IP Only Listing for New Site

Am I banned?

[textex]

I have a new site that I have been promoting pretty intensly. Like other new sites I have, this site is not showing in SERPS yet.

However, when I search for the url it does not come back as being listed in the index. When I click the "contains the term" link, the site's IP is returned as being in index.

I discovered that there was a previous owner, but I don't know what they did with this domain.

Being that the IP is only returning is results, is the domain banned. If so what can I do?

[textex]

anyone?

[DaveN]

does not sound banned just a reverse dns lookup problem, try moving to a different ip address that may sort it or drop G a line.

DaveN

[ciml]

> New Site

I wouldn't worry until it's had time to stabilise. Maybe a virtual hosting issue that will be resolved now that your site is up?

[greenfrog]

It seems as if it will take a little time to resolve the dns issue.

Did you submit to google with the IP address before the domain name was resolving?

[textex]

"does not sound banned just a reverse dns lookup problem, try moving to a different ip address that may sort it or drop G a line. "

What does that mean?
Who would I write to at Google? What would I write to them?

[greenfrog]

A while back I had a problem with submitting a new site and google had issues indexing it.

What I did back then was return to www.google.com/addurl and submit the site back into the engine ONLY ONE more time, obviously using the correct url and not the ip address. If you've already returned there to do this, I wouldn't keep throwing it in. I hate to say it but sometimes there is nothing you can do but wait, and wait, and wait.

This seemed to work for me...but I have only had one issue like this.

[cabbie]

I have had this happen to me.It will resolve to your name within a few weeks.I have promoted some new sites heavily as well and its not unknown to be top of the serps with just your ip showing instead of your domain name.

[Salsa]

I discovered that there was a previous owner, but I don't know what they did with this domain.

textex, have you checked it out at [archive.org ] to see what sort of site the previous owner pointed it to? It may (or may not) give you some peace of mind.

[textex]

The site was a redirect to an affiliate link.

[2_much]

When this happens it's usually a DNS problem. Also, because you recently re-launched the site, it could be that freshbot picked it up only by the IP, and will later come back to re-index it properly.