweden.com/ being redirected via 301 to
http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no being redirected via 301 to
http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/
So, I would suggest you to remove the interim URL without the trailing slash after 'no'. Let the original homepage, http://weekend.visitsweden.com/ also be redirected to http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/ (the one with trailing slash) via 301.
So your redirection setup should be as follows:
http://weekend.visitsweden.com/ - via 301 to - http://weekend.visitsweden.com/no/
This should fix the issue. Essentially, we are eliminating the redirection loop here.
By the way, both the URLs, with and without trailing slash appear in Google when searched with the following queries:
Best regards,
Devanur Rafi
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