What did I do?

sunken · 01-08-2005, 07:54 PM

Can Google's bot read .php files? Is there something I have to do to allow it to do that? I had a site that had every one of my artworks in the image search. I just did a search and they were all gone. I kept the names the same for the various files and I kept the picture names exactly the same. I purposely left them .html and did every page by hand in order to make them more Google friendly. Is there a way to tell Google to index the entire site again? Have I been banned off Google? I used to get quite a bit of traffic via the image gallery. The strange thing there is still one image left and a lot of old title headers from the old site.

identity_00 · 01-08-2005, 09:43 PM

Google is messing around with the results again from what I have read at a few forums. Yes, .php can be indexed but with Google I have found that its a constant problem for the average website owner. All you can do is hold out and wait for them to stop screwing around and perhaps it will be back in.

best of luck

sunken · 01-08-2005, 10:10 PM

I see, guess it's just coincidence. I will do as you say and hang tight. Not in any hurry, just wanted to make sure I didn't break anything that I could fix to correct the situation. They did approve me for Adsense, so I didn't figure they banned me, but it just made me wonder what I did and if there was a way to tell the googlebot it's a newly designed site like Alexa that has a way to relook over the site from the old one.

cerebus · 01-10-2005, 03:44 PM

In my experience Google, and many other search engines, does better for /image1.html than /image.php?id=1. Quick solution would be mod_rewrite into the prior, best is often writing statics/semi-statics.

fisicx · 01-11-2005, 03:01 AM

Be patient. Google can take a couple of months to index a site fully.

And whilst it will index every page, if it can't read the 'text' as opposed to the code it will not list anything. For example, if you have a picture called 'flower.jpg' with and alt tag of 'flower' and a title 'picture of a flower' then google will have something to put into the database. If however all you have is an id and each picture only has number (001.jpg) then google has nothing to list so it won't.

Search engine spiders strip out all of the code and leave only the text during an indexing pass. No text = No SERP

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sunken Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 2,279	What did I do? Can Google's bot read .php files? Is there something I have to do to allow it to do that? I had a site that had every one of my artworks in the image search. I just did a search and they were all gone. I kept the names the same for the various files and I kept the picture names exactly the same. I purposely left them .html and did every page by hand in order to make them more Google friendly. Is there a way to tell Google to index the entire site again? Have I been banned off Google? I used to get quite a bit of traffic via the image gallery. The strange thing there is still one image left and a lot of old title headers from the old site. __________________ juegos juegos \| Your Hotel in Austria psicologo valencia

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sunken Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Jersey Posts: 2,279	I see, guess it's just coincidence. I will do as you say and hang tight. Not in any hurry, just wanted to make sure I didn't break anything that I could fix to correct the situation. They did approve me for Adsense, so I didn't figure they banned me, but it just made me wonder what I did and if there was a way to tell the googlebot it's a newly designed site like Alexa that has a way to relook over the site from the old one. __________________ juegos juegos \| Your Hotel in Austria psicologo valencia

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01-08-2005, 09:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
identity_00 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Tacoma, WA Posts: 1,212	Google is messing around with the results again from what I have read at a few forums. Yes, .php can be indexed but with Google I have found that its a constant problem for the average website owner. All you can do is hold out and wait for them to stop screwing around and perhaps it will be back in. best of luck

01-10-2005, 03:44 PM	#4 (permalink)
cerebus NamePros Regular Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 395	In my experience Google, and many other search engines, does better for /image1.html than /image.php?id=1. Quick solution would be mod_rewrite into the prior, best is often writing statics/semi-statics.

01-11-2005, 03:01 AM	#5 (permalink)
fisicx NamePros Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 43	Be patient. Google can take a couple of months to index a site fully. And whilst it will index every page, if it can't read the 'text' as opposed to the code it will not list anything. For example, if you have a picture called 'flower.jpg' with and alt tag of 'flower' and a title 'picture of a flower' then google will have something to put into the database. If however all you have is an id and each picture only has number (001.jpg) then google has nothing to list so it won't. Search engine spiders strip out all of the code and leave only the text during an indexing pass. No text = No SERP

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