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    • garak0410G
      garak0410
      last edited by garak0410

      We changed DNS providers over 3 weeks ago and made sure our website pointed to our WIX site and everything is set perfectly both on WIX and our DNS provider.

      But if you go to Google, Bing. "and the rest", it will show the address of one of our secondary names rather than our main web address...

      Main web name: www.pinnaclestructures.com

      The google search results show: www.pinnaclemetalbuildings.com/contact.html

      pinnaclemetalbuildings is an alternate web name we purchased but don't use. It brings up a cached copy of our old site before WIX.

      Bing does have a link to our index page (sans www) and takes you to the WIX page.

      Bottom line, if I am certain my DNS entries are all good, how long does it take the big search engines to catch up? Thanks...

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      • thanksajdotcomT
        thanksajdotcom @garak0410
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        @garak0410 said:

        We changed DNS providers over 3 weeks ago and made sure our website pointed to our WIX site and everything is set perfectly both on WIX and our DNS provider.

        But if you go to Google, Bing. "and the rest", it will show the address of one of our secondary names rather than our main web address...

        Main web name: www.pinnaclestructures.com

        The google search results show: www.pinnaclemetalbuildings.com/contact.html

        pinnaclemetalbuildings is an alternate web name we purchased but don't use. It brings up a cached copy of our old site before WIX.

        Bing does have a link to our index page (sans www) and takes you to the WIX page.

        Bottom line, if I am certain my DNS entries are all good, how long does it take the big search engines to catch up? Thanks...

        Crawlers take time. Google and Bing bots should be up-to-date after three weeks but they may still not be. Bing actually gives much better results for me when I Bing "thanksaj" than Googling it. (sorry, saying when I Bing it sounds weird) I see the bots hit my page constantly. Not much you can do, AFAIK.

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        • garak0410G
          garak0410 @thanksajdotcom
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          @ajstringham said:

          @garak0410 said:

          We changed DNS providers over 3 weeks ago and made sure our website pointed to our WIX site and everything is set perfectly both on WIX and our DNS provider.

          But if you go to Google, Bing. "and the rest", it will show the address of one of our secondary names rather than our main web address...

          Main web name: www.pinnaclestructures.com

          The google search results show: www.pinnaclemetalbuildings.com/contact.html

          pinnaclemetalbuildings is an alternate web name we purchased but don't use. It brings up a cached copy of our old site before WIX.

          Bing does have a link to our index page (sans www) and takes you to the WIX page.

          Bottom line, if I am certain my DNS entries are all good, how long does it take the big search engines to catch up? Thanks...

          Crawlers take time. Google and Bing bots should be up-to-date after three weeks but they may still not be. Bing actually gives much better results for me when I Bing "thanksaj" than Googling it. (sorry, saying when I Bing it sounds weird) I see the bots hit my page constantly. Not much you can do, AFAIK.

          "Bing"...4th floor...Men's Clothing... 🙂

          Thanks...yeah, I tell management and marketing we just have to wait and they don't want to...LOL

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            technobabble @garak0410
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            @garak0410 Did you setup 301 redirects to each page or just one generic 301 redirect OR did you use your domain providers DNS to point to the new nameservers?

            A 301 redirect to each page tells the search engines that each new page is here, and the search engines quickly make the changes.

            If you just do a redirect to the new site as a whole, you will lose all your previous search engine results. End result is like starting over.

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              technobabble
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              Do you have a Google and Bing webmaster account setup for the site?

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              • DashrenderD
                Dashrender
                last edited by

                What are you searching for on Google to get any results in the first place?

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                  technobabble
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                  @garak0410 said:

                  is pinnaclemetalbuildings forwarded to www.pinnaclestructures.com?

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                    technobabble
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                    Using this website I found that you have a 302 (temporary) redirect from http://pinnaclemetalbuildings.com and was taken to http://pinnaclestructures.wix.com/pinnaclestructures. This is wrong and should be fixed with a page by page 301 redirect.

                    You also have a 301 redirect in place for http://pinnaclestructures.com to http://pinnaclestructures.com.

                    Because of the 302 for the index page or home page the rest of the pages for http://pinnaclemetalbuidlings.com are live pages.

                    You should have a 301 redirect from http://pinnaclemetalbuildings.com/contact.html to http://www.pinnaclestructures.com/#!form__map/c24vq (which is the contact page).

                    Wix is not as SEO friendly as WordPress, but follow the stuff from Marketing Grader and it will help you a lot. I would start with the SEO section which deals with your image tags and unique page titles and descriptions.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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                      Spiceworks updates Google every few minutes.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller
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                        Do you have a Google-friendly XML sitemap?

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                          A Former User @scottalanmiller
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                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          Spiceworks updates Google every few minutes.

                          Isn't it vice-versa. Google choses to refresh the index every few min. I didn't know there was a way for Spiceworks (or any site) to force updates to google.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            There are ways to triggle it but no way to force it.

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                            • thanksajdotcomT
                              thanksajdotcom @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              There are ways to triggle it but no way to force it.

                              What's a triggle? 😛

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                Argh.

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                                  A Former User
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                                  It's Tigger's Cousin.. 😉

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                                  • thanksajdotcomT
                                    thanksajdotcom @A Former User
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                                    @thecreativeone91 said:

                                    It's Tigger's Cousin.. 😉

                                    I think that's a Trigglet.

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                                      Carnival Boy @scottalanmiller
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                                      @scottalanmiller said:

                                      There are ways to triggle it but no way to force it.

                                      As far as I was aware you can use webmaster tools to request a crawler visit, which you'd normally do if you've done a lot of changes, but not to request it visits every 5 minutes forever. Pretty sure Spiceworks is constantly crawled because it is a massively popular site.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        Spiceworks is not crawled, I don't think. Well it is, but not every minute. Instead they send an update signal to the Google API like any blog can opt to do (or used to at least) so that Google is aware that a change has been made and exactly what it is so that instead of crawling the entire site they just crawl the new content.

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                                        • garak0410G
                                          garak0410 @technobabble
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                                          @technobabble said:

                                          Using this website I found that you have a 302 (temporary) redirect from http://pinnaclemetalbuildings.com and was taken to http://pinnaclestructures.wix.com/pinnaclestructures. This is wrong and should be fixed with a page by page 301 redirect.

                                          You also have a 301 redirect in place for http://pinnaclestructures.com to http://pinnaclestructures.com.

                                          Because of the 302 for the index page or home page the rest of the pages for http://pinnaclemetalbuidlings.com are live pages.

                                          You should have a 301 redirect from http://pinnaclemetalbuildings.com/contact.html to http://www.pinnaclestructures.com/#!form__map/c24vq (which is the contact page).

                                          Wix is not as SEO friendly as WordPress, but follow the stuff from Marketing Grader and it will help you a lot. I would start with the SEO section which deals with your image tags and unique page titles and descriptions.

                                          I know I did the above and yes, weeks later, our search results are still quite a mess...I will check my settings again but was wondering if anyone had any other advice on how to get this...I mean, our default www.pinnaclestructures.com doesn't even return in search results...

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                                            technobabble @garak0410
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                                            @garak0410 said:

                                            www.pinnaclestructures.com

                                            Do you have a Google webmasters account and is this website setup with them?

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