Google not indexing sites

Fairly well-linked sites not being visited

[namniboose]

I have had a problem with a number of client sites which sometimes aren't re-indexed for months at a time.

These are sites that have ODP links and a fair few other links, including a link from my own site, which gets visited by Google regularly.

Any ideas?

[Alphawolf]

I have had a problem with a number of client sites which sometimes aren't re-indexed for months at a time.

Are all the sites of your creation? What you state above sounds like an automatic penalty for something like Hidden Text.

When you use 'allinurl:www.domain.com' those sites show no results?

Are you doing anything Google may not like? Hidden text, heavy interlinking of your client sites, etc...?

added: I see you posted a note may 16th:

"One domain for search engines, one for customer
Is this a good idea?"

Have you read the following:

[google.com...]

AW

[namniboose]

Hi Alphawolf,

I didn't make the sites, I am just promoting them and I said they haven't been RE-indexed. They ARE in there, no penalty, but Google hasn't re-visited them. In fact all the sites with a PR of lower than 5 only seem to be visited once in a blue moon (yes, I know that probably answers my question!).

Re: one domain for customers, one for search engines: only one site is hosted, with a 2nd domain name pointed at it via the registrar, so Google shouldn't index the second domain name should it?

[sanblasena]

My not so new sites (April 9th) are not being visited. For many months I have been calling them my new sites, but they are not really that new anymore. I have an older site (pr5) that showed my updates the next day. My not so new sites are all showing pr0 with no backlinks and very old cached pages. And no, I have no hidden text or anything intentional that would cause a penalty and I do have links. Maybe Google is just looking at the high PR sites now, but I cant get any PR. I am getting discouraged. Any suggestions would be welcome. Patricia

[Chris_R]

Are you sure the other people involved are all on the same page. I found this in one of your robots.txt files:

Disallow: /*.asp

[not standard, but apparently SHOULD work for google]

and this in one of the meta tags:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,NO FOLLOW">

I am not sure what sites you are refering to, but just thought I would point this out in case you didn't know. They probably aren't causing the problem if they were there before.

[namniboose]

I did make the site that has 'index,no follow' because I didn't want it to index the reservations and rates pages (it's only a 3-page site). That particular site has been indexed regularly.

I don't know much about robots.txt files - looks like it is time to learn. I would be very grateful if you would sticky mail me the site that has Disallow: /*.asp in there.

Thanks for your detective work!

[div01]

I launched a site in mid-March that was only partially spidered last month (freshie) and was again partially spidered a few days ago. I would suggest letting Google figure out how its going to spider sites and wait it out.

[namniboose]

I think I didn't explain the situation properly. Google hasn't dropped any sites, it just doesn't picked up any changes for months.

This is happening to a lot of my client sites and I'm wondering if it is because they have a pagerank of less than 5?