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Googlebot refuses to crawl site

Clean site hasn't been crawled in 3 months. Time for a new domain?

         

QuazBotch

2:08 am on Aug 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



The googlebot hasn't touched this site since mid May, when it was dropped. It won't even touch robots.txt.

The site has:
-Incoming links from at least 30 pages, as high as PR5, with some keywords in the anchor text, on pages that are in google's index.
-Valid transitional XHTML on almost every page
-Changed servers to a totally different IP
-a validated robots.txt
-Used a 301 redirect to point google to this site(the redirect site was crawled and dropped, but this site never recieved a hit from it)
-Been redesigned and rewritten from scratch
-Very little downtime
-No outgoing links to bad neighbourhoods
-No outgoing links to other domains on the same server (as far as I know anyway)
-Sent a reinclusion request in June, and got the usual "sent to our engineers" message
-No hidden text or anything else bannable

Searching for the site's name brings up pages that link to it, but not the site itself.

Before this, the front page was crawled every 3-4 days. I've looked through this forum and can't find a similar case. Would it be smart to start over and get it a new domain name, or see what happens in another 3 months?

MHes

7:16 am on Aug 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Familiar story.

I suspect you are gone for a very long time. Changing server plus new content may even make google think the site is now under new ownership, so you could try some new links in, but its a long shot.

Whether you agree or not, you have been deemed a site they do not want to list. However, I bet you get traffic from elsewhere and the site could grow in the future as other engines do better, so don't abandon the site, the 'google' of tomorrow may love it :)

As far as google is concerned, new site, new ip, fresh content and 6 months to start getting decent traffic...sigh

Don't wait, get on with it now.

Good luck.