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The PR4 site: is it indexed by Google? Do you find any info if you search for the URL/domain name, (like www.yoursite.org)? You could try getting some new backlinks and also adding some fresh content.
The PR1 site: You say that some pages are indexed by Google. If you do a search, like above, for the URL/domain name, do you see any info? If only the index page is missing, then there is a chance that there is a duplicate content problem, (although it could be something else). The googlebot might not be very interested in a PR1 site, so to make it visit it more often you should get some better backlinks, (incoming links from other quality sites), and also add fresh content.
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1) If you have no robots.txt file - create a blank one.
2) If you have a robots.txt file, validate it.
3) If hosted by GoDaddy, search for recent threads - there may still be a problem with Googlebot.
4) Ensure that Googlebot can find the site by navigating plain html links.
5) Search for "a unique phrase on your website". Maybe someone has ripped off your content and Google recognises the wrong copy as the original.
Kaled.
It might be similar to your problem.
Should not be a Duplicate content problem, but its penalised probably.
Please read the above thread and come out with more info.
Good luck!
This may be a silly question, but what exactly do you mean by "backlinks"? I've seen this term used elsewhere in posts and I'm not sure I understand it. Does it mean linking to other pages within your own website?
what exactly do you mean by "backlinks"?
They are the incoming links to a specific page. They can be internal site links or ones coming from other domains. When people talk about them, or getting more of them, usually they're thinking of the ones from other domains.
so backlinks are basically the same thing as reciprical links?
Nope, a lot of my external backlinks for instance aren't reciprocal. I don't link to them, but they do link to me.
Sometimes people will stumble across your site and add a link to it without you being aware of it until you notice it in the logs.
<edit>For clarity</edit>
[edited by: Stefan at 4:15 pm (utc) on Dec. 9, 2003]
For instance, Site A links to Site B and site B also links back to Site A. Each link is located on a links page and points to the other sites main index page. That's reciprocal linking. These links are considered backlinks as well because they point to a page.
Now, site A links to site B, but site B does not reciprocate that link. This is a backlink to site A (likely index page), but NOT a reciprocal link.
