roseau
11-04-2006, 06:27 PM
Hello All
I have spent two straight weeks studying and reading trying to sort this problem out and possibly find some answers. I have failed in concluding anything intelligent. I am hoping others here may shed some light on this.
I own a wedding site which is 10 years old. I have owned it from the beginning and have always had excellent search engine traffic. My specific keyword is quite known (popularly searched term) and my domain is the keyword.
I had hundreds of websites add my link to their site over the years and I had about 1000 indexed pages. My site has been number one in many search engine listings for a number of years. The site flucuated btw PR 5-7
I then had serious problems with the company that was managing my server. The site was down for about a week and then due to an illness, I was unable to resolve the server issue immediately. I was forced to park the domain so I could at least earn a bit of revenue until I could get back to the server and the website. The domain ended up being parked for about 9 months.
I relaunched it about 3 weeks ago. The first google crawl took about 3-4 days then after that google literally comes about every other day. The problem is:
Nothing is happening - no pages are being reindexed. Even the home page has the description from the parked page. It has not yet updated even that.
I had at the same time a joke site which was only about 1 year old and it was parked like my wedding site. This site however within 2 days of relaunching had all its pages reindexed - hundreds of them. Everything seems back to normal except my original PR - presently it still sits at 0 and I can't seem to get my positions for my keywords.
So I am utterly behooved by what is going on - how did the joke site get most everything back - although the NEW content is NOT being indexed.
What is happening with my wedding site - is this site doomed after all these years of work??? When will I notice some action??
What do I need to understand here and what do I need to do?
I am kind of upset by the wedding site bc I was offered a substantial amt of money to sell the domain but chose not to bc I always earned more with the affiliate programs. Now I am wondering if I made the right choice based on the fact that my site is sitting in limbo and earning very little.
Any comments or observations would be highly useful to me -
Thanks for taking the time to read this very long post ~!
I have spent two straight weeks studying and reading trying to sort this problem out and possibly find some answers. I have failed in concluding anything intelligent. I am hoping others here may shed some light on this.
I own a wedding site which is 10 years old. I have owned it from the beginning and have always had excellent search engine traffic. My specific keyword is quite known (popularly searched term) and my domain is the keyword.
I had hundreds of websites add my link to their site over the years and I had about 1000 indexed pages. My site has been number one in many search engine listings for a number of years. The site flucuated btw PR 5-7
I then had serious problems with the company that was managing my server. The site was down for about a week and then due to an illness, I was unable to resolve the server issue immediately. I was forced to park the domain so I could at least earn a bit of revenue until I could get back to the server and the website. The domain ended up being parked for about 9 months.
I relaunched it about 3 weeks ago. The first google crawl took about 3-4 days then after that google literally comes about every other day. The problem is:
Nothing is happening - no pages are being reindexed. Even the home page has the description from the parked page. It has not yet updated even that.
I had at the same time a joke site which was only about 1 year old and it was parked like my wedding site. This site however within 2 days of relaunching had all its pages reindexed - hundreds of them. Everything seems back to normal except my original PR - presently it still sits at 0 and I can't seem to get my positions for my keywords.
So I am utterly behooved by what is going on - how did the joke site get most everything back - although the NEW content is NOT being indexed.
What is happening with my wedding site - is this site doomed after all these years of work??? When will I notice some action??
What do I need to understand here and what do I need to do?
I am kind of upset by the wedding site bc I was offered a substantial amt of money to sell the domain but chose not to bc I always earned more with the affiliate programs. Now I am wondering if I made the right choice based on the fact that my site is sitting in limbo and earning very little.
Any comments or observations would be highly useful to me -
Thanks for taking the time to read this very long post ~!