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Has Google got the blues for my site?

Graham.

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Posted May 2, 2010 at 12:21PM

New in March click here, I've validated on Google both with and without www. Searches for Frank White and Frank White Band produce no results, apart from links to other sites, on Google, but readily get results on Yahoo.

I can only think that Google doesn't like the word 'blues' (pornography, drugs?) and won't display the site. I've now blanked out the word, both in text and meta tags, to see if that is the cause.

Anything else I can do to speed things up?

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Graham.

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Posted May 2, 2010 at 11:10PM

On advice from Google forum, I have added a blog click here
Please visit and click on the website link, please, to help things along.

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Graham.

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Posted May 3, 2010 at 12:08PM

Thanks, it's MS Office Live Small Business. No header tags but meta tags on here.

Google says 'No data available'.

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Graham.

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Posted May 8, 2010 at 4:35PM

now on Page 3 of Google. Give it some visits for me, lets see if it will go to page 1.

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Graham.

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Posted May 8, 2010 at 4:40PM

Blog removed.

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Ansolan

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Posted May 8, 2010 at 7:14PM

Appears my previous posts had to be deleted due to the over long links but wonder if you saw these as you deleted the blog.

That will help but may take quite a long time for everything to settle down. In an ideal world you should put in place 301 redirects from the blog to the site but don't think that's possible with blogger. One other option is to try meta refresh, second best but likely to work.

What you need to do is edit the source code (HTML) of each page on the blog by removing all content and replacing this along the lines of:

<html>
<head>
<title>Moved to new URL: xxxx://frankwhite.info/newurl</title>
<meta http-equiv=refresh content="0; url=click here" />
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>This page has been moved to xxxx://frankwhite.info/newurl</h1>
<p>If your browser doesn't redirect you to the new location please <a
href="xxxx://frankwhite.info/newurl">click on this link</a></p>
</body>
</html>

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Ansolan

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Posted May 8, 2010 at 7:18PM

You will need to replace xxxx with http - Just there to allow the link to display, although I missed one.

If you run into problems re blogger, there's a help forum at click here

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Graham.

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Posted May 8, 2010 at 10:46PM

Of Google. I guess you have to have a little patience.

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Graham.

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Posted May 9, 2010 at 11:26PM

Now at the top of first page.

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Graham.

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Posted May 10, 2010 at 12:01AM

On Firefox, page 2 on Internet Explorer.

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