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Hello, all.
I have some problem with my domain name (probably).
Some month ago I have bought domain and started new web-site
www.domain.com
It was spidered by Fast, Lycos and some other SE.
But not Google...
It has some backlinks from other sites and a _lot_ ones
from friend of my site (his site is good indexed by Google).
Also I used www.google.com/addurl.html to submit my site to Google.
I wait 2 month and no result...
By my logs Google did not come to my site at all...
Then I started another related site www.domain2.com
(as subdomain of first site and the same hosting company, so they both
have the same IP)
It also has some backlinks from other sites and a _lot_ ones from
friend of my site.
And this my new site was spidered by Google within a short period...
What the matter? Both sites have dynamic content and similar
CGI-parameters (example):
/?b=NAME&c=2&m=4&p=1
Then I noticed that my first domain was used by somebody before
in 2001, 2002 years, whereas second domain - no.
May be this domain was penalized?
I used web.archive.org to determine this and saw that old site had
some lines in <head>
<META NAME='GOOGLEBOT' CONTENT='NOARCHIVE'><META NAME='robots' CONTENT='index,follow'><META NAME='robots' CONTENT='noarchive'>
<META NAME='robots' CONTENT='noarchive'>
<META NAME='robots' CONTENT='index,follow'>
May be this cause that my present site is not spidered by Google?
Can I check it somewhere?
Can I check somewhere is my domain penalized or not by Google?
Thanks...
It is possible your site was penalized when it was owned by someone else. Google is working on making changes so it knows when a domain name expires and is then bought by someone else, but I am not sure if this is active yet or not.
If you have the Google toolbar, does your site have PageRank yet? If it is showing any PR at all, you shouldn't be too worried, Google knows its there, and has deemed it worthy of PR. But right now, a white bar doesn't mean it is banned, but it could also mean Google knows about it but hasn't decided what PR to give it yet, so don't worry if you have the white bar. And if it is a grey bar, it means Google just hasn't found it for inclusion in the latest update.
Unless the site was in the last month or two under previous ownership, the old metas shouldn't make a difference.
And Google does have trouble with some dynamic URLs, but if your other site has similar dynamic URL structure, and Googlebot is indexing them, it shouldn't be a problem.
Make sure your site isn't doing something it shouldn't (ie. hidden text, keyword stuffing) that could be the reason your site isn't indexed.
You could also try sending email to webmaster@google.com with the subject line reinclusion request, and explain you think the domain name might have been removed from the index due to the actions of the previous owner.
If you have the Google toolbar, does your site have PageRank yet? If it is showing any PR at all, you shouldn't be too worried, Google knows its there, and has deemed it worthy of PR. But right now, a white bar doesn't mean it is banned, but it could also mean Google knows about it but hasn't decided what PR to give it yet, so don't worry if you have the white bar. And if it is a grey bar, it means Google just hasn't found it for inclusion in the latest update.
Actually, all my pages has white Google toolbar.
But Google _never_ visited my first site
(by server logs)
And Google does have trouble with some dynamic URLs, but if your other site has similar dynamic URL structure, and Googlebot is indexing them, it shouldn't be a problem.
Second site has similar URL structure, but
if first site has only numbers as parameters
(m=1&p=2&b=145&s=),
second site also has some words in them
(m=1&p=2&b=some_word&s=).
In some thread I've read that Google don't like many parameters (more than 2-3)...
But now I've decided to make my important page with statis
url:
important_page.shtml
and in it:
<!--#include virtual="/?b=5&c=&m=12&p=1&s=" -->
Make sure your site isn't doing something it shouldn't (ie. hidden text, keyword stuffing) that could be the reason your site isn't indexed.
No it doesn't.
BTW if Google never visited my site it
could not notice that I make something bad at all...
You could also try sending email to webmaster@google.com with the subject line reinclusion request, and explain you think the domain name might have been removed from the index due to the actions of the previous owner.
OK. I'll try this.
Do they answer on such requests?
Thanks again...
Do they answer on such requests?
I don't think they do, I think most sites just "reappear". Do a search here for "reinclusion request" and you'll find some more information on them. I know some WebmasterWorld members have had success with this.
