Search term links content not right
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I see the search terms the visitors used in my dashboard. That is quite interesting and nice to have. I thank you first of all.
There is a tiny bit of problem I found. In the blog, the blog displays most recent posts. Now when the visitor searched using a search term, the search engines looks even the older posts and gives them the link to the main home of the blog. Now the visitor clicks it and it comes to the main entrance to the blog. But unfortunately that the search terms that he used isn’t found on the main blog posts, since those posts were old and archived.
Now, if even the visitor comes to our blogs with those search terms, s/he was not able to actually find the content if its not recent. I don’t know why the search engines doesn’t give direct url to the posts.
I assume that WordPress.com does not allow the search engines to link to the direct posts, so it always gives the main url. Is there way to solve the visitor’s disappointment?
[Please not that I’m talking about posts, and not pages]
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And an example of this would be?…
Are you discussing the search feature built into your blog or one like Google?
There are no blocks in place to prevent search engines from spidering your site. You may want to take a look at this thread where I worked with someone else on how the spiders look at one’s site. It may help you as well.
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I get searches for child porn and the other day I think it was 13 year old porn. :( WTF?? But these search engines group different words from my different posts and link them together like if it was one post. :(
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Nosy, I would like to see the terms you’re hitting. If you want to email them to me, feel free.
Maybe you need to make a few changes to your writing style. :)
*chuckle* It’s all those Hollywood types trying to act young. That’s what does it.
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Here’s one from the 14th:
14 year old nudity
And twice I remember something having to do with 13 year olds. It doesn’t happen everyday but it does. But I’ve posted things about Charlie Sheen possibly killing porn star Chloe Jones. And Tom Cruise and gay male porn star. And Thora Birch’s parents are both former porn stars. The age referrance can be from any post. So the search engines mix that all together like it came from one post.
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drmike,
I’m having exact problem as “linuxunix” had described in the thread that you linked in your answer above.
Its not with the blog search feature, but with Google.
What I think is happening is when I posts, its on the main page. Since its most recent. If the google’s spider crawls then, it saves the and have the link to my page. So when the user searches, it actually gives the post my main page. But if the post is not “recent post” any more [hence archived], the post is not found in the main. Yet, the link still refers to main page, since that’s what Google has as last time crawled.
It would be best, if the Google actually refers the posts actual URL , even if its “recent posts” instead of the main blog URL.
I don’t know how this can be done!
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skcsknathan:
Reducing the number of posts that appear on the main page might help, but there is no real way to prevent this issue.
It is also a temporary issue, as time goes by Google will update their records and that search term will go to the archived page directly.
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Yes, its a temporary issue for that specific posts/ keywords. As there are new posts coming up the temporary problem will continue with the next set of “recent posts”, and hence will not end.
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Updating your blog more often will also help. If Google notices that the page content is changing more often, it will spider your site more often as well.
As to nosy’s issue, there’s little that can be done since Google itself is putting those words together themselves to come up with it’s listing. (If you’ll look, the search term is not in together but made up of content from a number of different places on her site. There’s nothing that says exactly ’14 year old nudity’ on her website.)
Skcsknatha, maybe listing some examples of the terms being used to find your site incorrectly might help us help you. :)
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mike:
I don’t think there is a solution possible on the wordpress.com end of things. This is just a side effect of how search engines work, and this would happen with any blog.
skcsknathan001:
Set up a Google Sitemaps account. Create a sitemap for your blog, and then for the url put your RSS feed (http://1paarvai.wordpress.com/feed)
Google will now know when your blog is updated.
I’m not sure if it will entirely fix your problem. I just did a test doing a google search for the headline of my last post (written 4 days ago) and it correctly found the sub-page instead of the main page of my blog.
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Actually it’s very possible to fix. It’s probably the writing style involved. Was with ‘linuxunix’. That’s why I was asking for examples.
<humour>You have to become one with the spiders</humour>
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drmike i have question too about search engine … why the content from yahoo search engine is not the actual content from my post on my wordpress page ? for example im searching with this query :
site:reaperxzr.wordpress.com
and the search result content would be the text from the sidebar / widget instead of the actual contentthen i try another searchquery like this :
site:timethief.wordpress.com
the results is correct, its showing the actual content of timethief page (um sorry for testing your page timethief thats because i always saw you at WP forums) :Pand another search by using this query :
site:tdjc.be … and the results are still correct …
so what’s the real problem here ? why yahoo crawler doesnt index my page properly ? is it because of my keywords, sidebar, or something else ? … btw there’s no problem with google
thanks in advance and sorry for my bad english ;)
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Thank you ENGTECH
I did have the sitemap setup.. I mean I added my blog, but didn’t submit my sitemap. I didn’t know I can use the RSS feed url for the sitemap.
well, now I submitted and lets see.
I’m wondering how did you verify its this is your site. Google asks to verify by adding META TAG or UPLOAD AN HTML FILE. There is no index file to add META TAG. If I add Google’s META TAG to the “top recent post” then, wouldn’t that create bad index, when that’s not “recent posts” anymore?
VIVIAN
click SITEMAPS and ADD A SITEMAP and in the url enter your feed url http://vivianpaige.wordpress.com/feed/DRMIKE,
Thanks for your help, I’ll give u examples, if I find it next time.
I kinda couldn’t re-make the problem, that’s why I was unable to give examples.______
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I’m wondering how did you verify its this is your site. Google asks to verify by adding META TAG or UPLOAD AN HTML FILE. There is no index file to add META TAG. If I add Google’s META TAG to the “top recent post” then, wouldn’t that create bad index, when that’s not “recent posts” anymore?
That won’t work because you can’t put the META TAG in the HTML HEAD element. You actually can’t verify your wordpress.com blog with Google Sitemaps.
That’s what this thread was about:
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I just noticed that in this blog post:
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/09/14/submitting-your-sitemap-and-feeds-to-google-blog-search-and-site-submission/Lorelle mentioned that using Google Sitemaps with WordPress.com blogs is a bad idea, since it works much better without Sitemaps.
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This girl Emma use to have a site here at WordPress and she deleted her site because of the child porn search terms she would get to her site. She was abused as a child and would talk about it. And she was so upset about the referrals she got that she just deleted her entire site. I use to go to her site all the time but I found her MySpace on cache but she has it on private and I don’t want to bother her. :(
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Please do a search in Google for the following [one search]
“Request.form” “unicode” hidden ASP.NET
My blog comes as the first entry. It links to my tag “asp-aspnet”.
When the user follows that link he does NOT find the sentence “It’s a hidden form field managed by the ASP.NET page framework. When ASP”, which appears in Google search result.This is what I was talking. Google has the cached page, which actually contained that post at that time. Now that post doesn’t appear in the front.
So as the user’s perspective, user might think that I have deleted that post, but in reality it is there [in next page]
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