Problem of indexing
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Hello, sorry, I'm French and my English is not necessarily correct.
I have a problem indexing in Google.
Only the home page is referenced: http://bit.ly/yKP4nD.
I am looking for several days but I do not understand why.
I looked at:
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The robots.txt file is ok
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The sitemap, although it is in ASP, is valid with Google
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No spam, no hidden text
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I made a request for reconsideration via Google Webmaster Tools and it has no penalties
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We do not have noindex
So I'm stuck and I'd like your opinion.
thank you very much
A.
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Hello Rasmus,
i think it's ok now.
Indexing is better http://bit.ly/yKP4nD
Thank you so much.
Take care
A.
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Hi,
very interesting, good idea !!!
I think you're right.
I will tell you
Best regards
A.
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Ah!
I've found it!
You have a canonical link on each page?
| rel="canonical" href="http://www.syrahetcompagnie.com/Default.asp" /> |
This is not so good, as it is on http://www.syrahetcompagnie.com/vins-vallee-du-rhone-nord.htm AND http://www.syrahetcompagnie.com/PBHotNews.asp?PBMInit=1
If you remove that (and keep it on the start page) you should experience a whole lot of indexing in the following days
Best regards
Rasmus
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You are correct. I've just found this page:
http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html
It says:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Allows all robots to all pages.So that was my mistake. I am truly sorry for the confusion.
I will have a look at it later to see if I can find a good explanation...
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Hi Rasmus,
User-agent: *
Disallow:means that all robots can enter the site
User-agent: *
Disallow: /block all robots to enter.
User-agent: WebCrawler
Disallow:block WebCrawler robot, but other can enter
Always first line of robots.txt tells what robots can crawl a site and * means all. Second and next lines are pointing specific catalogues on a server e.g. Disallow: /admin/
So I think that is not a robots.txt issue - please ensure me
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Hi again,
Do you use Google Webmaster tools?
In Webmaster tools you can see how many URLs on your site that has been restricted due to robots.txt file. Perhaps that could give you a clue.
I would recommend that you take a look at webmaster tools. All in all there are a lot of good information in there for optimizing your site.
Best regards
Rasmus
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Thanks for your answer.
OK I will edit the file but I am not convinced that this is causing my problem because it was written that way.
Take care
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Actually your robots.txt is NOT ok. It says:
Sitemap: http://www.syrahetcompagnie.com/Sitemap.asp?AccID=27018&LangID=0 User-agent: * Disallow: Which means that all pages are to be disallowed. You should have: User-agent: * Allow: /
If you change that, it should fix it!
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