Whats the deal here? Am I being punished?

My pages are in the database, but non searchable

[Paul_Paul]

I'm new around here so I hope you don't mind me asking a question.

When I do a site listing ( site:www.mydomain.com "www.mydomain.com") I find almost all of my pages on my site.

But when I search the site using keywords that I know would trigger a listing I get nothing! Not page 1..2..3..10

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your response!

-paul

[heini]

Hi Paul, welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Could be you are just very badly ranked. You could search for a unique text snippet from your site, in quotation marks, to see if it brings up pages from your site at all.

Also: what is your toolbar PR? and what happens if you type in your domain?

[takagi]

Hi Paul. First try

site:www.mydomain.com keyword

to check if Google can find the keyword. If you unknowingly mesh up with the HTML tags, your browser could still show a nice page while Google cannot find the text. If you open the #1 on this search, check the PR and the cache of this page. And tell us what you see.

[Paul_Paul]

Ouch... Big fat 0.

The story is this: I have a client that wants 2 separate price listings, one for in state, and out of state, and they dont want the in-state to see the out-of-state pricing.

We've been fighting this problem for a long time. We've finally decided itd be best to get a totally new domain and duplicate the site on the new domain and change the pricing. I've put a NO INDEX tag on all the pages that were duplicate in googles index and they are starting to disappear. But the pages that Ive optimized and submitted are no where to be found in a regular search and like I said...I have a 0 page rank. Do you think its related? Do you think that google will ever let me off the hook?

Also, in the past I used to use WebPosition Gold....their auto submit. But I havent in about 5-6 months now.

Thank you SO much for your help.
-paul

P.S. Ive developed another site that is almost identical in layout and I get great listings with my targeted key words. So I know the design is good. I think Google is just mad.

[RawAlex]

Webposition Gold is sort of like "auto-ban gold", IMHO.

Alex

[trillianjedi]

How does Webmaster Gold work?

It's obviously the kiss of death to a website. Do they have a free add-URL option? It's not possible to give other sites the kiss of death is it? Sincererly hope not.....

TJ

[Paul_Paul]

Yeah, tell me about it.

WPG Has an auto-submitter. You can schedule your submissions to run at a certain time with a particular engine.

Nice idea....but

The weird thing is that I used WPG on other sites and I havent had the same problem. I dont use it anymore on any of my sites.

-paul

[trillianjedi]

But how does it check that you actually own that domain?

What if the competition submits your domain via Kiss of Death Gold?

TJ