Mar 13 2008

Google Webmaster Tools Problem

Jianjun
Published by Jianjun at 12:05 am under Internet,Software

[Bloglines] [del.icio.us] [Digg] [Facebook] [Furl] [Google] [Ma.gnolia] [MySpace] [Newsvine] [Reddit] [Sphere] [StumbleUpon] [Technorati]

Recently I found Google behaves strangely. It seems that there have been some inside changes going on.

First there were strange statistics in Analytics – I had three or four days’ visitor count fixed at 40!! That’s impossible. Later I realized that they’d changed the tracking code. Although you could still use the legacy one, you are advised to adopt the new code to experience some new features (if any).

I found Google started dropping my pages from its index. What a cool thing for a new blog! That explains the sharp drop of new visitors coming to my blog. Of course I’m not punished. If they punish me out of no reason, I’ll sue them in the Federal Court! :evil: Haha. A guy copied at least 4 web sites’ content and created dozens of satellite sites (on those free blog sites) linking to his main site got high rankings in every Chinese translation-related search. But such a spammer is not punished by Google.

Google webmaster tools tells me both my sites are not verified. That’s odd. They were verified a long time ago. So I uploaded again the verification files and added mega tags as Google required, but the webmaster tools returned:

Verification status: NOT VERIFIED
We were unable to verify your file due to a server timeout.

Er… This is not true. My site is running fine. I searched on the Internet and found similar problems by other guys during March. Considering all of the above strange things, I guess it’s Google’s problem, some technical glitch.

Thanks to Google, I wrote one more entry for my blog.

Subscribe, Digg or Furl it...
SubscribeBlinklistBloglinesBlogmarksDiggdel.icio.usFacebookFurlMa.gnoliaNewsVineRedditStumbleUponTechnorati

2 responses so far

2 Responses to “Google Webmaster Tools Problem”

  1. # Volkanon 28 May 2008 at 10:54 pm

    I use both G.Analytics and WebMaster Tools. I had a web site www.A.com (I don’t want to give whole long names). I moved the whole site content to www.B.com, and stopped A.com.

    Content of A.com was very well indexed by google, and search results were fair to me.

    Then I requested content removal for A.com because there was no A.com anymore. I waited for google to index B.com. (I also manage B.com in Webmaster Tools). B.com was also indexed in a couple of days. Everything looked fine.

    Almost one week later, B.com no longer appeared among search results. There must be something wrong. A.com still appeared in search results :)

    I don’t know the exact reason for this. Does google find duplicate content to punish my B.com? Or, does google have a bug while removing the content of A.com upon my request? I applied to google for reconsideration of B.com, still waiting for it to be indexed.

    Reply

    Jianjun reply on May 28th, 2008 11:07 pm:

    Hi Volkan,

    I am not sure if it’s a Google bug or the result of a recent Google dance. But a duplicate content penalty is unlikely in this case (http://www.yeasir.com/blog/2008/05/06/google-seo-duplicate-content/).

    Maybe you could wait for a couple of weeks to see how things are going. Have you tried a permanent redirection from site A to site B, then request deletion from Google index the old results?

    Reply

Trackback URI | Comments RSS

Leave a Reply