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asy_sitemap: strange ranking differences
I realized that on my website, which uses asy_sitemap as the only relevant plugin to this question, a really strange search engine ranking appears.
I use Google Search to find articles on my site as you can see here.
- Now please do me a favor and search for “Projekt 52:52” on 3th.be or just click here.
- Look at the results!
- There is “3th: Archiv” as the first result, which is my archive-page.
- There is “3th: Gemeinsam vs. Zusammen” as the second result, which is no longer valid since this link has been a WP-trackback from inside my blog to inside my blog and I removed this one.
- The article is rather old (December 2005) and can be found here: Projekt 52:52.
So can someone please explain to me, why my archive-page and some trackback has more value to google than the article itself?
(Edit: updated discussion topic. -Mary)
Last edited by Mary (2007-04-18 06:53:47)
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Re: asy_sitemap: strange ranking differences
Michael wrote:
So can someone please explain to me, why my archive-page and some trackback has more value to google than the article itself?
Would this answer your question?
Yiannis
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Re: asy_sitemap: strange ranking differences
Uhm, no.
The archive-page exists for about four days now and the article itself for around a year, so chances that there are more links to the article itself are much higher than to the archive-page.
I added meta-tags to the archive page: noindex, follow – let’s see how this influences the results.
Last edited by Michael (2007-04-16 09:17:57)
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Re: asy_sitemap: strange ranking differences
Try removing the meta description on single articles or customize it with txp:excerpt. Probably add a robots.txt too.
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#5 2007-04-17 00:05:46
- Mary
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Re: asy_sitemap: strange ranking differences
The CMS you use is irrelevant. It’s all how you markup your pages.
The archive-page exists for about four days now and the article itself for around a year, so chances that there are more links to the article itself are much higher than to the archive-page.
But was it linked to? and where it was linked from, you didn’t have nofollow applied anywhere, did you?
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Re: asy_sitemap: strange ranking differences
I know about the CMS-thing. Of course, it’s all in the markup.
Let me ask another way round: I use a sitemap (as I mentioned in the first article). Can this sitemap interfere with the “natural” linkings of my homepage?
Michael
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#7 2007-04-18 06:52:58
- Mary
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Re: asy_sitemap: strange ranking differences
Can this sitemap interfere with the “natural” linkings of my homepage?
No, in fact it should improve it. Try seeing if Google has had crawling problems.
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