.org domains

[henjon]

Hi,

I got a .org domain that is about a year old. I have submitted it several times to SE's but i havent even been listed.. I have had no problems with my .com sites.. just this .org site.

Now i do not wish to give up on a year old domain, but it seems as if i can only get listed via other sites in links and such.. no direct listings:-(

[ASchmitt]

I have a .org site listed now for 4 weeks and allready it shows up in the top 3 results for the targeted keyword

[henjon]

ok.. congrats.. guess im not in G's favor then.

[greenleaves]

Does your .org site have unique content? Does it follow the SEs guidelines?

It sounds to me like you are being penalized. Most sites get listed a few days after domain register. You don't even have to submit anymore, google will find your site if only throught the whois link.

[henjon]

Well the site has just about 100 pages of unique content. thats excluding links, privacy and stuff like that..

[sem4u]

Have you tried using Google Sitemaps to see if there are any problems with crawling your site?

[ewc21]

I wonder if your site gets some decent inbound links.

[caveman]

henjon, have you tried going thru this list [webmasterworld.com] yet? It was primarily developed for people who've lost rankings after first having them, but many/most of the basic things you should check for are covered in this list.