Googlebot Problem

  • Hi, I’ve had trouble with two blogs located in separate subfolders in my website. The first one didn’t really get any attention due to in part that it never (as in NEVER) got crawled by Googlebot, although the rest of my site is. Now, I closed that first blog thinking that I probably made a mistake, but the same thing is happening with my new one. When I searched for it in Google, all it does is display the URL, no title, no snippet, no nothing. This also happens in MSN’s search. I have installed WordPress in top-level domains and have had no problems with them with regards to crawling, in fact, they are doing quite well. So, does this have something to do with being located in a subfolder (e.g. https://www.domain.com/blog)? My main suspect is the .htaccess file, since WordPress makes its own and I do have another htaccess located in the root folder. What should I do to reconcile both? Or am I barking at the wrong tree? Thanks in advance! ??

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    More than likely, you will have to ask Google for help. But, if you would kindly supply us with a URL, we may be able to investigate the problem for you.

    It’s gotta be linked to in order to get in the index. Also, anything in a subdirectory gets ranked lower than something in a root directory. So, it’s quite possible that either you aren’t well enough linked or, if it’s a brand new site that suddenly popped up with lots of incoming links, you’re sandboxed.

    Thread Starter dwer

    (@dwer)

    Yes, of course it’s linked. The site in question is pretty well established, with good PR on many pages. Even my message boards are picked up by the bot regularly. It’s just these blogs that get ignored for a reason I don’t understand. I might as well write Google about it and ask them to check it out. Do you guys think it has something to do with htaccess? I know that mod rewrite can sometimes screw up some pages. Thanks again.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    If you would kindly supply us with a URL, we may be able to investigate the problem for you.

    What is the PR of your unloved blog? On what topic?

    Thread Starter dwer

    (@dwer)

    Oh sorry. Here’s the URL: alleba.com/buzz … it used to be a static page that I halted a few years back. It currently has a PR of 2 due to the sites that still link to it up till now. As for its topic.. basically about what people are searching for and I write about them. I appreciate any help on this matter.. thanks!

    Try submitting a sitemap. It should help. Also check if you have any robots.txt with strange rules.

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