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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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