google doesn't like my new site?

Hi all, I'm a part time webmaster and am a bit confused about a site I just put up in early december. About a week and a half ago googlebot visited 2 or 3 times and crawled only the index page, bit the listing has yet to show up in google. The site is:

commodity-trading-software.com
If someone could take a look at the page and see if there is a reason google may have blacklisted it or something it would be great. Could it be the affiliate logo links on the homepage?

Also, I have backlinks from the following sites:
consensus-inc.com
smotass.net
TradingAlchemy.com
apackardtrading.com
adtrader.com
options-trading-net.com
1source4stocks.com
1st-futures-broker.com.
fibmarkets.com
sniper.at
1st-options-broker.co.uk
investorlinks.com
futuresweb.com
financiallinksonline.com
daytrading.nu
brightcommoditybroker.com

which are all very much related,
also listed in the following directories

goguides
gimpsy
botw
bluefind
sevenseek
uncoverthenet (thank u guys for pointing this one out)
thisisouryear
wowdirectory

Is that not enough to be indexed by google?

Thank u very much!
Frank

 

You probably just need to give it more time. I know that's hard, but that's the deal with Google these days. BTW, nice clean-looking site

 

thanks, patience isnt my strong point

 

I agree with exam, this is just a matter of waiting, especially since the way google has been behaving as of lately.

 

also, i am using gzip compression, would that cause a problem?

ty
Frank

 

You're talking about only 2 or 3 weeks since the site went live. That's nothing for a new site in search engine time.

According to a whois, your domain didn't even exist until 26-nov-2004... barely a month ago.

 

the patience thing again Would would be something in search engine time?

ty
FR

 

That varies but a very important consideration is what and how many links point to your site.

See http://www.isedb.com/news/article/1067 as an example. Nothing magical about that link, by the way -- just one that was to hand.

You might also have a look at what Google has to say:

Google Information for Webmasters
Google FAQ
Dispelling Myths
Webmaster Guidelines
Getting listed in Google
Not listed in Google?
Google Warnings about bad practices of SEO Experts

 

I think your site is just having a sandbox effect sitting on it. Read more about it here

 

Your site might be banned by Google. Didn't find any result for link or cache.

1. Did you buy an expired domain? If so, you might have inherited the ban.

2. Do you link to bad sites? Sites that try to trick google? Do you yourself try to trick the googlebot? This could cause a ban.

3. I read somewhere that too many hyphens in the domain name got penalized by Google. You have two in your domain name which should be fine but maybe Google puts you in the sandbox for longer.

 

Its take a few more days I guess.. 6 weeks (appx)

Arun
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Google seems to start slow - it may visit your site once a month at first. Then, it depends.

I would also say that it never helps when your HTML doesn't match the declaration - your DOCTYPE says XHTML, but the source isn't close to be compliant. Your character sets don't match either (utf-8 vs. iso-8859-1).

Check this:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...automatically)&doctype=(detect+automatically)

Think about this way - a confused crawler isn't much useful.

J.D.