A common question folks ask is if their site has been penalized by Google and it's Googlebot. It does happen if webmasters use too many tricks to promote their website and if and when Google catches on to what they're doing. Things like hiding links, overloading pages with keywords, [Read the rest of this article...]
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Yes, I know the previous post published without being finished. I'll have to fix that some time soon.For some strange reason, I can't get to Google today. No Google search, no Google Adsense, no Google webmaster tools, no GMail which really is an issue. Nothing.So anyway, I still have things [Read the rest of this article...]
Would someone care to explain to me why every time I or anyone else on this site searches for something, Google's got to come along and search for it as well? [Read the rest of this article...]
Check out the screen capture to the left. 21 minutes after making my post/plug about Brandon's Smile Ministry, it's shown up in Google's database.That's 21 minutes, folks.Not 21 weeks. Not 10 weeks. Twenty. One. Minutes.Heck, if you search for the ministry, I'm already listed there as well, right under [Read the rest of this article...]
Google hasn't indexed my site since April or so because it can't see my robots.txt file for some reason. But yet Google Reader doesn't have any issue with pulling a feed from this site. And MSN and Yahoo and the rest don't have any issue either. It's really annoying. [Read the rest of this article...]
I was recently checking with Google's Webmaster Tools to see if I was having any issues with this site. I discovered that every single page had an " robots.txt unreachable" error attached to it. Gotta admit that I was rather surprised when I saw that. I hadn't put in a [Read the rest of this article...]
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