Comments on: Bacon polenta

By: Christopher Gabriel

Christopher Gabriel — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:10:22 +0000

I have had the same issues on previous sites using the 301 redirect, but now I am not having that problem anymore? Seems like there is more than meets the eye and luck can be a factor because this was only an issue of the past and I am no longer having it.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:56:06 +0000

Matt,

I know this is an old topic, so I’m not sure when or if you’ll have a chance to read this post.

I have discovered some major problems in Google with my site being switched out for others. Not willing to disclose much about it in a public blog/forum. The number of visitors coming to my site has not been this low since the 90′s.

Unfortunately, what you wrote below doesn’t seem to be an available option for help with this issue any longer. Where is the preferred place to send information now, so that the right team sees it and can dissect what is taking place with the issue?

“Go to http://www.google.com/support/bin/request.py and click “I’m a webmaster inquiring about my website” then select “Why my site disappeared from the search results or dropped in ranking” and click continue. In the webform that you get to, make sure you put “canonicalpage” in the Subject line, then put the details in the Message body. Someone will route that message to an engineering mailing list where we dissect claims of canonicalization problems (that is, picking the wrong url).”

Thanks for your time,

Mike

By: azuka

azuka — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:58:38 +0000

Great title, It’s so easy to find this kind of issue =P My site has been proxy hijacked, there is no doubt… =( I’ve sent all the reports to google but I don’t see any change… Why Google doesn’t fix this problem? I don’t understand you (I mean, Google)… Lots of sites are stealing my ranking in google.

By: fel3232

fel3232 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 01:07:54 +0000

hi, how about enhancing the SiteMap protocol to support redirection and removal? I

By: Michael Malega

Michael Malega — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:52:41 +0000

Great information for Chef Hat. It is possible that the earliest known chefs wore a chef hat not only to keep their hair out of the food but also to indicate their position in the kitchen. This was supposedly done by the number of pleats that could be found on the chef hat….

Here is the rest of the post: http://www.cooking-food-recipe.com/Chef-Hat.php

By: Michael Malega

Michael Malega — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:02:57 +0000

Chef Apparel

All about Chef Apparel. To dispel the notion that a chef apron is similar to that of a housewife’s apron, you will find that these are considered an integral part of the chef apparel where their utilitarian look protects the wearer from the various stains and spills that can sometimes happen….
Read on at: http://www.cooking-food-recipe.com/Chef-Apparel.php

By: seo

seo — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:25:07 +0000

I’ve got many things from this article.I was just thiunking about an operational issue that sprung to mind since if this fell through the cracks, it would be a very subtle failure as basically everything would continue to work except for those folks actually doing this test.

By: Trace

Trace — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:23:01 +0000

Hi,
You can set your preferred doamin in google sitemap or do it by 301 redirection. for example I’ve redirected my domain, no-filter.com to http://www.no-filter.com . That means if you type no-filter.com your browser address bar you will end up with http://www.no-filter.com

By: Michele

Michele — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:01:41 +0000

It would appear that I have inadvertantly ‘faked’ pagerank from one of my sites to another. An added feature of what I have done is that the www version of the site has the fake PR and the non-www does not.

I have found information all over the place talking about creating fake pagerank, but other than when content is duplicated; there’s no discussion on fixing a mess similar to mine.

I temporarily parked a new domain, not realizing that would start this mess. I changed the new domain to an “add-on”, but it seems to be forever tied to my primary (where the pagerank is being stolen from). There are no links between the two sites and there is no common content.

A search in Google for the new domain name brings up the primary.

A third site, also hosted on the same account as an add-on domain has essentually fallen out of the serps for keywords it had been doing quite well for. This may be only a coincidence, but that seems unlikely.

I kept telling my webhost there was something wrong, they kept telling me to be patient; things would iron out as the new site was spidered. In the meantime, the last pagerank update transpired and has just made things worse.

What, if anything can I do to fix this mess? or Can Google do something? If anyone has any suggestions they would be greatly appreciated.

By: Ron Arthur

Ron Arthur — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:12:11 +0000

Actually, 301 redirects are also being used for fairly insidious purposes. That is directly because of monetization of Google Page Rank, and how people are selling links, domains, websites based just on page rank. A lot of people are doing 301 redirects and using the page rank of the redirectee site to sell links. There is really no good solution, unless Google wants to send bot from a previously unknown IP address, or change the pattern of its bot from googlebot to something else. The other one is obviously a nifty little tool, that one can use to check the PR. http://www.sem-faq.com/fake-pagerank-checker.php is an example of such a free tool…