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Thursday, 20 August 2015 03:31 UTC

designasite

Hope you can help or guide me...

<blockquote>Background</blockquote>

I did a complete rebuild of my website on siteground hosting server ... it use to be an old website on Joomla 1.5 with about 3000 pages and with the new rebuild on new server Joomla 3.4.3 with 318 pages ... I use sh404sef latest version.

I did submit a sitemap and added all 3 versions of my website ---> www, non-www and https to google webmaster tools ... my preferred website is set to www.thebesthotelsinthailand.com ... only 14 page is indexed and when I check those are all old pages from the old site on old server ... that site does not exist anymore ... there is only 1 site and it's on this server.

I also check ... no guidelines was broken and I was not penalized by google for anything.

<blockquote>robot.txt</blockquote>

# If the Joomla site is installed within a folder such as at
# e.g. www.example.com/joomla/ the robots.txt file MUST be
# moved to the site root at e.g. www.example.com/robots.txt
# AND the joomla folder name MUST be prefixed to the disallowed
# path, e.g. the Disallow rule for the /administrator/ folder
# MUST be changed to read Disallow: /joomla/administrator/
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/orig.html
#
# For syntax checking, see:
# http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/robots/check.html

User-agent: *
#Disallow: /administrator/
#Disallow: /includes/
#Disallow: /installation/
#Disallow: /language/
#Disallow: /templates/
#Disallow: /tmp/
#Disallow: /xmlrpc/
<blockquote>Crawl-delay: 10</blockquote>

I tried to delete that <blockquote>Crawl-delay: 10</blockquote> but it does not want to go away and I don't know if that could maybe be the problem.

If you have any ideas or maybe know of a company or anything to help me ... that would be great ...

Thanks
Sue

Thursday, 20 August 2015 08:57 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

It may needs some time, how long ago was the new site published?
The only thing I don't unerstand is why you talk about adding 3 versions of your site (nonwww, www and https). From what I see, all versions are redirected to https://www, so that's the only version you should declare.

sitemaps are usually of little use to be honest, particularly for small sites, at least if they are crawlable.

Rgds

Thursday, 20 August 2015 12:56 UTC

designasite

Hi There

About a month ago ...

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/44231?hl=en

maybe I'm reading to much and understanding to little ;)

Ok so what do you think? I delete https: and non-www --- I only keep www

I have set this in the backend of sh404sef - 301 redirect www/non-www - enforce access through www

I just took about 28 url's and in the search console of webmaster tools --- fetch as Google --- and submit to index ... maybe this works I don't know anymore.

Thanks so much for getting back to me ... I have send a few message on Google Webmaster Tools Help ... but no luck on any solutions.

Thanks.
Kind Regards
Sue

Thursday, 20 August 2015 13:02 UTC

designasite

Monday, 24 August 2015 06:31 UTC

wb_weeblr

Hi

You should all variations (non-www, www, https/http) only if they can be accessed. In your case, you have redirects in place so only one variation can be accessed. One way or the other, declaring the other variations should have no effect as you redirect them.

If your site is correctly working and redirected, maybe it's time to turn to off-site work: backlinks from others, social network activity to spread knowledge of the new site...

Rgds

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