I have no ranking of my index page

[a_beatrice]

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this before. I have a problem with my site, my main page has no ranking but my internal pages does. I have rankings on my several keywords before but now they are gone. Also, it was last crawled Jan. 24, 2008. I already removed the error pages on my webmaster tools and expected that they will crawl again but nothing happens. I don't know what's the problem.

Thanks in advance.

[Quadrille]

Do you have incoming links to your main page?
Do you have incoming links to inside pages?
Do the links to your main page go to example.com/ - or example.com/index.html?
Are you looking at www.example.com/ - or www.example.com/index.html?

ALWAYS advertise your site as domain.com - and be sure that all your internal main page linking goes to domain.com. Never to index.html (or .php etc., etc.)

[Bewenched]

Also make sure someone hasn't scraped your home page content.

check with copyscape and do a google search on your domain

www.example.com -allinurl:www.example.com

[a_beatrice]

Thanks guys for your reply. After researching and doing some trial and error, I have found out that my site have been spammed/hacked by this famous Spam Injection called GORO, even Matt Heaton's and Al Gore's blog too!

In Google view, have seen lots of medicine/drug links in my footer using a cloaking detector. That's why there are some errors during the crawling of my site.

We are now doing some ways on how to remove it from my site. :(

[AMac44]

Do you have any link(s) that provide more details on goro? I can remove the div and script in my infected page, but I'm not sure how to figure out how it happened in the first place. thanks

[sandpetra]

I also saw this sort of thing recently because the "home" page had "three home pages" after a server move (and dup isues) Google seemed to choke on =====

index.htm, index.html and default.htm

quicly sorted out with some 301 redirects

[brinked]

beatrice..i think i may know the reason why your homepage has no ranking...i had the same problem. can you tell me one thing...is your site a blog, informative, ecommerce, or media?

[otnot]

a-Beatrice I had the same problem last week. The same day my site was hacked Google crawled it and my index page just disappeared. I have also removed the offending links and hopefully Googlebot crawls me soon. Good luck!