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chad316
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« on: October 05, 2008, 02:03:13 AM »
Hi folks, i've had a few problems getting my meta description to change over. Now originally i had an index.html file on my server with my old data, however a few months back i set up my new website renaming index.html to index.php. I set a new meta description on my index.php page, which shows up correctly in google search, the problem is if you search my domain without adding /index.php (so just www.mydomain.com)  it shows up with the old index.html data as the description.. how can i change this so that it reads the index.php and not the index.html meta description?
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« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2008, 02:47:57 AM »
Has your site been visited by the Googlebot since you made your changes? 

Go into Google search & search for
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cache:yourdomain.com
It tells you at the top of the screen the last date & time the cache, & index, was updated.

Is your site in DMOZ?

If so Google does, at times, use the DMOZ description.  To stop this you need to add this into the <head> of your page:
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<meta name=”robots” content=”noodp”>
And wait for the next time Googlebots visit your site.
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« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2008, 03:27:39 AM »
hey thanks for your reply, yes my site has been visited by the googlebot since i made my changes and it changed the meta description for http://www.mydomain.com/index.php but not for http://www.mydomain.com. my site is not in dmoz..
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« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2008, 04:44:51 AM »
Quote from: chad316 on October 05, 2008, 03:27:39 AM
my site has been visited by the googlebot since i made my changes and it changed the meta description for http://www.mydomain.com/index.php but not for http://www.mydomain.com.

What is the URL of your site?
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« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2008, 08:36:20 AM »
ive pm'ed it you
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« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2008, 11:16:53 AM »
Moved to proper board.
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« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2008, 02:23:31 PM »
Quote from: chad316 on October 05, 2008, 08:36:20 AM
ive pm'ed it you

I've PM-ed you a reply.  Smiley
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« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2008, 05:36:18 AM »
This issue has been resolved.

www.mydomain.com & www.mydomain/index.php are regarded by Googlebot as 2 completely seperate URLs.

As I expected the 2 URLs have been indexed at different times. 

www.mydomain.com was last visited by Googlebot on Aug 14 when this page was still under construction.

www.mydomain.com/index.php was last visited on Sep 29.

The best way to check the last date any page was indexed by using the "cache:" in the Google search.

This was probably caused by Googlebot finding links to www.mydomain.com/index.php in the past month & not to www.mydomain.com

If you have paid for .htaccess support on 110mb this can be solved with a simple redirect requests for index.php to the root:
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Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Replace http://www.mydomain.com with the URL of your site.
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« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2008, 10:29:24 PM »
Quote from: goutham on October 11, 2008, 08:54:29 PM
google uses a complex algorithm(a secret one) to rank pages
for simplicity we may consider it looks at metatags(keywords) and title of the page

You have obviously not read the posts in this thread.

Google does not consider the meta keywords tag. 

It does consider the title.
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