How to find bad neighbors

[tkroll]

My site is PR0 with no backlinks showing. My code is plain and simple, so I am left to guess that someone who is linking to me is the cause? Is this a safe assumption?

If so, is there any efficient criteria or way to find which links are bringing me down?

Thanks!

[ownerrim]

someone linking to you? Unless something's changed, I think you've got that reversed. The accepted dogma is that LINKING OUT TO a bad neighborhood can potentially hurt you. Since you have no control over who LINKS TO YOU, you can't be penalized. And even the bad neighborhood thing is a bit iffy. You have no control over what happens to a site you've linked out to. I.E, they could be a legit site when you link to them and a "bad" one two years later.

[amznVibe]

Before you assume anything, how old is your site? Does it show up properly in other search engines?

[jcoronella]

Make sure you've gone over the checklist:

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[tkroll]

Thanks for the replies. I will now remember the old rhyme about assuming and double check my facts with the link provided.

My site has been up for about 3 months now. I seem to remember backlinks showing about a month ago, but now none are there.

[tkroll]

Hello again. I've looked over the "Dropped Site Checklist."

All my pages are in Google. All my main pages including numerous variations url arguments. Nice.

My server has been up 100% since my site has been online.

I have redirects off links on every page. They link to a page that redirects to another with a PHP header("location:****"); construct. There are between 20-50 of these per page. These are not frivolous links but part of my content.

No interlinking site.

I use a site wide template. No other sites with this template. No competitors involved. No robots.txt.

No cloaking.

Using AdSense.

The one thing I do employ is a site map, which links to a series of text pages, with liberal use of <h> tags, that displays my past daily content.

Thanks for all the help

[Marcia]

>>My site has been up for about 3 months now.

Give it a bit more time and see if all your pages are in the index.

>>I seem to remember backlinks showing about a month ago, but now none are there.

Checking backlinks at Google now tells nothing. Check them at Yahoo.

[tkroll]

Marcia,

All my pages are indexed in Google.

Backlinks show in Yahoo, but my homepage is indexed as my very old 'coming soon' page. What's up with that?

Thanks!

[Marcia]

>>my homepage is indexed as my very old 'coming soon' page

Strange. I had a coming soon page up for a while, changed it twice this week and added a couple of pages with links from the homepage - and both times the new version was indexed and updated in the cache, too. Of course, it could revert back I suppose.

Make sure you've got a link in from a page that's frequently crawled. And you might try adding a new site page with a link to it from the homepage, then see if Googlebot shows up on the new page.

Another thing - if it's a domain you've recently acquired, check the Wayback Machine to see if it's got any history behind it.