Backlinks...DMOZ and others!

Still a PR0? Why?`

[derekwit]

My site has been lised in DMOZ for about four months. Even with all the problems they have been going through other directories have picked up my site and still I have a PR0. I email Google last week they stated that my site did not have a ban on it. But I do not understand why I still do not have any PR. Any suggestions? Please.... Please.....

[The Contractor]

If its the site in your profile (email).... you show no backlinks and no cache in Google. You are not penalized - you have not been indexed by Google. You need to get some sites linking to you..

[derekwit]

[google.com...]

[edited by: derekwit at 2:00 am (utc) on Mar. 11, 2003]

[The Contractor]

Uhmm... I would remove your url before the mods do :) Not allowed :)
You still are not showing any links that google counts as backlinks.

Those sites have your company name but not the URL linking to your site..

[derekwit]

Go to the second page. I just went there are a couple of PR3's and I think a PR4 just on that page. My DMOZ listing is a PR4. I am a little puzzled

[The Contractor]

First your site is not showing that it is indexed by Google. Second - Google has not updated its directory, although it is showing new descriptions etc for sites in the index. Third - the sites I checked that have a link to you are all PR 1 or 2 and the ones that are higher have "tons" of links on the same page so they are not going to pass a lot of PR to your site even if they are PR 4 or 5.

You just need to be patient and keep trying to get links that preferably on the same theme/topic as your site. Google will index your site and all will be well as long as you keep improving your content and links :)

[derekwit]

any suggestions on how to improve my content. And the $1,000,000 question where I can start getting desent links.

Thanks for all of your help you have given.

[derekwit]

I do have 1 page indexed in Google it has been there for about 4 months. It is my index.cfm page. Freshbot visits me almost every other day.

Matter a fact he visited my earlier today:
2003-03-10 17:28:28 64.68.82.66 - 216.119.105.20 GET /robots.txt - 200 267 178 0 HTTP/1.0 www.mysite.com Googlebot/2.1+(+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) - -
2003-03-10 17:28:29 64.68.82.66 - 216.119.105.20 GET /home.htm - 200 14890 218 47 HTTP/1.0 www.mysite.com Googlebot/2.1+(+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) - -
2003-03-10 17:30:01 209.249.67.136 - 216.119.105.20 GET /home.htm

What can I do to get more pages in the index. I understand the freshbot only gathers and post fresh content where as deepcrawl feeds the dance. But it seems like every month deepcrawl will come and only get my robots.txt file and my index.cfm file and that is it.

[The Contractor]

Sure - there is wealth of information on these forums. The best place to start reading and learning is here :)

I would suggest:
[webmasterworld.com...]

and for Google specific start here: [webmasterworld.com...]

added - Yes but your site is still considered new by Google and will probably float in and out of the index for a while. Be patient and read, read, read....or hire a professional (those are your two choices).

[steveb]

your index.cfm page is redirecting me to a home.htm page.

Your DMOZ page listing is not showing any backlinks itself. It may not have been crawled by Googlebot last month. Submit it to Google using the add url form.