[_] SEO - a google vanish
Chris Dawson
chris at tallhat.com
Fri Dec 11 13:09:57 GMT 2009
after many years i *finally* got round to bringing my own website up-to-date. the old site was flash based, with horrid markup and twas a pain to update content. and didn't validate. however, it had a really good pagerank! http://www.tallhat.com a few weeks ago i moved servers to linux (was on a windows server) and redid the site in wordpress. it now validates, is lovely to update and should be a lot more 'accessible'. however, it has now vanished from google! well, the site *content* has vanished from google... if you type in 'tallhat' to google you *do* get a link and description but i think that description text is coming from a very old DMOZ submission, not from the actual site, and googling for content which is definitely in the site brings back nothing... will it be reindexed soon or should i be doing something to get it back on google? can anyone suggest what has happened? i don't think i've done anything with robots.txt etc... can't think why it should have upset google... cheers chris