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Joined: 23 Sep 2009 Posts: 1378

There is a problem with the set up of the site. The homepage has zero page rank and none of the other pages that I've checked are even cached. The site needs to be fixed so that people can find it easily.

Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 75

I haven't had much time lately to maintain this site but if you have any suggestions, feel free to post them.

Joined: 23 Sep 2009 Posts: 1378

Best to start by setting up a Google Analytics account and adding the script as an include statement to all pages using "require once". At least then you'll be able to see what is going on with the pages and if there are any html or other problems hindering its popularity with Googlebot.

Joined: 23 Sep 2009 Posts: 1378

One big no-no that this site is guilty of is the "don't use tracking code to track bots through the site". I see it is doing just that so you might want to turn that feature "off" ASAP.

Joined: 23 Sep 2009 Posts: 1378

didymus wrote

One big no-no that this site is guilty of is the "don't use tracking code to track bots through the site". I see it is doing just that so you might want to turn that feature "off" ASAP.

Googlebot is still showing up as a "Registered User". You need to turn that tracking feature off. It is affecting your rankings.

Joined: 23 Sep 2009 Posts: 1378

Pilgrim:

1) You should really get a Google Webmasters account set up. It is free: www.google.com/webmasters/tools

2) The site MUST stop tracking bots through the site. This setting is killing you.

3) The primary problem that this site has at this moment is that pages are able to be called form different url's, like these:

http://www.departout.com/index.php
http://www.departout.com/

Both call the homepage. YOu need to make sure that this does not happen by setting rules in the .htaccess file in the document root directory of your hosting account. Something like this to start:

########################

Options -Indexes
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on

## COMMAND TO REDIRECT departout.com TO www.departout.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^departout\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.departout.com/$1 [R=301,L]

## COMMAND FOR MANAGING CASE WHERE index.php IS CALLED
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^index.php$\ HTTP/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^index.html$ / [R=301,L]

Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 75

The bots to control the access level of the search engine bots.

Having index.php on your site isn't actually a big deal as you'll find many commercial sites do this. I'm not aware of Google penalizing anyone for doing this. It's only when you have redirects from unrelated sources things are problematic.

I have a Google Webmasters account, but haven't added this site yet.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Joined: 23 Sep 2009 Posts: 1378

Pilgrim wrote

The bots to control the access level of the search engine bots.

You get penalize for using tracking scripts.

Pilgrim wrote

Having index.php on your site isn't actually a big deal as you'll find many commercial sites do this. I'm not aware of Google penalizing anyone for doing this. It's only when you have redirects from unrelated sources things are problematic.

Trust me, Pilgrim, I know what I'm talking about and you are being penalized. It is considered duplicate content. Both url's rendering the same page with different url's in the address bar is a no-no.

You have zero page rank on departout.com and less than 0 (ie nothing) on departout.com/index.php and these are two of the main reasons.

Joined: 23 Sep 2009 Posts: 1378

The homepage isn't even being cached by Google. This is about as bad as it gets.

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didymus wrote

The homepage isn't even being cached by Google. This is about as bad as it gets.

Google still does not have departout.com homepage cached, and has PageRank set to 0.

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didymus wrote

The homepage isn't even being cached by Google. This is about as bad as it gets.

Google still does not have departout.com homepage cached, and has PageRank set to 0.

It is even worse because I just noticed that duplicate content is also being served up for www.departout.com and departout.com. So, for example, all four of the following links are serving the same content:

http://www.departout.com
http://www.departout.com/index.php
http://departout.com
http://departout.com/index.php

This is SEO 101. Needs to be fixed, like I explained previously.