Good PR but No Listing!

[candyman]

My site is a PR6 on my index page and 4 and 5 on most all of my other pages. I have good inbound and outbound links, not using any deceptive tactics, and my site does not show up anywhere for my targeted keywords. Anyone else ever experience this?

Any info or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[ThomasB]

Candyman, first of all welcome to WebmasterWorld!

How old is your site? Did it rank well earlier?

[wingslevel]

I think the reason ThomasB is asking about dates is that lots of members were hit with the Florida penalty in late 2003. Try searching this site for florida penalty and you'll have lots of reading ahead of you.

Many of us (me for one) are still affected and unsure of what to do. In my case, my site is pr 5 with good links and also never any deceptive tactics. I have 12,500 pages in the index and I rank well on narrow, specific searches, but not even in top 1,000 on my main keyword combo (top 10 before Florida). Obviously my traffic and sales have been decimated.

Has anybody successfully recovered from a Florida penalty? I suppose the thing to do is get a new url and start over, but I wish I knew what I did wrong?

[Fiver]

candyman

when you do a site: query at google, do you see all of your pages indexed? Do you see snippets for the indexed pages, or a lack thereof?

[candyman]

hello all, thanks for responding. to answer question above when i do site:www.mydomain.com all my pages are there. My site has been online for about a year now, and about a month ago was the first time I started getting page rank. Fist it was just on my index page which is showing pr6 on my bar, and all other pages are between pr 3-5.

Curious what is a florida penalty?

Thanks again guys!

[RFranzen]

My situation is similar in some respects. About five weeks ago I began moving my sites from various free hosting services to my own domain. The services would not allow 301 redirection, so in meta tags I said "don't cache or index this, but continue spidering". The pages also autoforward to my new domain.

Google picked up the new pages very quickly, but for close to four weeks they all had pagerank 0. Two or three days ago most of them regained rank, up to 6 in what had been the highest ranked pages before. The new page rank has not yet affected SERP position. It is still as if they have PR 0.

Also curious to me is that various Googlebot spiders have been crawling my domain daily. I don't have any reference to compare, because raw web logs (well, webalizer reports) were never available to me before. Is such daily activity normal for a PR 6 site?

BTW, I autoforward the entry pages from my old sites, not each page. It's too much work having to edit every old page. I plan to drop the old sites completely once SERP placement recovers in Google and Yahoo. (My pages have disappeared almost completely from Yahoo, apparantly with not a single visit to my new pages by their Slurp bot.) In the meantime, could the partial mirroring of some pages be affecting what Google thinks of my domain?

-- Rich

[robotsdobetter]

Curious what is a florida penalty?

It means that Google found your site spamming their search engine, this could be using your keywords to much, linking to link farms or hidden text. That's just some ways you could get a penalty.

[candyman]

Hey RobotsDoBetter,

In your opinion would I still show a decent page rank if I was being penalized? I am not using any deceptive tactics that i am aware. Did notice though my index page has now gone from 6 to 5.

this is insane!

[dwilson]

Perhaps some of the suggestions I've been given apply.

[webmasterworld.com...]

Then again ... though I've risen to a PR5 & now have all my changes indexed ... I'm still not in the top 800+ sites.