Comments on: Google Canonical URL Problems (and Link Disappearance from SERP-s) http://seolutions.net/blog/google-canonical-url-problems-and-link-disappearance-from-serp-s/ search engine obsession Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:56:56 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: laki http://seolutions.net/blog/google-canonical-url-problems-and-link-disappearance-from-serp-s/comment-page-1/#comment-522 laki Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:01:10 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/?p=86#comment-522 So this seems to be a partial explanation of changes in google index described above: Google does index the feed first, and until google also indexes the blog post, there won't be a 'cache' version of the page in search engine results http://groups.google.com/group/google-blog-search/browse_thread/thread/8244fc8731f47970?pli=1 Canonical urls can be self-referential, so this whole post is (luckily) a false (but well intent) alert! So this seems to be a partial explanation of changes in google index described above:

Google does index the feed first, and until google also indexes the blog post, there won’t be a ‘cache’ version of the page in search engine results

http://groups.google.com/group/google-blog-search/browse_thread/thread/8244fc8731f47970?pli=1

Canonical urls can be self-referential, so this whole post is (luckily) a false (but well intent) alert!

]]> By: laki http://seolutions.net/blog/google-canonical-url-problems-and-link-disappearance-from-serp-s/comment-page-1/#comment-521 laki Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:29:39 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/?p=86#comment-521 the confusion goes on... since i removed 'canonical', cached page appeared, but now i see 'canonical' link in it! i have now reactivated 'canonical' in the blog to see what will happen next. the confusion goes on…

since i removed ‘canonical’, cached page appeared, but now i see ‘canonical’ link in it!

i have now reactivated ‘canonical’ in the blog to see what will happen next.

]]> By: laki http://seolutions.net/blog/google-canonical-url-problems-and-link-disappearance-from-serp-s/comment-page-1/#comment-520 laki Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:19:54 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/?p=86#comment-520 if true, then how does google know about 'canonical' attribute. the more i think about this thing, the more i am confused. :( if true, then how does google know about ‘canonical’ attribute.

the more i think about this thing, the more i am confused.

:(

]]> By: laki http://seolutions.net/blog/google-canonical-url-problems-and-link-disappearance-from-serp-s/comment-page-1/#comment-519 laki Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:17:13 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/?p=86#comment-519 another interesting thing: after seeing result in blog search: http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&num=100&q=site%3Aseolutions.net%20canonical%20%22pages%20which%20have%20something%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wb i started wondering if google is indexing RSS content without accessing the site? another interesting thing: after seeing result in blog search: http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&num=100&q=site%3Aseolutions.net%20canonical%20%22pages%20which%20have%20something%22&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wb

i started wondering if google is indexing RSS content without accessing the site?

]]> By: laki http://seolutions.net/blog/google-canonical-url-problems-and-link-disappearance-from-serp-s/comment-page-1/#comment-518 laki Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:05:41 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/?p=86#comment-518 i guess google is not being straightforward about what it does with pages and how it interprets its rel attributes: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A+seolutions.net+canonical+%22pages+which+have+something%22&btnG=Search it does seem to have index of the content, but doesn't want to show it in 'cache'. anyhow, anyone who has done more experiments with this attribute is welcome to comment. i guess google is not being straightforward about what it does with pages and how it interprets its rel attributes:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A+seolutions.net+canonical+%22pages+which+have+something%22&btnG=Search

it does seem to have index of the content, but doesn’t want to show it in ‘cache’.

anyhow, anyone who has done more experiments with this attribute is welcome to comment.

]]> By: laki http://seolutions.net/blog/google-canonical-url-problems-and-link-disappearance-from-serp-s/comment-page-1/#comment-517 laki Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:33:32 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/?p=86#comment-517 ps. as of now, the only missing 'cache' from index of all blog pages is the latest post with canonical attribute: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aseolutions.net%2Fblog%2F ps. as of now, the only missing ‘cache’ from index of all blog pages is the latest post with canonical attribute:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aseolutions.net%2Fblog%2F

]]> By: laki http://seolutions.net/blog/google-canonical-url-problems-and-link-disappearance-from-serp-s/comment-page-1/#comment-516 laki Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:26:56 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/?p=86#comment-516 yes it is, but content of the page is not indexed -- there is no cache of this page. (it will appear in the future as i disabled canonical since) google places into its index url and anchor text when the page is disabled from being indexed. google doesn't have to even access the page to store it in the index -- look at section 2.2 of their original paper: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html yes it is, but content of the page is not indexed — there is no cache of this page. (it will appear in the future as i disabled canonical since)

google places into its index url and anchor text when the page is disabled from being indexed. google doesn’t have to even access the page to store it in the index — look at section 2.2 of their original paper:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

]]> By: Michael Torbert http://seolutions.net/blog/google-canonical-url-problems-and-link-disappearance-from-serp-s/comment-page-1/#comment-515 Michael Torbert Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:13:01 +0000 http://seolutions.net/blog/?p=86#comment-515 Looks to me like your page is in Google. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=site%3A+seolutions.net+canonical&btnG=Search Looks to me like your page is in Google.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=site%3A+seolutions.net+canonical&btnG=Search

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