Google has not been visiting my site

[ClaireH-184886]

Hi I am working on a site at the moment http://www.cheapflightsgatwick.com and i had the site using a different template and in the search engines for the search term cheap flights gatwick we were fourth and for the term holiday magazine we were 12th in google but now we are not even in google on the first page for the search terms. But now after changing the template in joomla our rankings have gone out of the window.

It took me about a day to sort out the site with the new template so i was not expecting any problems with the search engines but for some reason there is.

If you put into the search engine www.cheapflightsgatwick.com then you will see that google has not visited the site for four days and also it is not showing the description and instead it is showing details about joomla.

Can anyone let me know if there is anything i need to do to sort this out and why google is taking so long to visit my site

[ChaseFleming]

Often times when you change up a large amount of code on your site at once -- which is what you did when changing the template -- Google penalizes your site temporarily and it takes awhile for your site to return to the previous rankings it had.

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Diane,

What does it look like in Google Webmaster Tools for your crawl stats? Do you have any warnings in there?

The date you are seeing in the SERPs is a date Google tries to pull that is related to the article, not the date that Google crawled the page. Look at the cache of an individual page and look at the cache date for that information.

When you're in Google Webmaster Tools, crawl the site as Googlebot to see what it is seeing. There might be a setting on your site that's showing one thing to Google and another to your users.

[ClaireH-184886]

hi just checked google webmaster and it seems ok. i am not sure what is the best setting to put the crawl rate at.

the data is as follows

Time spent downloading a page (in milliseconds)	High	Average	Low
	2,163	1,064	192
Pages crawled per day	High	Average	Low
---	---	---	---
	658	18	3
Kilobytes downloaded per day	High	Average	Low
---	---	---	---
	9,580	290	15

[KeriMorgret]

Given that graph, Google is certainly visiting your site. It's just not always accurate when judging when something was published. We've published posts on SEOmoz, five minutes later I look in the SERPs, and Google says "nine hours ago".