Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I launched a new site back in May (3 months ago) and am still waiting to be indexed in Google.
I've submitted a sitemap, got some good backlinks to my site and am producing original content all of the time. The links throughout the site are text links styled with CSS. I'm not using any black-hat SEO techniques. Every page has a different title and description. I've really followed the rules on this one.
Looking at my sitemaps report, Googlebot is visiting me once or twice per week and is caching my index page all of the time (most recently on the 27 July). I have some content changing every week on the index page too.
MSN have indexed my entire site as have Yahoo and I rank high in their SERPs.
Google awarded me with a pagerank of 3 yet still I'm not listed in their index at all (have done the site:mysite.com etc.)
Does anyone have any ideas on what else I could try?
I'm beginning to wonder if I should submit a re-inclusion request despite doing nothing wrong? I don't even have affiliate adverts on the site!
:o(
Smells like a ban.
What on earth makes you say that?
Google is having problems right now. Its no secret that Big Daddy was not the success they had hoped for and lots of backend stuff is having to be done over ... at least that is what I would assume.
Just hang in there. If your site is being indexed regularly and you have a PR3, you should be fine whenever they get their act together. Don't do anything at all!I know its hard to play the waiting game, but I'm afraid that's what you are going to have to do. Just keep building pages and wait for it.
There isn't much else you can or should do in my opinion!
[edited by: Liane at 4:08 am (utc) on July 30, 2006]
err...after 6 years I still cant smell a ban. As said, just hang in there - write an article and syndicate it or something.
The domain was previously owned and operated, but I used the wayback machine to see what was there and it wasn't spammy at all. I purchased the domain after it had expired.
I just cannot understand why Google regularly caches my index page (I can see that in Sitemaps), gives me a PR of 3 but refuses to index me at all. It wouldn't be so bad if I was sandboxed even. At least I'd know that Google was taking notice. 3 months is a long time to have your index page show in Google's database.
Does anybody else have a similar problem with a recently launched site?
Get some deep links to other pages from other sites. Dont just link to your home page.
Redesign online since January. As of April 27 we lost most of our inbound pages in Google's index and just can't get Google to index our full site again..
Is it due to the redesign, or should we be concerned about a possible ban on our site?
