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    My Website is not being crawled by Google

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    • Ganesh34
      Ganesh34 @SanketPatel last edited by

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      • MoosaHemani
        MoosaHemani @Ganesh34 last edited by

        Ops my bad :s sorry! Well honestly when ever this happens with us what we usually do is to share the page on social media (Google+ and twitter preferred) and also link to external websites if possible...

        Usually with social sharing and links give Google a hint to crawl the latest version of the page... currently the page’s social value is zero (the age that you mentioned in the 2<sup>nd</sup> comment)

        I would advise you to share the website socially (why not add share button on pages) and do some quick basic link building and you will see Google will crawl the new pages of the website within few days of time...

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        • blueSummit
          blueSummit last edited by

          Try to find other quality sites with the same topical relevance and post backlinks to your clients start- and major category pages: strong link signals often make Google "revaluate" the page and the first step is to re-crawl the linked site.

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          • ThompsonPaul
            ThompsonPaul last edited by

            Ganesh, have you tried submitting some of the specific pages directly to Google for indexing?

            To help speed up the process of getting re-indexed, use the "Fetch as Googlebot" and "Fetch as Bingbot" tools in Webmaster Tools for some of the pages that aren't getting re-indexed. Once you see a successful Fetch status, click Submit to Index, and then specify  to submit URL and all linked pages. This significantly helps jumpstart indexing of pages.

            You can only do this with 10 pages per month, so choose wisely.

            Paul

            P.S. Longer term, you're still going to need to figure out if any changes you've made have interfered with Google's ability to crawl and index the pages.

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            • Ganesh34
              Ganesh34 @Ganesh34 last edited by

              Thanks Moosa, for this Great Idea...I will specifically work on this & Let see what happen next

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              • MarieHaynes
                MarieHaynes last edited by

                Had you gone a while without any on page changes?  Sometimes if Google sees that a page has remained the same for a while they'll decrease the crawl frequency.

                Have you made any changes to your robots.txt?  You've got a lot of things disallowed...this could certainly inhibit a crawl.

                Have your rankings changed?

                My guess is that this is just normal and nothing to worry about.

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                • Ganesh34
                  Ganesh34 @MarieHaynes last edited by

                  Hi Marie, I had gone through on page changes and also made changes to robots.txt file and Yes, my ranking fall down...that's why I am worried about. What can be the reason Google is not crawling the web page

                  Thanks

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                  • MarieHaynes
                    MarieHaynes @Ganesh34 last edited by

                    I'm no expert in robots.txt but you've disallowed Google from crawling the following directories:

                    User-agent: *
                    Disallow: /cgi-bin/
                    Disallow: /website-designers-uk.html
                    Disallow: /sem-smo.html
                    Disallow: /bespoke-web-applications.html
                    Disallow: /web-application-framework.html
                    Disallow: /Articles/seo-design-development.html
                    Disallow: /alquilandote
                    Disallow: /amptpp
                    Disallow: /bait
                    Disallow: /bin
                    Disallow: /brudedixox
                    Disallow: /bt
                    Disallow: /bug
                    Disallow: /cgi-bin
                    Disallow: /debamet
                    Disallow: /divinsms
                    Disallow: /fb 	
                    Disallow: /ft
                    Disallow: /ft-music
                    Disallow: /micasalla
                    Disallow: /new
                    Disallow: /orders
                    Disallow: /projects
                    Disallow: /Scripts
                    Disallow: /site
                    Disallow: /Templates
                    Disallow: /test
                    Disallow: /tiwido
                    Disallow: /alquilandote.websitedevelopersuk.com 
                    Disallow: /bait.websitedevelopersuk.com 
                    Disallow: /bt.websitedevelopersuk.com 
                    Disallow: /debamet.websitedevelopersuk.com 
                    Disallow: /ft-music.websitedevelopersuk.com 
                    Disallow: /micasalla.websitedevelopersuk.com 
                    Disallow: /orders.websitedevelopersuk.com 
                    Disallow: /tiwido.websitedevelopersuk.com
                    

                    If any of those contain content, then Google won't be able to crawl it.

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                    • Ganesh34
                      Ganesh34 @Ganesh34 last edited by

                      Thanks Marie, Now I could understand why my site is not crawling

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                      • MarieHaynes
                        MarieHaynes @Ganesh34 last edited by

                        Is that what the issue was?  That you had blocked an important directory from being crawled?  If so, I'd love to write this up in my blog.

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                        • Ganesh34
                          Ganesh34 @Ganesh34 last edited by

                          Yes, that was the issue I had blocked some important directory which contain content. Go ahead, you can write about it, this would be great topic

                          Thanks

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                          • MarieHaynes
                            MarieHaynes @Ganesh34 last edited by

                            Great!  Would you prefer that I didn't mention your actual website name?  If I can mention it, it would be in the form of a link which would be good...but I can understand if you'd like to remain private.

                            Also, did you notice any drop in traffic yet associated with this issue?

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