4 May
2019
4 May
'19
5:03 p.m.
Rob,
When I put ampr.org in the google search almost all come back as first the TLD and wiki.
The others are sites talking about ampr.org and the group that are subdomains are old dead
links.
As I said in the first email, I did consult the google search console and submitted the
site. I’ve submitted the site and Brian was kind enough to add. a TXT line (as per google
search console) with the code proving I have the right to submit the domain. That is
several weeks ago and the search console shows it attempted to crawl. Googles server now
(unlike years ago) honor request to not crawl. It attempted the crawl and declined to
proceed.
You probably know that it’s nearly impossible to contact google for support. Therein lies
my luck to have a friend that could look behind the scene at the google server. His answer
is that this is not a google problem but an issue with some sort of blocking at the TLD.
He just can’t tell what that is except, the google crawler is being told to not crawl
subdomains in some way.
All I was asking was that if someone more knowledgeable than me with access to the DNS
could see what possibly would cause this denial.
Have a careful look through the google search response to ampr.org. There are none.
Roger.
VA7LBB
On May 4, 2019, at 02:19, Rob Janssen <pe1chl(a)amsat.org> wrote:
My friend at
google isn’t 100% sure what’s happening
That is very obvious!
Maybe you should consult the google search engine itself, instead of your friend.
Enter this in the Google search bar: site:ampr.org
This returns 17700 results of all kinds of different sites below .ampr.org.
You see the domain names xxxx.ampr.org listed in the results.
So there really is no problem indexing ampr.org sites.
I think what you encounter is the difficulty to add a NEW site to the index, not any
generic
problem with .ampr.org.
They probably aren't that eager to add a new site, of which you specify only a start
URL, to
their index. And rightly so. That capability was likely abused widely.
Instead, you should (ask to) put links to your site from other sites relevant to the
subject
of your own site. E.g. the page of your local club, other people's private sites,
etc.
Then, after some time, indexing will occur.
Rob