Gray Bar for the second month

What should I do?

[Night_Hawk]

After last update my site had a gray bar, from discussing it on this forum last month i concluded that maybe the server was down at the time of the deep crawl or update.

Well, this month i did get partial deep crawl, but freshbot was in my site often and i got some new pages to be indexed.

If there is a penalty on my site, why some of my keyword are ranking high? if there is no penalty , then why my site is having a gray bar for the seconfd month now?

What should i do? should i contact Google? is the email address [e-mail] or is it [e-mail]

Please Help.

[lazerzubb]

I think only Google can answer your question (That is if you have a penalization)
And the biggest chance is that you will not get an answer if you send them an email.

Just go through your site and check if there is anything which you have done to optimize your site, which you did for the search engine and not the user, if you did it for the search engine, try removing it and see if that helps.

[Interent Yogi]

Yeah that is ashame that we can't find if we have any penalties. I did something that was not 100% legimate,( Not that i knew at the time) before I surfed in here and got the real scoop on SEO. The site is still carrying a decent PR, but I am sure has few particular key word penatlies.

So not sure weather to keep working with the site or get a new domain and start with a clean slate. As these things I did can't be undone. I guess google is the only one that can help. As you said lazerzubb not a big chance on reply to that question.

[lazyz]

One of my domains had a grey bar for three update cycles..

The few links going to the site, evidently didn't count... (Maybe a penalty of some sort)

Prior to this last update, I recieved a trade with a PR5. It's now back in the index.

[webman]

If you know that you have enough links to qualify for PR, then it could be another problem.

It is my theory that certain groups of sites that are linked together and are in categories that are often spammed (like debt consolidation) have gotten the grey PR bar penalty. I'm not sure if it will last forever or if the penalty will eventually fade. One of my sites has been hit with it for about five months and I keep hoping it returns. If you think this could be the case, check the sites you link to and see if they have also lost their PR.

[Night_Hawk]

>>Just go through your site and check if there is anything which you have done to optimize your site, which you did for the search engine and not the user, if you did it for the search engine, try removing it and see if that helps.

I was planing in moving my site to another server, and i was not doing any optimization on the old site since i was busy with making the new site more user friendly.

>>Prior to this last update, I recieved a trade with a PR5. It's now back in the index.

My site is indexed and i am in the first page for some of my keywords.

>>If you know that you have enough links to qualify for PR, then it could be another problem.

I had a PR6 in the augest update then it faded to PR5 until the December update.

I only have one outbound link and that site has a PR6.
but i do not have much of incomming links

[tigger]

I would say you've picked some penalty from google. In the October update one of my sites dropped from a PR6 to PR0, but it's still got some rankings in google but not as good as previous months and my traffic has dropped to a crawl, I did contact Google with no joy