Can these be reasons for PR0...?

Trying to figure out why Google doesn't like me

[kramfrog]

After four months, none of the pages of my website has any PR. I'm listed in Yahoo Directory and have about a dozen inbound links. Googlebot has read a good number of my pages, and has about 20 of them in its' index. Do any of these theories sound likely?

Theory 1
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Netscape 4.75 has a problem loading my site. Earlier (4.0x) and later (4.8) work fine. I'm told that 4.75 had a table problem that is likely causing this. Is google's html parsing code based on this version? Perhaps it is hiccuping trying to index my pages.

Theory 2
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After launching my site, I noticed that my domain had at some point in the past been registered to someone whose site was hacked. That got a link to my domain from a few sites that track defaced webpages. Is that going to cause the Google Gods to frown on me?

Thanks for any ideas!

[kaled]

Theory 1
If there is a problem with your page Google may fail to index it.
From [google.com ]

Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would.

Theory 2
If you find no fault with the HTML, emailing Google would do no harm. I'm not certain what email address is suitable for enquiries such as this - perhaps someone else can help.

Kaled.

[notsosmart]

You can put your url in your profile (you can always remove it later) and maybe someone will take a look at it.

Though I doubt that it is an html issue. Google will index a blank page if there are enough links pointing to it.

[cabbie]

[webmasterworld.com...]

[plasma]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld kramfrog.
Check your pages with a html-validator and a cachability engine.

[rogerd]

kramfrog, the thread cabbie referenced has some good info on domains that can't get off PR0. As far as Theory 2, it seems unlikely that Google would care if your site was defaced at a previous time. However, it could be as simple as an expired domain penalty.

[kramfrog]

Thank you everyone for your helpful responses. It seems to me that the "expired domain penalty" is by far the most likely explanation. Do I have any hope of getting Google to take pity on me? It seems pretty unreasonable to penalize me for this as:
a) Google makes no mention on their webmasters pages that this is something to beware of, and
b) I'm not getting any traffic that was intended for the previous domain, and I certainly wouldn't want it anyway (the only old links come from sites that track web-site defacements!).

I emailed search-quality@google about this on 9/17, and I actually got a response saying they were forwarding it on to an engineer - but I've heard nothing since then...

An idea: since I also own the .us version of my domain name, does it make sense to submit that to Google?

BTW, The URL to the site we're discussing is now in my profile.