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tiltil
09-28-2005, 06:34 AM
Somehow it is a strange thing for me.

I looked to see how many pages are indexed in the google.

I can see there two type of results.

Results – with title and description something like this


Phone for sell – model T290
Phone for sell model T290, little used. Price 234 . Original pack.
domainame.com/detail.php?siteid=950


And results with no title and description like this ( actually to many).

domainname.com/detail.php?siteid=946

domainame.com/detail.php?siteid=1107

Can someone have some ideas why is this?

Thank you for your time.

Jamie Harrop
09-28-2005, 06:56 AM
I wild guess here tiltil, so I'm sure somebody else will have a better answer, but check to make sure domainname.com/detail.php?siteid=946 and domainame.com/detail.php?siteid=1107 actually have any content on them.

If they do, check Google's cache of them, and see if it shows any content.

Like I say, a wild guess, I may be looking in the wrong direction, so don't take my word for it.

tiltil
09-28-2005, 08:03 AM
At first I thought me, too, that it can be something with the content.
The site is a classifieds site.
In many cases there are just two words for the title and four for the ads description and it was listed in the google with title and description in the results.
In other cases 6-8 words for the title and more than 50 words in the ad descriptions and it appears just in this format on the search results

domainame.com/detail.php?siteid=1107

with no title and no description.



I can’t check Google’s cache for them, because in the listings it appears just simple like this

domainame.com/detail.php?siteid=1107
Similar pages

and no like this

Phone for sell – model T290
Phone for sell model T290, little used. Price 234 . Original pack.
domainame.com/detail.php?siteid=950 - Cached - Similar pages





Thank you for your time.

JayC
09-28-2005, 12:17 PM
It's not uncommon, especially on sites with a large number of dynamically generated pages. The second type of listing occurs for pages that are "partially indexed." Essentially that means that Google "knows about" the pages, because it has indexed links to them, but hasn't indexed the pages themselves.

They may be indexed in a later crawl. You might increase the chances of that happening by continuing to build incoming links to your site, which can help increase the priority that your pages will be given in future crawls.

tiltil
09-28-2005, 02:52 PM
Yes, the googlebot came almost every day and sometimes with more 50 hits per day.

Cam be an influence from the server for example where the site is hosted?

Maybe the server isn’t fast enough to deliver for googlebot the title and the description and so googlebot is bored and it go away just with an address for the page.

What are you thinking about it? Can be from the server?





Thank you for your time.

JayC
09-28-2005, 03:33 PM
No, it's not indicative of any problem with the server. It's just a result of the size and scope of the Web... no search engine, not even Google, is able to crawl and index every page. There are algorithmic processes that prioritize what pages will be crawled, so you have to take what steps you can to increase your chances.

One of the ways to do that is to get more backlinks, in effect raising your PageRank. Another could be to rewrite your urls to avoid having a large number of pages with something like "detail.php?siteid=1107," since there's evidence that variables in a url will reduce their priority... another is to continually make changes to your content, since Google appears to prefer sites that are "fresh."

By the way, Google's help section makes mention of this situation in point #3 on this page (http://www.google.com/webmasters/3.html).

tiltil
09-28-2005, 04:54 PM
Ok. Thank you for your time.