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Default Mistake cost me loss in search engine ranking - 09-21-2006 , 04:11 AM






Hello,

I recently designed my site. Anyways, on my most popular page I somehow
managed to make a typo on the title. I just caught this mistake yesterday
when I suddenly noticed that I was not getting any hits from Yahoo or Google
on this page. Well, to my horror, I have gone from #4 on Yahoo and #8 on
Google on this page to #80 something on Yahoo and not even in the top 100 on
Google. Is there anyway to get Yahoo and Google to spider this page sooner
than later, so that they have my proper page title indexed? Any help would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Christopher D.



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Default Re: Mistake cost me loss in search engine ranking - 09-21-2006 , 05:00 AM






On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:11:59 +0200, Christopher D. <chris.73 (AT) telus (DOT) net>
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Google. Is there anyway to get Yahoo and Google to spider this page
sooner
than later, so that they have my proper page title indexed? Any help
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
None I am aware of. You may try sitemaps and <lastmod> date, but - apart
from it being logical - I have never seen it working.

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Default Re: Mistake cost me loss in search engine ranking - 09-21-2006 , 05:13 AM





Christopher D. wrote:
Quote:
Hello,

I recently designed my site. Anyways, on my most popular page I somehow
managed to make a typo on the title. I just caught this mistake yesterday
when I suddenly noticed that I was not getting any hits from Yahoo or Google
on this page. Well, to my horror, I have gone from #4 on Yahoo and #8 on
Google on this page to #80 something on Yahoo and not even in the top 100 on
Google. Is there anyway to get Yahoo and Google to spider this page sooner
than later, so that they have my proper page title indexed? Any help would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Christopher D.


When you redesigned the site, did you rename the file(s) at all?
Something like popular.html to popular-something-else.html?

If it's just a typo in the title causing the drop then at least it
should be back to normal soon. If you renamed the page then it might
take longer. You could point some external links at the page in the hope
that it will be spidered faster.

Best,

Jez.


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z
 
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Default Re: Mistake cost me loss in search engine ranking - 09-21-2006 , 02:08 PM



Christopher D. wrote:

Quote:
Hello,

I recently designed my site. Anyways, on my most popular page I somehow
managed to make a typo on the title. I just caught this mistake yesterday
when I suddenly noticed that I was not getting any hits from Yahoo or
Google
on this page. Well, to my horror, I have gone from #4 on Yahoo and #8 on
Google on this page to #80 something on Yahoo and not even in the top 100
on
Google. Is there anyway to get Yahoo and Google to spider this page
sooner
than later, so that they have my proper page title indexed? Any help
would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

What is the URL?



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