Search Engine Results - When Do They Update??
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@ajstringham said:
@garak0410 said:
We changed DNS providers over 3 weeks ago and made sure our website pointed to our WIX site and everything is set perfectly both on WIX and our DNS provider.
But if you go to Google, Bing. "and the rest", it will show the address of one of our secondary names rather than our main web address...
Main web name: www.pinnaclestructures.com
The google search results show: www.pinnaclemetalbuildings.com/contact.html
pinnaclemetalbuildings is an alternate web name we purchased but don't use. It brings up a cached copy of our old site before WIX.
Bing does have a link to our index page (sans www) and takes you to the WIX page.
Bottom line, if I am certain my DNS entries are all good, how long does it take the big search engines to catch up? Thanks...
Crawlers take time. Google and Bing bots should be up-to-date after three weeks but they may still not be. Bing actually gives much better results for me when I Bing "thanksaj" than Googling it. (sorry, saying when I Bing it sounds weird) I see the bots hit my page constantly. Not much you can do, AFAIK.
"Bing"...4th floor...Men's Clothing...
Thanks...yeah, I tell management and marketing we just have to wait and they don't want to...LOL
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@garak0410 Did you setup 301 redirects to each page or just one generic 301 redirect OR did you use your domain providers DNS to point to the new nameservers?
A 301 redirect to each page tells the search engines that each new page is here, and the search engines quickly make the changes.
If you just do a redirect to the new site as a whole, you will lose all your previous search engine results. End result is like starting over.
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Do you have a Google and Bing webmaster account setup for the site?
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What are you searching for on Google to get any results in the first place?
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@garak0410 said:
is pinnaclemetalbuildings forwarded to www.pinnaclestructures.com?
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Using this website I found that you have a 302 (temporary) redirect from http://pinnaclemetalbuildings.com and was taken to http://pinnaclestructures.wix.com/pinnaclestructures. This is wrong and should be fixed with a page by page 301 redirect.
You also have a 301 redirect in place for http://pinnaclestructures.com to http://pinnaclestructures.com.
Because of the 302 for the index page or home page the rest of the pages for http://pinnaclemetalbuidlings.com are live pages.
You should have a 301 redirect from http://pinnaclemetalbuildings.com/contact.html to http://www.pinnaclestructures.com/#!form__map/c24vq (which is the contact page).
Wix is not as SEO friendly as WordPress, but follow the stuff from Marketing Grader and it will help you a lot. I would start with the SEO section which deals with your image tags and unique page titles and descriptions.
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Spiceworks updates Google every few minutes.
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Do you have a Google-friendly XML sitemap?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Spiceworks updates Google every few minutes.
Isn't it vice-versa. Google choses to refresh the index every few min. I didn't know there was a way for Spiceworks (or any site) to force updates to google.
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There are ways to triggle it but no way to force it.
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Argh.
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It's Tigger's Cousin..
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@thecreativeone91 said:
It's Tigger's Cousin..
I think that's a Trigglet.
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@scottalanmiller said:
There are ways to triggle it but no way to force it.
As far as I was aware you can use webmaster tools to request a crawler visit, which you'd normally do if you've done a lot of changes, but not to request it visits every 5 minutes forever. Pretty sure Spiceworks is constantly crawled because it is a massively popular site.
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Spiceworks is not crawled, I don't think. Well it is, but not every minute. Instead they send an update signal to the Google API like any blog can opt to do (or used to at least) so that Google is aware that a change has been made and exactly what it is so that instead of crawling the entire site they just crawl the new content.
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@technobabble said:
Using this website I found that you have a 302 (temporary) redirect from http://pinnaclemetalbuildings.com and was taken to http://pinnaclestructures.wix.com/pinnaclestructures. This is wrong and should be fixed with a page by page 301 redirect.
You also have a 301 redirect in place for http://pinnaclestructures.com to http://pinnaclestructures.com.
Because of the 302 for the index page or home page the rest of the pages for http://pinnaclemetalbuidlings.com are live pages.
You should have a 301 redirect from http://pinnaclemetalbuildings.com/contact.html to http://www.pinnaclestructures.com/#!form__map/c24vq (which is the contact page).
Wix is not as SEO friendly as WordPress, but follow the stuff from Marketing Grader and it will help you a lot. I would start with the SEO section which deals with your image tags and unique page titles and descriptions.
I know I did the above and yes, weeks later, our search results are still quite a mess...I will check my settings again but was wondering if anyone had any other advice on how to get this...I mean, our default www.pinnaclestructures.com doesn't even return in search results...
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You still have a temporary redirect from the old site to the domain.wix.com address instead of a 301 redirect to the new website. Also it doesn't appear that you have done 301 redirects page to page, which is very important. This will cause you to lose all search rankings you previously had.
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@technobabble said:
You still have a temporary redirect from the old site to the domain.wix.com address instead of a 301 redirect to the new website. Also it doesn't appear that you have done 301 redirects page to page, which is very important. This will cause you to lose all search rankings you previously had.
Right...I am checking because I thought I had set that up on the WIX end...
