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I appreciate this is probably not an EE specific query but wondered if you might be able to help.

My blog was ambling along nicely until December 2006 when I had to take an enforced break from contributong content. I didn’t start adding content again until May 2007.

However, all the content I have added after May 2007 does not seem to be indexed by Google. I have gone through a thorough health check in Google’s webmaster tools and everything seems fine with sitemaps etc.

I wondered whether anybody knows whether this is normal or whether there might be a fundemental problem.

Any advice would be massively, massively, massively appreciated!!

Do you have a txt file with all of the various links in it at the root of your hosting (google refers to this as a sitemap)? If so then I would be scratching my head too. Have you embedded Google Analytics into the site? If you visit the pages in question do they register with google analytics? If so then I would not sweat it as analytics is more thorough than the webmaster tools reporting. Give me some more info and maybe we can get to the bottom of this…

M.

Thanks for the reply.

Yep got a fully functioning sitemap, accepted by Google’s webmaster tools.

Yep the pages show up in Google Analytics - no problems at all.

Have a poke around if you like, the url is http://www.iconicgifts.com

Not sure why that is happening then. I took a look at your code and did not see anything that was indicative of a problem. If analytics picks it up then I wouldn’t worry about it.

I think your right.

Maybe it’s a question of being patient with Google.

Thanks anyway. It’s always helfpul to have a second set of eyes cast over a problem…

No prob. I went back and checked my site in web tools and found that I still have old pages in cache there that have not been cleared out and that not all of my pages are registering. But they do show in analytics and the keywords are registered there.

Also you may try moving the pages that are not registering higher in the robots.txt file that you are using. Perhaps it is a simple matter of there being too much content for Google to parse through.

M.