Oct 28
Before sneaker.org went dark over a year ago, a google search for my name would bring sneaker.org as the first hit on google. After the site went dark, the ranking for the site on google’s search fell dramatically (which is to be expected). After I restored the site, I’ve been observing the logs and the rankings on google (not scientifically, but just using random sampling). Recently I noticed the google bot making requests for pages and images which do not exist on the site any more. Presumably this will make it remove the dead links to those pages over time (and hopefully expunge them from the cache as well) and also raise the rankings of the live pages. Intriguing…
November 6th, 2004 at 11:26 am
So it turns out that the reason I lost the rankings on google was a fault of my own. I was toying around with the means to exclude robots from indexing certain areas of the site and I left a vestige of my experiment in a critical include file. Now that that’s resolved, I’m hoping google’s algorithms will restore the site’s rankings. Alas, it may take a while.
November 9th, 2004 at 10:03 pm
Pleased to report thatthe rankings are back to their original levels. A search for ‘manu kumar’ on google serves up sneaker.org as the first site. Other searches also seem to have meanngful rankings.