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r_barlow
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New PHP Site, Old Google Indexes

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Hey,

I've recently redeveloped the company website from a static HTML page to a dynamic mysql/php one. The page has been live for about a month or so now and I've noticed something pretty disturbing. When I search for my site in google using the "site:" before the URI, the list of indexes comes up as the .HTM pages instead of the new PHP pages.

Shouldn't all of these been replaced by now? Is there something I'm missing??
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Oren
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Sometimes it takes 3 months till the search engine crawls your site, so I guess you need to wait a little bit :wink:
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Post by r_barlow »

Ahh yeh I guess thats probably it.

I have another quick question that is related. For the meta description/keywords, is it good to have different ones for every page in the website? I think somebody told me that it's ok to have the same description for each page but different keywords. Just checking if this is accurate.

Thanks!
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Well, this is hard to tell and I've heard different things from different people. I really don't know whether he is right or not, but personally I would go with a unique description and a unique keywords on every page - related to the content of the page of course.

Now I want to blow up a common myth that suggests that search engines don't use the description you put within the meta tags - this is not true at all, I used it on a site of mine and once google had found my site, the description for my site when you searched for it on google was an exact copy of my description which I put inside the meta tag. Later on, Iv'e heard the same (finally) from a SEO expert. He said exactly what I found out by myself - google use the description you put in the meta tag.
As for MSN, I can't remember if they used my description or not :P
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