bread crumb trail in Google description of page

[The Bicycling Guitarist]

The good news is Google apparently found my site sometime in the last week.
It lists 186 pages, even some not accessible from my site map.

The bad news is I still have a page rank of zero. Even worse news is that
most pages list the "bread crumb" trail used for navigation as the first and
sometimes the majority of those pages unique descriptions.

The nav bar links above the bread crumb trails are not in the Google
descriptions. I'm glad for that.

Should I move the nav bar and bread crumb trail to the bottom of each page
and if I want them to display at the top use CSS? I think I tried that a
year ago with less than satisfactory results.

My site is at http://www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/ Nearly all the pages
except for the home page and the site map have the nav bar and bread crumb
trails at the top.

--
The Bicycling Guitarist

[Techforce]

Yea, a lot of your pages have the 1969 cache bug too. What was the reason
why your site got back in the index recently? I remember you said it may
have been a
UTF-8 or a host problem?


"The Bicycling Guitarist" <Chris@TheBicyclingGuitarist.net> wrote in message
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| The good news is Google apparently found my site sometime in the last
week.
| It lists 186 pages, even some not accessible from my site map.
|
| The bad news is I still have a page rank of zero. Even worse news is that
| most pages list the "bread crumb" trail used for navigation as the first
and
| sometimes the majority of those pages unique descriptions.
|
| The nav bar links above the bread crumb trails are not in the Google
| descriptions. I'm glad for that.
|
| Should I move the nav bar and bread crumb trail to the bottom of each page
| and if I want them to display at the top use CSS? I think I tried that a
| year ago with less than satisfactory results.
|
| My site is at http://www.TheBicyclingGuitarist.net/ Nearly all the pages
| except for the home page and the site map have the nav bar and bread crumb
| trails at the top.
|
| --
| The Bicycling Guitarist
|

[The Bicycling Guitarist]

"Techforce" <spam@linhax.com> wrote in message
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> Yea, a lot of your pages have the 1969 cache bug too. What was the reason
> why your site got back in the index recently? I remember you said it may
> have been a
> UTF-8 or a host problem?
>

Both. I wanted my host to declare UTF-8 from the server since I heard that
meta tags for this are a hack. I still think he didn't configure the server
properly, because one is supposed to be able to do this and this is supposed
to be the preferred method. A couple weeks ago I asked him to take it out.

Even though 186 pages of mine are indexed now, the page ranks are still
zero. I had a page rank of 6 before Google dropped me a year and a half ago
(not bad for a personal page).

[Wÿrm]

"The Bicycling Guitarist" <Chris@TheBicyclingGuitarist.net> wrote in
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<snip>
> page ranks are still zero. I had a page rank of 6 before Google dropped
me a year and a half ago
> (not bad for a personal page).

Google dont update google bar PageRank that often at all nowadays... So
your PageRank probably will change when next PR update (for google bar)
is gonna be...

[Techforce]

hmm. My Site map was in UTF-8, and Google never had a problem grabbing it,
and spidering it - but I changed it anyway, and made all the charsets on the
site idential just for conformity. Still didnt help. I dunno if you said
you moved hosts - ? Because I also like you had a host who used MS IIS
(Windows Server)
and thought that maybe had something in common. My host really stunk, and at
least now I can view my own logs. As a test, re-submitted my URL back to
Google, and the very next morning my site was fixed, & showing the missing
pages , plus some more from a Bulletin board I had placed there. They all
had the 1969 cache date though. Also, that same night I did that, Google
reported their index tripled overnight <grin> No lie. Makes you wonder if
Google intertwines keywords in their algorythm , and when one index gets an
unknown bug, it domino effects other sites that have the same keywords.

Could be also maybe the bulletin board pages made Googlebot bog down, or get
sick ? Could be its well again, because it finally stopped by just before,
and finally spidered the site map that it grabbed about a week ago, and
actually gave the right date, and not the 1969 date. I decided to not have
Google spider the bulletin board by changing the robots.txt file


"The Bicycling Guitarist" <Chris@TheBicyclingGuitarist.net> wrote in message
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|
| "Techforce" <spam@linhax.com> wrote in message
| news:J6mdndZCEMC-mVjcRVn-vA@adelphia.com...
| > Yea, a lot of your pages have the 1969 cache bug too. What was the
reason
| > why your site got back in the index recently? I remember you said it may
| > have been a
| > UTF-8 or a host problem?
| >
|
| Both. I wanted my host to declare UTF-8 from the server since I heard that
| meta tags for this are a hack. I still think he didn't configure the
server
| properly, because one is supposed to be able to do this and this is
supposed
| to be the preferred method. A couple weeks ago I asked him to take it out.
|
| Even though 186 pages of mine are indexed now, the page ranks are still
| zero. I had a page rank of 6 before Google dropped me a year and a half
ago
| (not bad for a personal page).
|