Re: Explanation of traffic drop
Search engines do not crawl pages with querystrings
(anything with a ? in the URL). It is not just ASP,
but JSP, cgi, and anything else that uses the ? format.
If your site has LOADS of inbound links, then sometimes
google will index SOME of your pages with querystrings.
You are probably experiencing a few different things.
1) Most search engines point to your OLD pages. This will
be fixed automatically over the next 2 months.
2) Search engines will probably not index your ? pages
3) When ? pages ARE indexed, they rank lower than pages
without querystrings in them.
For more info on these subjects, read
http://www.searchengineforums.com
lurker,
Chris Kaminski
http://www.HomeNetHelp.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Barcella [mailto:Expgator_at_aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 10:46 AM
> To: Online Advertising Discussion List Subscriber
> Subject: [online-ads] Explanation of traffic drop
>
>
> I am hoping someone may be able to shed some insight on a
> recent decline in traffic to our site www.funideas.com.
> We recently launched a database driven website (asp) and
> noticed traffic has been decreasing about two weeks after
> the launch. Sales/traffic were great for about two weeks
> after the launch and have trailed off since. Would
> search engine optimization help? I was told search
> engine spiders do not pick up site done in asp. Is this
Received on Tue Jun 11 2002 - 15:04:31 CDT
