Hit by penalty?

Not a PR0 but should be more

[steven q urkel]

Hi,

our company has a website, which is listed in the dmoz on a PR5 site and has other links from PR4+ sites. But we only have PR3 and the query link:ourdomain at Google gives back 0 results. We automatically forward our visitors from domain.com to domain.com/pages/ by Flash.
Could this be the reason of this PR3 and the links not showing?

[mack]

If you redirect from your index page to a specific page then the PR will land on your index page but none will be sent to your content pages because Google can't follow flash links. This will also mean that Google did not find any content when it visits your domain. If you need to use flash.. have a link (in normal syntax no js) saying "skip intro" and have that link also forward the user and spider to your real content.

Using flash like this can lead to poor rankings becuse of the PR loss that your flash page causes.

this example will sort of demonstrate.

if we call the site that links to you value 100 then the link to you gives your index page a value of 50. Then the flash page send value 0 to your content page. When Googlebot spiders your page it will only find the flash... it will then find no content to index and leave.

I read somewhere a while back that they had reported Google spidering flash links. I'm not sure if this is the case. I still belive links using flash are not spidered.

[steven q urkel]

We have a textlink on the index page for spiders.
But visitors are automatically forwarded to /pages/index.html
That means, that the spider follows the text link and get the content this way and the visitors should be forwarded automatically, or if they have not installed the flash-plugin the can click on the textlink, too.

So it is not possible that the spider did not find the content.

[mack]

You should be able to take a look in your log files to see if Google spidered your content pages.

It is possible that Google did not find your content. There may have been some down time on your server or something of this nature.

[steven q urkel]

Checked the log files , and Google has found all pages.
The query xyz site:www.mysite.com at Google brings them to result page.

[mack]

When you do a search for link:domain it is possible that Google has not indexed your home page, but followed the link on it. I asume that your internal site home links point to /content/index.html as oposed to /index.html

That way the internal pages have more links that the index page. This may be why your internal pages come up for "keyword site:yoursite.com"

[steven q urkel]

Hm, it's right that the "Home" links link to /pages/index.html and not to index.html but the index.html shows also up when searching keyword site:mysite
And when it shows up it must have been indexec, mustn't it?

[djgreg]

Hm, I think it has to be indexed if it appears on a search results page.