Blacklisted in Google?

Possable black listing by google problems with being indexed

[Shadi]

I have had my website <snip> for some months now and have set up various links around the web, as well as submitted it to the google index, however i was visited only once, and not indexed (no PR even). Is there something wrong with my site? Could it have been banned by the previous domain owner's actions?

Many thanks in advance
Shadi Almosri

[edited by: Marcia at 6:55 pm (utc) on April 2, 2003]
[edit reason] no specific site reviews, please [/edit]

[Dynamoo]

Hi Shadi,

I think the rule is no specific URLs at WebmasterWorld.. however, your site appears to have zero links going into it, so it's an "orphan" with no connections to the rest of the web.

If you're using the Google Toolbar you'll see a grey bar, which just indicates that the site isn't known to Google. Also there's nothing in the Google cache. Generally speaking a WHITE bar indicates a penalty (i.e. PageRank 0).

[le_gber]

Shadi, Welcome to Webmasterworld

First I think you should remove the url of your site (it's against WW policy to display url's).

Then, I think that the problem lies in the way your pages are dynamically built with php you only have 1 page = index.php and the content changes dynamically in it. I don't think it's a good way to optimize your site to get it spidered

Leo

[vincevincevince]

it looks okay to me... but i had a similar site that had the same problem. it never got indexed, i just ditched the site and started a new one. what's a few hundred dollars of work anyway?

[Clovis]

shadi,

a few suggestions...

add a site map at the bottom of your homepage that link directly to your other main pages. if the others are all dynamic, build 5-10 static pages and link to them. remember, most spiders have issues following dynamic pages, most URLs containing & or? are difficult to read. build pages www.yourdomain.com/about-us and so on with good text content and roughly 250 words or more.

build a links page, also must be linked to homepage and static.

lastly, exchange links with websites that have a pr no less than 4. unfortunately this isn't too easy, and i recommend you do it yourself and not use any link exchange programs. most (not all) are link farms that will get your site in major trouble.

after these things are done, stay tuned to this forum and be patient.

[garylo]

...and have set up various links around the web

Yep, as Dynamoo said, no external incoming links whatsoever. Google will only index sites that have at least one external link pointing to it from a site that is already indexed by Google.

[takagi]

Entering a site's URL (for example: www.mydomain.com) in Alltheweb [alltheweb.com] shows some basic information known at this SE about a site. Like the number of inbound links, the number of pages. But there is also a link to

'See how "www.mydomain.com" used to look'

In your case you can see, the domain existed already in May 2001. It looks there was only a redirect at that time so it is most likely the domain was never really used.

More important: inbound links missing.
Altheweb doesn't show any inbound links for your site. Usually Alltheweb shows more links than Google because Google will only show links from pages with PR4+ to pages with PR4+ when searching for

link:www.mydomain.com

To get rid of the gray bar, try to get links to your site.