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dockarl  
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From: dockarl
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:07:17 -0700
Local: Fri, Aug 10 2007 8:07 am
Subject: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign?
Hi folks,

Website:www.backlesslingerie.com

I probably 'over optimised' this site towards the end of last year,
and fairly convinced it's been under a penalty since around March.

Recently after changing the content of the site, I issued a
reconsideration request - very detailed.

A couple of weeks later, the site shifted back to where I'd usually
expect to see it.

As of three days ago, traffic has dropped substantially again, and a
site: search shows the index page not in the index at all, whereas a
search for www.backlesslingerie.com returns the index page.

I've heard rumours here that this is indicative of a penalty. Would
love your thoughts

doc


 
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From: Phil Payne
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:14:17 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign?
I've seen a dozen or so sites with the home page missing from a site:
search.  I'd love to know other people's opinions.

Perhaps we should collect a list - pick a thread to post all of them
to.


 
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From: roysnj
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:44:44 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign?
Hello
I agree with Phil ..
I also looked at the site. Very nice..er...er...er.. picture. LOL ..
Your home page
I do not feel it is over optimized.
There is no spam
It is well structured seo wise.
I did find some bad links at
http://www.bad-neighborhood.com/text-link-tool.htm
you migth want to check that out. the site is not that accurate
though.

Roysnj

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From: dockarl
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:19:00 -0700
Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign?
No, it's not over optimised NOW - I fixed that - but if you check the
wayback machine you'll see I went crazy trying to optimize for the
term Lingerie - check about Jan this year.

Bad neighborhood? Na.. don't think so.. even if bad neighborhoods have
linked to us (we did get a link from a porn site once - man... the
traffic we had for a few days) - but we've never linked back - our
links are earned.

Cheers,

doc

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From: abracadabra
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:54:41 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign?
Have you checked up on the "health" of the sites
on your outbound links lately?
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From: dockarl
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:19:42 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign?
Yeah. they are fine.

M

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From: Robbo
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:27:25 -0000
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign?
Hi dockarl

Do you think it might help if you used a single way of referring to
your Homepage?

You currently have [http://www.backlesslingerie.com/index.html] as
well as [http://www.backlesslingerie.com/].

Completely irrelevant to your actual question, but in the advert at
the bottom right of the Homepage do you mean "More discrete than a
brief" or "More discreet than a brief"?

Maybe it's just the peculiarities of my set up (MS Windows Vista) but
the video would not run under either Firefox 2.0.0.5 or IE 7.

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From: dockarl
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:30:20 -0700
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Subject: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
Oh yes... I'm totally aware of the canonicalization issue and need to
fix that.

The discrete... makes my skin crawl.. Canadian graphic designer that
couldn't spell.

Unfortunately fell of the face of the earth - anyone got any idea what
font that is so I can fix it?

M

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From: dockarl
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:33:22 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
Haha...

I just used the 'bad neighbourhood checker' and the links it is
worried about are totally black hat sites like:-

www.vanessafoxnude.com

and

www.bladam.com - the blog belonging to none other than our own Adam
Lasnik

Bladam, of course, was the worst offender, with anchor text like 'Non
Sexual Healin" and "The Sexier Multimedia version"

Yikes!

doc

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From: Robbo
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 23:44:51 -0000
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
dockarl

You have got several instances of 301 redirection of internal links
on
http://www.backlesslingerie.com.au/

Do you have the same on http://www.backlesslingerie.com/ ?

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From: dockarl
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:09:47 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
Robbo,

The only 301's I have on .au are to correct cnonicalization.

I do have canonicalization redirects on .com as well, for the same
reasons.

doc

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From: dockarl
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:16:22 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
re: the video would not run. do you mean you couln't hear audio?

That's deliberate.. I muted it because the model possibly should stick
to modelling rather than public speaking. A rather high timbred voice
- didn't want to scare the living daylights out of people that had
their speakers on.

M

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Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:42:01 -0000
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
According to Xenu, you have a over 50 internal URLs being redirected;
as these URLs appear on multiple pages, that produces several hundred
301 and 302 redirections.

Some of them involve MULTIPLE redirection, for example:

http://www.backlesslingerie.com/account.html
 Chain response with result HTTP status code 200 (OK) for
http://www.backlesslingerie.com/cookie_usage.html
http://www.backlesslingerie.com/account.html
   redirected 302 Found to http://www.backlesslingerie.com/index.php?main_page=login

http://www.backlesslingerie.com/index.php?main_page=login
   redirected 301 Moved Permanently to http://www.backlesslingerie.com/index.php?main_page=cookie_usage

http://www.backlesslingerie.com/index.php?main_page=cookie_usage
   redirected 301 Moved Permanently to http://www.backlesslingerie.com/cookie_usage.html

http://www.backlesslingerie.com/cookie_usage.html
   success 200 OK

Robbo

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From: Robbo
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:58:48 -0000
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
No, I mean no video at all.

On machine A - desktop PC with Vista, Firefox & IE & Real.
FF says I need an additional plugin, I click install, it says Windows
11 is available, I click to install, it says Windows 11 is not
available.

On machine B - laptop running XP Pro and Firefox.
A popup error message appears: "Illegal operation in plugin.  The
plugin performed an illegal operation."
After clicking the exit/cancel numerous times, it eventually offered
to show the movie in an external player and after downloading and
clicking more buttons it did run in Windows Media Player.

I'm not saying there is anything wrong with your site.  But whatever
the cause of the problem, this is my user experience.

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From: dockarl
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:16:40 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
Bloody zencart...

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From: dockarl
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 23:51:56 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
Ok.. so, yup, before someone chimes in to let me know the site doesn't
validate. I'm aware of that (I would love to change it to a table-less
layout if I had the ability or time to rewrite zencart with a
tableless design), I'm now aware that zencart uses a far too complex
system of redirects (although I think you'll find that's to do with
the appending of session id's, which won't happen if you crawl as
gbot), I'm (now - thankyou Robbo) aware that the video doesn't show to
everyone.

All good advice, but the original question still remains.

The site has been much the same for the past two years - only recently
have I seen this new 'problem' where the index page is not indexed..

So back to the original question. Why does the index page turn up for
a search for the url, but is nowhere to be seen in a site:search? Is
this indicative of a penalty, or is it a 'googlebug'? Does anyone have
any thoughts about that?

doc

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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:14:28 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
Hey Doc!

Is this perchance the missing page?
G o o g l e's cache of http://www.backlesslingerie.com/ as retrieved
on Aug 8, 2007 02:29:37 GMT

I see it at SERP #72  using site: on google.com.

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From: webado
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:17:13 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
That's  Firefox for you LOL

The eternal search for plugins that aren't there or don't get
installed.

It probably refers to WIndows Media Player 11 not Windows 11.

Is that video  a wmv encoded to a  variable bitrate? That's not
compatible with all installations.

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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:23:38 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
Doc, you may want to use a different method to embed your video, which
will be valid . Might even help with misisng FF plugins - though
that's a chronic FF and Netscape problem.

Check out my tutorial on embedding WMP:
http://www.webado.net/tutorials-embedding-video.php

Other alternatives to using embedded WMP are converting the vieo to
flash and embedding flash which has wider support across browsers.

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From: dockarl
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 01:48:38 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
Webado -thanks for your excellent tutorial - I'll go flash as you
suggest. It's weird that some firefox's are having probs - no such
issues from this end.

Abra - you are absolutely 100% correct - thankyou - it is there, just
buried really really deeply. That doesn't seem normal to me.. I wonder
why it could be?

You'll also notice a whole lot of extraneous stuff indexed - a word of
warning if you're using the google python based sitemap generator - be
careful about using your server logs as input - it's convenient, but
if you're not careful to robots.txt out info you don't want indexed,
it will be. It's possible to get things indexed that have zero
incoming links (externally or internally) with sitemaps.

Cheers,

doc

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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:03:24 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
For flash I also have a similar tutorial on embedding swf

I have found a good tool for encoding a wmv to flv ( Free Riva FLV
Encoder 2.0) and another one that provides a swf player for it (http://
www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_Media_Player ) . The final resut can
be embedded using the very same flash embedding methods like Satay
method or the better swfobject method.

Rumor has it even better scripts are in the works, but the dust hasn't
settled on them yet.

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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:45:11 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
Glad to help doc :)

As far as where the page is under site: I have seen
much "juggling" around after the "Supp" tag removal.
It used to be so clear that when you did a site: the main index
pages were at the top with the supps at that bottom with a usually
clear border between the two. Not sure that is the case now.
Yes it still seems to be ordered by "popularity" but also looks
like a little semantics added in for flavor.
I don't think the dust has settled on this yet so the
analytics keep changing. Maybe one of the great minds
here can get a good working understanding but then,as
always, when you think you have it it changes again.

Maybe compare the number of hits to the home page
and the inner category and product pages.
Maybe then add in some link data as well as some
long tail or popular searches and see  if there is
any correlation.

btw - Instead of abreviating to abra, you can use Tim
if you wish.

Abracadabra
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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:09:50 -0700
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
Hehe.. thanks Tim.. Dude, I always appreciate help.

Definitely with this site 99% of all hits, SE or otherwise, come via
the index page.

Ciao,

M

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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:49:29 -0000
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign - BLADAM a bad neighborhood?
> Definitely with this site 99% of all hits, SE or otherwise, come via
> the index page.

So you're saying that it's your main value page, right? Haven't we
seen this pattern before? :-)

Where do your links come from? How directly connected is (or was) it
to your utheguru site?

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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:00:21 -0000
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Subject: Re: site: search doesn't return index page, search for product does - penalty sign?
doc

I've adapted a copy of your advert (discreet) and put for you at:
http://www.waylink.co.uk/images/backless_lingerie_ad_1.jpg

I hope it is usable, at least until you get something more precisely
what you want.

Robbo

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