dscurlock

Sorry to say that did not work; You actually provided the answer that it was not going to work in your second statement.

Draft shows 404 page not found.
Private only shows to admin, and once logged
out, then shows 404 page not found.

I need the public to be able to see the URL/page, but
only where I decide to place the link to the page…

I did not think about that.

I will give that a try.

Thanks

I was adding content, but not the home page, but other areas of the domain ie /blog /forum, etc..

shady meaning that one would be trying to multiplate google, grey hat, black hat, etc…google knows better, I doubt they are going to penalize you for being lazy, if so, we all would be out of luck, however, it never hurts to tweak as much as you can so everything is considered unique, but I think they are not going to kill you over some duplicate tags/urls as I am sure if this was the case, most every site would be de-indexed, google has to be smarter then that, and I think they would more likely be going after the type of sites that try to multiplate their content on purpose so to trick google into giving them higher search results, but if you are not doing any of that, then I think you are fine. Add a robots.txt, and add rules to what you do not want google to look at…

This is interesting. I am looking at my XML that I submited to google webmaster for the home page:

Submitted urls: 2500
only 216 urls in web index.

Since there is no seo mod installed, and all titles/descriptions are the same (duplicates) I would bet this indexed number is low for this exact reason, so out of 2500 urls that look the same, they added 216 urls to the index, once I add the seo mod too unique titles/descriptions, then google should index much more, so they added 216 urls and ignored the rest most likely they saw it would only be duplicate content.

when I compared this xml to my article directory which is on another domain, then you see a big difference, a really big one…

Submitted urls: 448
435 urls in web index

So google has indexed almost 98% of the site?

maybe because the article/content titles/descriptions
for each article are unique to google for the site.

I do not think I would worry about that minor duplicate unless you are doing something shady, I think google is smarter then that, but it surely would not hurt to have a robots.txt and rule out anything that you do not want google to look at for sure…

The script I have on the home page is somewhat expensive, and i find it difficult to work with, even add-ons are expensive…

1: I have not content yet for my home page.
2: currently all titles are duplicate that google has indexed.

I think in my case when google stopped crawling the home page, then they also stopped crawling the blog, forum, etc..so even when I add content to the blog, then i do not think it matters right now to google, as it appears they only care about the home page, and they are not crawling the home page right now to crawl content on other pages.

Once, I add the seo mod to use unique titles/descriptions, start adding content to the home page, then I think google will start to crawl the site, and the site should take off like a rocket, but I am looking @ around $1000 to get what I need for the main site…right now, I just do not think google has a lot to do on the home page right now, and is ignoring other areas until i add more content to the home page.

so google ignores other areas of the domain that does have content?

The problem is, my site has no content at all. I think he was refering to the default duplicate titles in each thread…but surely google is smart enough to know to figure this out and would know better…I somewhat do not think this is a major factor; but if you told me that google found nothing more to index, then i would believe that more…

Since there is no content on the site, I think google just ran out of stuff that it wanted to index, and google crawler stopped visiting…

It has been brought to my attention that my site sucks, and I was told my site was nothing but duplicate content. I think google indexed what it could, and left. I have not added anything to the home page, I was adding to the forum and blog which I thought would keep google coming back since it was adding content. I guess that was not good enough.

On one of my blogs I have noticed silly pages such as About me indexed, but only pages, maybe 1-2 posts out of 50, but yet i noticed the root domain getting indexed.

I am thinking there is an issue with WP, or some SEO WP mod
is maybe causing harm, or not allowing google to index, even
though wp indexing is enabled, something is not right.

I am looking in Webmaster tools, and the crawl rate was super crawling between oct/nov to almost 7000 per day…now the crawl rate is non-existent, pretty much flat lined, and I think that is for the site as a whole, not just the blog, and since crawling has stopped, then it would make since that blog content is not getting indexed; question is why?

other then that, it shows no warnings…

The main site is shut off to registrations, maybe it has crawled as much as it could and stopped? But then again, I still post on the forum and blog, but the crawl rate has declined badly from Nov/Dec, and currently looks like its flat lined…just do not get it…

I setup Article Directory 1 week ago, heck, crawl rate is shooting up like a rocket, and appears to be climbing…

So i have a website that I have had setup for months, a forum even longer, and a blog, which is now flated lined…

and I have a new article directory crawling like hell..duplicate content rocks…

Here is something that I just thought off.

On the domain that has lost crawl, I use linkaloha for automated link building, which I do not use for any other domain, and my domains do not seem to be on a deline other then this one…I thought link building is supposed to help, not kill your domain…

could that be the problem?

OMG, big G does hate me….

Sell, Sell, Sell….

Only if they offer lots of money and I can retire…

otherwise the domain does not contain any infringement
issues…if it did, I think they would have issues with
advertising sites such as craigslist, or even sites that
allow illegal content such as YouTube…

so unless the domain is in some way illegal as to promote
illegal activies, then I doubt the domain name is the issue.

and they have no issues with porn sites…

imagine that…

I was thinking maybe google sees this as duplicate content, but I have an article directory that does get index, and the articles come from the same source, but I do watch out, and I also watch out not to accept the same article on the directory so that it does not end up on the blog also.

so it is wired that google likes my article directory, but does not seem to care too much about the articles/content on my blogs, even though they are not the same articles….

What is google webmaster supposed to do?

I do not know to much about it.

Thanks