Did G bot find me? Finally? (Mediapartners-Google/2.1)

[jonw440]

I have an entry in my log showing "Mediapartners-Google/2.1" with these ip adresses.
64.140.165.133
64.140.165.132
65.214.44.189
66.50.174.222
70.98.190.242
207.250.143.166
207.235.6.96
192.80.68.68
24.107.228.45
217.212.224.146
209.237.238.178

[fatpeter]

Thats the adsense bot. Did you recently put adsense on your site?

[jonw440]

Yes I did. Damn. I thought it may have been the index bot. Oh well, but Thank You for your reply! :)

[inbound]

Getting Google to 'find you' should be a simple task of gaining at least 1 good inbound link. Hey presto, problem solved.

It shouldn't take Google long to make a visit after seeing your link on a PR4+ page.

[Frequent]

And don't be too concerned about getting PR4 links. A link from any non-banned site will get you found quicker than no links at all.

If you have a friend with an active blog (one that is actually indexed) a good link about your site in his/her blog will get you indexed faster than anything lately.

Freq---

[jonw440]

I bought a 3 month advertising program (forum vendor) for a PR4 site.(vendorship started on Dec 1st)

[Frequent]

And, since you haven't even been spidered yet, do you feel that whatever you paid for that "package" was worth it?

Clearly, the "vendor" is either banned, or has all these links you are paying for set to "nofollow".

Just find as many good sites as you can related to your niche (but not direct competitors) and start asking for a link to your site.

If your site doesn't suck at least 5% will give you a link. More if you reciprocate.

Freq---

PS- "Traffic packages" are almost always (99.9999%) worthless.

[bobothecat]

I bought a 3 month advertising program (forum vendor) for a PR4 site.(vendorship started on Dec 1st)

Well... that could be a death knell.

[jonw440]

The site is a dodge truck message forum. I am one of 25 paid sponsors. We all have random banner ads displayed on the different sub boards.
"dodgetalk"

[inbound]

Good news:

You are clearly in an area where people are interested in the subject of your site. Automotive stuff usually has a band of dedicated followers, get in touch with people who have made sites 'for the fun of it' and ask them to link to you, you could legitimately add a 'resources' page to your site as your visitors are likely to like the fact thet you link to enthusiasts' sites.

Good luck

[Frequent]

I checked a few of your older posts. I see your site has been up for a little while and you are indexed by MSN and Yahoo according to a past post.

It may very well be that you are simply sand-boxed by Google. (assuming of course that you believe in sand-boxes, not everyone does)

Given the nature of your advertising package (banners- all on one site) I would not be concerned about it hurting you. If it is delivering sufficient traffic to justify the cost you can certainly keep it running. If you only bought it for the PR then it was probably money wasted.

As was mentioned, the automotive enthusiast field is probably the easiest one to get links from other sites.

Since you are likely active on a number of other boards you've probably got a number of friends there that have their own little project sites. Appeal to them for links.

Freq---

[jonw440]

I did advertise on dt because I have been a member there for 3 years si I didn't mind "helping the forum" out monetarily. I have received quit a few hits from it. My site is detailing supplies(waxes,polishes,etc) this isn't the best time of year for the store as most of the country is cold and not many people think of washing their cars.

My site is indexed by G (main page) url and "similar pages" under that. But thats all. I guess I will just keep plugging along and it will come some day.

When there ad-words bot was found on my log I just got excited for a few minutes...

Thanks guys for the replies!