Is my site facing any panelty in Google

[SDani]

Hi All,

I am confused.. and thought may be someone here can help me. (I landed up at Digital Point to view my Yahoo page rank, which is zero :( )

On Google, if I do site:mysite.com, it does show up and lists my home page, which is NOT listed as a "Supplimental Result". If I do a search for a phrase from my home page, my home page is listed as a "Supplimental Result". I understand that supplimental result pages are not part of main index, so here are the symptoms:
1. My home page comes up as "Supplimental Result"
2. My page rank is Zero.
3. I have 22 incoming links, mostly from university personal home pages where people have listed favourite links.. many of them are PR4-5-6.
4. These links exist for almost two months and my PR is still zero, after two PR updates in past one month.

Does that mean my site is facing some panelty ?

Appreciate any responses on this.

SD

[digitalpoint]

What is the URL of your site?

- Shawn

[SDani]

Was not sure if posting URL is okay in the forum.. its http://www.chambal.com

[digitalpoint]

You aren't penalized by Google... you just need more links.

- Shawn

[SDani]

Thanks Shawn :)

[sarahk]

off topic:

it would be good if this form: <form action='http://www2.chambal.com/pricecomp.aspx' method='post'>
was a get not a post. then I could bookmark, post on my site the following http://www2.chambal.com/pricecomp.aspx?csin=1869415957
http://www2.chambal.com/pricecomp.aspx?csin=1869415620

which does actually work but you don't make it easy for me.

These books are listed on Froogle but I'm guessing you're not using that data.

As an Author's wife I know that we make more $ selling direct than via the stores so you'd be helping authors everywhere if you could list their personal sites (either by querying Froogle or having a submit Authors store feature).

Sarah

[SDani]

Thanks for the input Sarah. Yes, the form works for both, get and post.
We cannot use Froogle's data, but submit Author's store feature is really great. I will share this with my team and we will implement it if we can. (most likely we can).

[bflatman10]

Have you manually built up your database or just linked the data in it from else where?

[dmm2020]

Google only pushes page rank about every 3-4 months. You should focus on the following to bring your page rank up:

back links - these can be in the form of links in your signature
submit to as many search engines and directories as you can
Build on traffic and keywords - people coming to your site count as a vote towards page rank
Write unique articles about your website with good quality content and submit them to blogs
Keep your website up and running. Google does not rank new websites for a reason. Plan on being there for the long haul if you eventually want good PR.


Keep in mind that the weight of the page the link is on counts towards your page rank. Reciprocal links are frowned on by Google, yet you need the traffic that they generate.