I have a nice domain name "BargainAustralia.com" that I want to make into an online Australian coupon type website. But it was just parked for a year as I had no time to develop it and Google deindexed it. I then put a wordpress blog on it but I see Google won't index it so I have not bothered to add any content as it might just be a waste of time. The domain will expire in a few weeks but I would like to renew it and have it indexed. So would I be wasting my time trying to get this domain indexed, if not what type of website do I need to create to get it indexed? Other tips would be appreciated.
First of all don't just leave such an old domain. If you will purchase new domain and will register there is a chance that till three months it remains in sandbox. As you domain age is good I suggest you to rebuild a complete website and update content frequently. This will help you site get indexed. One more thing content should be completely unique. It should not be copied from any of the site.
Send your site for reconsideration from Webmaster Tools. There you can read about it - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35843&hl=en
Better resubmit your site and xml map on web master tool. It will make your site reindexed by google.
His site is old and he changed all structure. After this, Google kicked it from its index. It seems that site was banned. So conversation with support will be more effectively than only resubmitting sitemap and wait month-two-or-three.
try reconsideration and while waiting for results just begin with link building... even without asking google to reconsider your website, google will find links and reindex your website again... don't worry... I have experience with many websites that were dead more than a year and after adding new content and few links they began to appear in google index.
Hello, You can generate link bait and submit it to social networks applying elevated authority accounts.
ok thanks for all the tips, they have helped me work out what I will do. I will start adding content to the site and add a nice theme etc. I will then get out and try to get some links back to it. I will also create a site map and submit that. I might also add a twitter feed etc and maybe even buy a cheap .info domain, wait for it to get indexed and 301 that to it as I think that can help get it indexed to.
It is NOT banned. You do not need a reconsideration request or anything like that. go into your admin section of wordpress then DASHBOARD > OPTIONS > PRIVACY and select to allow search engines. At the moment it is set to block all search engines, which is the default setting untill you have finished setting it up.
My suggestion would be registering a Google webmaster account and submit your new sitemap regularly. Of course, building back links from high PR sources would also be really helpful for indexing purpose. all the best,
There are some options 1. Make website based on Wordpress or other blog platform and use "ping" feature to help Googlebots acknowledge about the changed. 2. Acquire some authority link, a largest one you could ever find. This way it could help Googlebots acknowledge the change as well. You might keep that backlinks if you prefer to help stabilize your ranking, otherwise you may discontinue that link after Google acknowledge the change already. 3. Create a new domain and 301 redirect to your main domain. Most of new registered and built up will have a high chance of backlinks and ping from domain provider itself. This could help your main domain being acknowledged about the change as well. You should get your website being verified via Google Webmaster Tools, then submit the sitemap at last. This may not helping your website a quick index since it has been parked for a long period of time. However, this could help your web pages being indexed properly afterward.
Your page source shows you have robots meta tag setup NOT to index your posts and pages <meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' /> Code (markup): Just go to Settings>Privacy and choose to allow search engines. That'll solve it.
Wow, your right it was set to block Search engines. I have changed it now. I'm not sure why Wordpress have that as the default but I have a few other blogs I better check as well. thanks a lot, I'm sure this will help. thanks to the other posters, I will read those other ideas now too....