Why, after over half a year, hasn’t Ask updated their index with my new URLs and content?
If you search for my site in the Ask.com search engine you get all of the old URLs and old content from the previous version of my site. Lot’s of .shtm and .htm extensions show up in the results.*That’s in spite of me (a) setting up permanent redirects to my new URLs and newly structured content and (b) setting up a valid sitemap.xml file and seeding my robots.txt with the proper autodiscovery instructions. Supposedly they support both, but I get nothing. The only stuff that does show up from the new site is my blog. Which is all well and good since I like this place, but my blog is not the focus of drunkenfist.com, so getting Ask to look at my newly formatted/updated content would be extremely beneficial for me.
Check it out and pray for me as I research this little snafu**…
drunkenfist.com site:www.drunkenfist.com - Ask.com Web Search
*That’s especially lame as the .htm files haven’t physically existed for probably 6 years.)
**Truly one of the great acronyms: Situation Normal: All Fucked Up