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OK I just checked it and it is now updated to the correct preview.

So it took up to approx 19 hours to change. Although bear in mind I wasn't checking it all the time, could be faster. Also note, if you have started highlighting the old version, when you go back into the saved one it will still have the old preview, so you need to start over again.

I can also confirm the preview in the data highlighter is not connected to Google's cache of the page in the index, as the old version of the page is still cached.

Thanks for the tips Thomas. I had considered doing it 'manually' but wanted to experiment with the data highlighter tool.

I'll keep on eye on it and report back the time it took Google to update to the correct preview.

Hi Catherine,

Although the page is live and can be accessed, it is actually sending a 404 Not Found status.

You can test it here:

http://www.webconfs.com/http-header-check.php I'm afraid cant help identify why it's doing this.

I want to mark up a business address for Google Local, so I thought I would use the data highlighter in WMT. However I only just added the address to the the bottom of the home page and when using data highlighter iit is giving me the old version of page to mark up without the address on.

Rather frustrating, does any body have any experience on the time frame until Google updates the page in the data highlighter?

According to this thread it's not even related to the page re caching:  Data Highlighter: Start link is pulling an old version of page

Could the pages have been blocked in robotos.txt in the past?  It can take an age for Google to re-index pages a proper after having been blocked previously.

Just to add, you don't need a page to physically exist to add a 301 redirect Kristin, so you can set the redirects from these old pages fine.

Hey Gary,

Back in the day when when I wanted Google to notice links I had built I used to ping them and it seemed to work.

Matt Cutts also touches on pinging services such as PubSubHubbub in this video where he is talking about getting Google to notice pages faster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LsB19wTt0Q#t=77 I used to use https://pingler.com/ and  http://pingomatic.com/.

Also in that vid Matt talks about links on places such as Twitter. You could perhaps build links to these pages elsewhere, but weather they would get crawled any faster depends on the site I guess.

You could also submit the URL to Google. I don't know weather it would speed crawling up, worth a go though.

Hey Mak,

One thing to bear in mind is that the canonical tag should be used on pages with the same content, if there is extra content on Page 2 that doesn't appear on Page 1, then Google could ignore the canonical tag al together:

_The rel="canonical" attribute should be used only to specify the preferred version of many pages with identical content (although minor differences, such as sort order, are okay).

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en_

Just edited it.

Google just posted 5 videos on site hacking that might be of interest:

Google Web Master Videos

Hey Dan,

If you are correctly using rel="alternate" hreflang= meta tags or sitemaps, then it shouldn't matter if you have mostly similar content. One of Google's examples is just like your question:

Your pages have broadly similar content within a single language, but the content has small regional variations. For example, you might have English-language content targeted at readers in the US, GB, and Ireland. Now, your question on IP sniffing is a slightly different kettle of fish. Google contradict themselves in their own guidlines!

On this page, Multi-regional and multilingual sites, they say:

Avoid automatic redirection based on the user’s perceived language. These redirections could prevent users (and search engines) from viewing all the versions of your site. Yet here, Introducing "x-default hreflang" for international landing pages, they say:

The homepages of multinational and multilingual websites are sometimes configured to point visitors to localized pages, either via redirects or by changing the content to reflect the user’s language. And then there is this recent video from Matt Cutts: Is redirecting users based on their location spam?

Ahh yes, <lastmod>.  How did I forget this, I'm usually such a stickler on sitemaps.   Do you have any further info on 2% tolerance Alan, or is that just your personal findings? </lastmod>

You can actually host sitemap.xml files on external domains, you just need too verify them all in Web Master tools.

Guidelines here from Google: Sitemaps for multiple sites

Bear in mind Patrick, you need to be careful with keyword cannibalisation with titling inner pages like this.

If many of your pages have 'City Web Design' in the title there could be conflict with the page that you are targeting that term for (usually the home page).  I would avoid this myself on pages such as About Us, Contact, News, Blog, etc. and probably  just something like use:

• About Us | Company Name

Hey Allan,

You only need to update your sitemaps if you are creating new pages; if you are simply updating the content on pages that already exist in the sitemaps, you do not need to update them.

Hey Ron,

I had a quick look at your site and I couldn't see an obvious reason why it might not be indexed. The page is linked to via your sites navigation and at the 1st level (meaning its linked from your top level pages such as home page), it’s present in your sitemap.xml file, isn't blocked either in robots.txt or at a page level via robots meta tags and it doesn't have a different canonical URL defined.

Might just be one of those mysteries’ things, I've worked on a site before that had some pages that weren't indexed, and we could never fathom out why either.

I did notice something, you have a strap line in your header and footer which could be seen as keyword stuffing by Google. Although this wouldn't result in a page getting indexed, its not good.

its the ‘Titanium-Jewelry.com - The largest selection of titanium rings, tungsten rings and men's wedding bands on the internet!’

And

Really amazing jewelry. And really cool people. We sell titanium rings, tungsten rings, mens wedding bands and other awesome stuff.

Lines I’m talking about.

You have also got some duplicate titles on your news pages you should look at changing.

You might want to carrying out an in depth on-site SEO audit, you may have more issues if I noticed these at a quick glance.

It all depends if there are any backlinks pointing to http://devbasu.com, as this is the only factor that should have any effect now on poweredbysearch.com.

As soon as you remove the redirect, if there are any backlinks still there, their influence will once again go to http://devbasu.com, and no longer to poweredbysearch.com.  So it depends on how many backlinks there are, how good they are and what the anchor text is on them;.

So potentiality yes, it could effect the ranking of poweredbysearch.com

Your slightly actually incorrect Devanur, the reason the wrong page is cached is because the page previously had a canonical tag referencing the other page.

If you look at the cache of http://www.thinkdigit.com/top-products/Laptops-and-PCs/top-10-laptops-124.php  ::::  Click Me

You will see in the source code a canonical tag for the other page:

http://www.thinkdigit.com/top-products/Ultrabooks/top-10-ultrabooks-153.php" />

And the info at the top of cache page confirms Google is counting the one page as the other (see attachment)

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Hey GarGar, if you would like to post a link to your site it would be easier to have a look at the issues.

Hey Thomas,

I can actually see your site on searches for both "styleblueprint" or "style blueprint", but I have just noticed you have made a terrible error.

You have blocked search engines from indexing your site by adding the 'noindex,nofollow' robots meta tag to every page.  This meta tag instructs search engines not to index the page. You need to remove this tag ASAP as you site is probably being dropped from the SERPS and that's why you cannot find your site and probably why Moz cant crawl the site.

The code to remove looks like this in your source code:

name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' /> The reason this code might be on your pages could be your settings on wordpress.  On the left menu in wordpress dashboard click 'Settings', then click 'Reading' and see if the following box is checked: 'Discourage search engines from indexing this site'.  If it is, uncheck it then check all your pages to see if the code has gone.