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For the past 3 or 4 months, I have had a web site up and available on a domain name. The trouble is, it resides at an IP address from a domain that was rumored to have the PR0 penalty.
What happened was this - I called my hosting company, and they set me up with one of the IP's used previously, for a client that just canceled their hosting package.
So, I thought all would be well.
Since the site launched, I've gotten links, manually submitted through Google's ADD URL page, and everything else that I have seen or heard about here.
Still, my site is not listed, and has not once been hit by GoogleBot.
What can I do to get the site listed? It's a nonprofit, enthusiast group page, of a popular topic (car club site) - with no affiliate programs, banners, or even scripting. Just plain HTML.
Any ideas on what I can do to get the site in the index?
But, to the paranoid, you certainly raise a good question. I guess someone could make a case that the ip, and the locally assigned address appended to it at the server level, could have belonged to a sketchy character. (Think of the IP as an apartment buildings address, and the locally assigned address as your apartment number).
OR, your host may be hosting a block of abusive spammers and hackers and that an entire RANGE of ip's have been blocked.
Run your ip at the spam database checker at dnsstuff.com and see what it tells you.
Anybody else have ideas? This has got my curiousity up.
The report shows that I am listed under "XBL" (xbl_selwerd_cx), though, I've never once used an email from that domain. They note though, that they do report on IP ranges, not individual IPs.
