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2 weeks ago it disappeared from the listings and my PR bar went grey. I read the posts in these groups and realized that they were going through a transition period at google.
But now that there has been a new deep crawl since, and it seems google is getting back to normal, I'm wondering why I am still grey barred, with no results.
I certainly never did anything intentional to get banned. (But I am a newbie, and a little worried). Could google have lost me somewhere between old and new servers?
The jist of the question I guess is "Should I be relisted by now, or are they still really behind on things?"
Newbie please remember, and my apologies...
As a side note, when I disappeared, it didn't happen all at once. I was on one day, off the next, etc.. for a few days. HTH, and TIA
You should now learn more about update and deep crawl. Try searching the forum. You can get answers faster then posting because they are widely available.
My host company doesn't give server logs with my package, so I can't check, but I'm basically sure that I haven't been deep crawled. I was reading the posts as people were saying "crawl is happening", so I've been waiting patiently, but thought maybe I should ask you gurus.
TIA
I would not start panicking if I were you! I have been in the same situation and was listed in April, disappeared for a week and went grey bar. I have re-appeared yesterday after adding some new content and getting a few more links and getting Freshbotted - I'm not expecting it to stick until there is a deepcrawl (still grey barred - but what the hey!)
Try not to worry, I think us April newbies may have a longer wait than is usual, but I doubt if you have been banned.
Keep you chin up!
Polly
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Davester
Interesting stuff. I guess I am in a similar position.
I launched a new site early in April and it has been crawled many times. I never did get any "green-bar" page rank though. It's still grey. I have a clean site, no reason I can figure why it might be penalized or banned.
I checked my stats and Googlebots pays me a visit almost every day or every second day (sometimes only a one-page hit and other days hitting all the pages).
My rankings on key words go up and down, but I appear on very few.
I'm hoping that its just a matter of time. It's been about 6 weeks with a grey bar. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do to find out for sure if my site is penalized or banned? Is there anyone we can email at Google to check so I can correct anything that may be holding my site back?
Nelson
Try searching for a very niche phrase,4/5/6 words etc, that appear somewhere on one of your pages.
eg
widgets your telephone number, or email address (as long as they are on a page)
You should show, if not it doesn't mean you are banned, but if you do show..no problem you are in the index
You can also try searching for your url, but leave out the www
Again that is not a sure-fire way, but in will prove you are not banned if your site shows.
Any page put up after February 15 or so has no real pagerank and will likely/often/usually show as PR0 or a grey bar. It means nothing, and certainly is not a sign of a penalty.
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People with new sites need to understand that nothing happening with their sites really means anything. They aren't in the "permanent"/deepcrawled index and won't be (likely) for another month. There is nothing you can do about it, no matter how many times people post the same things here.
Just make sure you have no hidden text, zero-height or width frames, low contrast text(compared to background), text over images, etc. and you should be ok. Just don't expect stability in Google's listings immediately.
Makes me understand that it all takes time.
Just call me "nervous newbie"
Thx
