SEO Problems - De-listed, Not Crawled For Months!

Hi everyone,

I am having some real problems with one of my websites and Google. The homepage is no longer in the indexed and most of the pages haven't been crawled since the 15th of June.

Throughout this period we have continued to develop the website and get more incoming links. We have over 2,000 inbound links acroding to Yahoo Site Explorer.

The website is http://www.Vegetable-Gardens.co.uk

Can anyone tell me why I am having problems with getting this site on Google?

 

I would suggest a few things:
1. Create a robots.txt file.
2. Create sitemap and submit to google.
3. Try to get backlinks (as many as possible)
4. Submit your site to web directories, I am sure you can find some service for this on DP forum.

PM me if you need any more help.

 

We have created a sitemap and subited it to Google, we are adding new inbound links to the website daily and the site has also been submitted to at least 500 directories (Listed in DMOZ and some other directories).

I don't think that's the problem...

Thanks

 

There are 25 pages indexed, but not the home page.
site:vegetable-gardens.co.uk

You have duplicate content issues. Use http://www.copyscape.com/ to resolve the duplicate content on your home page.

 

Of course he have problems with the homepage and with robots, indexing....
Add in your index after
<meta name="description" content="Veget....................>
this:
<meta name="keywords" content="keywords targeted by your website">
<meta name="expires" content="never">
<meta name="distribution" content="Global">
<meta name="robots" content="index,FOLLOW">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="1 Days">

How you expect to call the crawler again?

 

You don't need any of that.

 

Maybe, i`m just talking from a lot of experiments
All decent websites using meta`s....so

 

does your webmaster tools showing any crawl error?

 

Your onsite html looks okay. (I'd switch to absolute URLs, but that doesn't really address the problem at hand).

I'd continue to build links, improve content, etc.

Brandon

 

You can also request for re inclusion.

 

Some ideas

Looks like the site was started in May 2007 and already has 2200 links to the front page.

If thats right then suspect you've been belted over the head for two things.

(a) Your site is really new so you've been placed in the sandbox for a bit - cure = time
(b) You've been adding links way to fast - its a really good way to have your site disappear from view. Slow down your linking to something under 10 per day.

I'm with Brandon, keep getting links and wait for it to sort out. You could be in the sandbox for up to a year then when your "released" all will be well.

Hope this helps

Regards
Brian

 

CHANGE REVISIT TIME

you have to change revisit time to atleast a week. When you ask the search engines to come back every day and u have no fresh content they will penalize u EACH time. It is minimal but if they come bak for a whole week and u aint got new content :O oops ur screwed. If you fair fresh I advise a week. If not go monthly.... your rankings wont increase if the search engines just keep coming back unless u got new content.

Once you do this google might be able to get you back. You may wanna chek around to find if ur site is now 'bloaklisted' Possibly submit one of them forms asking for google reinclusion.... or just post ur ink in ur siggy ad see wat appens.

And ur site has nothing... wth??

 

Put your site in your signature for god sake! this is the best way to call google bot to crawl your site.

 

Just had a look, I didn't think about looking for more information there. It comes up and say's... "We can't currently access your home page because of an unreachable error."

Done

I have already done this

This may well be part of the problem but I don't think this is the whole of the problem.

Thanks for all your help and advice

 

You still have duplicate content issues. That is the main issue.

 

I didn't really think a few words off the homepage would be an issue really. And the site that has some of our content links back to us.

 

That's my bet on what the problem is.

 

Agreed,,,, if G's webmaster tools are telling you that your website is unreachable that needs to be fixed first. Then after thats sorted out you can apply for a re-inclusion request if need be.

 

So would changing hosts help? I changed to my current host at around the same time Google stopped visiting the site, maybe that is what is causing the issue?

 

Have you contacted the admin at the host?