Is this a problem

developing new site

[textex]

I daveloped and have been marketing a new site. I searched for the URL is Google to see if it was picked up. It has not been. The site had a white pagerank the day I put it up.

I decided to go to ATW to check out the archive of the site. To my astonishment there was a prior owner and the site redirected to a major loan company. The only archive of the site was from 2001.

Site has no links to it.

Is this going to be a problem with getting indexed?
Does this fall into the expired domain penalty?

[takagi]

Site has no links to it.

That is the biggest problem. PageRank is about getting 'votes' to your page/site. Google might index some pages when you use the 'Add URL' function, but you really need links to get a nice PR and get/stay indexed.

The problem with expired domains has more to do with ignoring the links to the site before it was expired (so for Google you don't start with the existing links).

[textex]

Thanks...
All I needed to know.

[jcoronella]

If it's a good name, it may have been banned (and thus dropped by the previous owner). I don't think this is the kiss of death, but it may slow your domain a bit. Google has been releasing penalties after a period of time when sites have changed their ways.

The PR0 means nothing.

Get some incoming links, install the toolbar and visit your own page.

[yonnermark]

install the toolbar and visit your own page.

Site visits get you extra points?
Mark

[takagi]

No extra points. Although GoogleGuy denies it, some members here are sure that Google found new sites by a visit of somebody with the Google-toolbar. The current URL is automatically sent to Google (if the advanced features are enabled) in order to know what PageRank needs to be shown.

[Essex_boy]

Interseting point about the toolbar informing Google about a site, I assumed that this was the purpose of it...

Id be very surprised if this didnt happen.

[instand1]

Google finds a site with the help of the tool-bar, but still: you need at least two links from other sites to make it into the index.

[John_Caius]

Two links? What's wrong with one?

[Shak]

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sure i hear it mentioned at Boston, worth a go...

Shak