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    • KevinBudzynski
      KevinBudzynski last edited by

      Streamline Metrics is correct. Add it to webmaster tools and see what they say. Also, how is your link profile? Any spammy links?

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      • JillB2013
        JillB2013 @StreamlineMetrics last edited by

        I have a lot of 404 errors which appear in Google Webmaster Tools but don't appear on my site anymore.

        About a month ago I had a problem with Wordpress permalinks and for about 10 hours my posts were crawled under a slightly different URL. During that time many posts were crawled and therefore existed under 2 different URLs. I have since fixed the problem but since Google hasn't really come back to crawl so the errors still appear.

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        • JillB2013
          JillB2013 @KevinBudzynski last edited by

          My link profile contains natural links only. I have never asked for a link or even exchanged links with anyone.

          About 4 years ago my site was hacked and the hackers linked to the content that they inserted in my forum. I have since erased the forum and disavowed the links even though over the years the spammy sites stopped linking to me anyway since their content was removed. This was a long time ago anyway so I don't think it is relevant.

          I don't have that many links although the ones I have all linked to me because I have unique content.

          My bounce rate has always been around 1%. My users seem to enjoy my content and spend time on my site. My rankings also went down very much since Google stopped crawling. I can't work out why.

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          • irvingw
            irvingw last edited by

            It's indexed in Google.com

            https://www.google.com/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=site:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yetzira.com&oq=site:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yetzira.com&gs_l=hp.3..0i10j0l3.1062.2187.0.2266.6.6.0.0.0.0.376.1539.2-3j2.5.0...0.0...1c.1.12.psy-ab.n5ejsvFaOBA&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.46471029,d.bmk&fp=eb2558ff5842e1aa&biw=1920&bih=937

            you should geotarget for www.google.co.il

            what's up with all of this code that goes on forever in your source

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            • JillB2013
              JillB2013 last edited by

              It is indexed but the problem is that most of the indexed pages are outdated and the new ones haven't been crawled.

              I would LOVE to know whats up with all of that code. I have been trying to uncover that with no success.... I have no idea where it comes from but also no idea how to find out 🙂

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              • NatanValencia
                NatanValencia @JillB2013 last edited by

                I'm sure that you checked yet:

                -No important directory is blocked from robots.txt

                -The robots.txt detected through Google Webmaster Tools match with the actual file robots.txt  (i recently haved a trouble with that)

                -New pages are well linked from home

                -New pages are in sitemaps.xml with good priority and a dayly update

                Share the content imediately with Google plus, it helps!

                I cannot be sure, but maybe if Google was much time crawling your site without finding changes, decided to crawl it less frequently

                Good Luck!

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                • irvingw
                  irvingw @JillB2013 last edited by

                  you can fetch google in WMT and googlebot will recrawl

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                  • irvingw
                    irvingw @JillB2013 last edited by

                    it looks like you figured out what that weird code was? I don't see it in the source code anymore.

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                    • NatanValencia
                      NatanValencia @irvingw last edited by

                      Maybe Jill removed it yet at your suggestion

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                      • JillB2013
                        JillB2013 @irvingw last edited by

                        It turned out that it was caused by Google Page Speed. They told me that it was fine and nothing to worry about but I just disabled it due to server issues and I guess that is what made the code disappear...

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