Odd Situation

Has anyone ever had a site that took months to be picked up by google? I set up a site in early Dec 2004, received DMOZ and yahoo dir listings in early Jan 2005 and googlebot has never been by. The mozilla user agent bot was by a few times but as I understand this bot is not for indexing.

So I guess my question is: If a site hasn't been spidered by Google in say 3 months after getting alot of links incl dmoz and yahoo what are the chances the site will ever be picked up?

PS - The only listing for the site is a supplemental result for the index page from April 2004 (I checked using the way back machine) before I owned the domain.

Thanks!
Frank

 

You're most likely screwed!

The previous owner may have been penalized or banned.

(something to check for next time before you buy a domain name)

 

ugh...also forgot to mention that I did write Google and they assured me the site wasn't currently banned or penalized...but I'll admit I do appear to be screwed

 

The first think I'd like to know is how do you get into dmoz in a month? I've had sites that were never picked up by google. I did have a site that was in the index before and was offline for a number of months. When I started using the domain again, it came up as a PR4 and was indexed within a week. Another domain name I had which has been gone for about a year now, was online for over five years and was never, to my knowledge, picked up by google at all. I couldn't begin to explain it, but it does happen. Usually getting a link in yahoo and/or dmoz should do the trick, if not you might be sitting on a domain that google has banned for one reason or another. What was it before you bought it?

 

http://www.google.com/addurl/

 

Your sandboxed.

 

just lucky with dmoz i guess...also google did add it to their directory...from the looks of the way back page the url was just a custom redirect to another url...heres the link:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040324171518/http://commodity-trading-software.com/

 

Where did you hear this?

 

I read it on a few other forums...cannot say it is definitely true though

 

No, 'cos sandboxed sites are also crawled by Google. I think Rob's right. The domain must be banned, as it is unusual for a site to be listed in DMOZ and Yahoo and not be crawled even once in three months.

 

I suppose i should wait till after the next google dir pr update and if nothing changes use the .org version of the domain name (which I also own) and had listed in google in a day with 1 link...no content on the page just the standard yahoo domain placeholder page..will be a pain to change all the inbound
links though

 

Just goes to show you ya can't believe everything you read.

 

if it were truly banned would the supplemental result even show for the site: search? Also, would Google allow a banned domain to be listed in their directory? That has me confused

 

also...other seem to be in a similiar situation:

http://forums.seochat.com/t23379/s.html