Banned URL? Or is it my server? Cant get on Google

[jdhuk]

Hello

Please would someone spare a minute of there time and give me some advise please.

I read some where to use the "WayBack Machine" website to check if my new domain was previously owned because of some problems I'm experiencing.

To my horror it was and they used the domain for some sort of search directory with the words www.mydomain.com website is underconstruction. This it seems was the case for 2 years.

Its only because of not being able to get listed on Google i have started to research the background of the domain. (let this be a lesson to all newbies)

I built the website on line using the easy method IE: Add text, pictures etc to a template paid for it and then pointed my domain to there server so in the browser it was my domain showing and not theres.

Now Google has crawled my website and listed in the serps not my domain but the templates company domain with my domain as an extension. (not good)

I have about 40 back links to my domain so this is how i figure the Googlebot found me.

*So did Google list the templates company domain because my domain is banned or is it because some sort of mix up with the crawl and the bot was confused what exactly the domain was?

If any one could have a look i will gladly PM the domain to you, i would appreciate it so much.

Thank you for taking time in reading this.

[diamondgrl]

Try writing Google to explain that the domain is under new ownership. Write what you just did on this forum in three sentences. No more. That's all you need and you don't want to waste their time.

[topr8]

welcome to WebmasterWorld

>>>I built the website on line using the easy method IE: Add text, pictures etc to a template paid for it and then pointed my domain to there server so in the browser it was my domain showing and not theres.

i'm not sure what you mean, but if you mean your pages are being served by the template owners server, this is your problem with some kind of frameset,
get a proper webhost there are a great many at less than $10 a month.

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To my horror it was and they used the domain for some sort of search directory with the words www.mydomain.com website is underconstruction. This it seems was the case for 2 years.

this is not your problem or the cause of your woes

[jdhuk]

Had a reply from Google

[snip]

I'm still unclear as to what I'm supposed to do now? I don't understand how my ISP can have anything to do with it.

*My domain is example.com

*Google have listed example.[hosting company].com

I have no links to the [hosting company] version.

*All editing work is carried out under example.[hosting company].com

Apparantly they use a "no-frames" system, if that helps.

*The DNS server: ns1.example.com ([hosting company])

*My registrar of the domain has the correct DNS (above)in place.

*It is not possible to change host of the website.

Other then starting again from scratch with a new website, new host is there anything i can do.

Thanks for your time

[edited by: ciml at 12:52 pm (utc) on Nov. 20, 2004]
[edit reason] No quotes please per ToS. [/edit]

[ddent]

You might want to look near the bottom of your page - I happened to notice there is a link back to the template/host people with a 1x1 gif...

[jdhuk]

Thanks ddent

Its a link that you can disable from the control panel. IE if you want there link displayed or not. I choose not to however this is still in the HTML as you spotted ....

<a href="http://www.example.com?[ query string ]"><img src="/s.gif" border=0></a>

I mailed them about this and they say its something they can not remove due to the nature of there system.

Would you say this is the cause of the problem, if it is I'm going to have to start all over :(

[edited by: ciml at 6:56 pm (utc) on Nov. 11, 2004]
[edit reason] Examplified. [/edit]