Hi Guys, Let me brief my problem. I own a domain(Link in signature) and I have registered this website on Jul-2009. I have built a decent website, but google is not crawling my website. Here are the stuffs that I tried. 1) Built a website with original content. No duplicate stuffs is showing by copyscape.com as of date. 2) I have build decent amount of backlinks that can aid for crawling. 3) I visited internet archive and found that the previous owner of my domain has did keyword spamming in his website. 4) So I raised a reconsideration request two time from Google webmasters tool. I just got a default message from google team as follows. "We received a request from a site owner to reconsider how we index the following site. We've now reviewed your site. When we review a site, we check to see if it's in violation of our Webmaster Guidelines. If we don't find any problems, we'll reconsider our indexing of your site. If your site still doesn't appear in our search results, check our Help Center for steps you can take." 5) I can see google bot is visiting my website daily(Found this from crawl data from webmasters tool) 6) You can see this site:mywebsite.com doesn't retrieve any results. 6) But still Google is not crawling my website. Bottom line: I have followed every guideline of webmaster guideline and it just hurts when Google doesn't like my website Can any experienced webmaster. Thanks a lot. Thanks
google is currently updating their algo..just wait for the result.. anyway continue building your backlinks.
I understant your site is not indexed, but even if it were, it likely wouldn't rank for squat so why worry? It's not only the number of links that affect, but the quality of links... You have about 244 inbound links to your site from external URLs... Unfortunately about 210 of those are worthless links from here (DP)... and another 5 or so from webmaster-talk.com. Your URL in your sig here is not even a link... it's simply your domain. It has to be a clickable link to count as a backlink (though they can discover your site with such non-clickable links.) But even if it were clickable, links to a teeth whitening site from an SEO forum is worthless from a ranking perspective... I'm pretty sure ALL forum links from DP are discounted drastically by Google if not devalued to ZERO. Regardless, it's not relevant to your site. The few relevant links you have appear to be super low-quality blog comment links which are nofollowed. This isn't going to help your site rank either... and Google states they don't will not follow a nofollow link, even for discovery purposes. Did you explain to them that you are a new owner of the domain? And that you fear the previous owner might have done something to get banned? Or did you simply request a reconsideration without giving any explanation of why you should be reconsidered other than mentioning you're not getting indexed? Your robots.txt is: You need a blank link before the Sitemap: directive like: Did you disable pings on your blog? I would suggest getting a few followed inbound links from relevant URLs even if it means writing some articles to submit to ezinesarticles.com. And using digg to promote your site's blog posts when you make a new one. It's not that unusual for some sites to take a month or even two to get indexed.
Canonical, I really appreciate your efforts for my queries. Yes, thats right. But for getting ranked, crawling is the first step right... I just changed the clickable link into non clikable one just for this post. As I would be editing it after the discussion. I gave every bit details that I have explained in this post. Robots - I changed it now. Thanks for this. What is this? I am not using a software for blog. Just built a static webpage. I would change this later when the site picks up. I already have two articles running in ezinearticles. Have a link from Ding. I have links from sites like hotfrog, scribd, reddit, identi. But, it is so hurting cannonical My site ranks in page 1 in yahoo and bing. But it is very unfortunate that it is not getting crawled in Google. Cannonical, thanks for spending time on this. I am looking forward for your help. Thanks a lot. Luther...
I was in a similar situation. Even after adding the verfication code to the site that Google asked me to place it took almost a year for the site to be indexed. If you like the domain be patient. Once they dump a domain they are cautious about adding it back to the system.
I am confused, as other commentors here would suggest that getting backlinks from websites like this is exactly what is required. From an SEO point of view we here all the time to get backlinks from forums. Maybe you mean not to rely on just one or two forums for all your backlinks
If the relevancy of the forum isn't the same as your site, them the link is probably worth little, but still worth having!
The people you hear advocating forum posts and blog commenting as a means of improving rankings generally are inexperienced with SEO. I would take one quality natural link from a relevant, authoritative site over 1000 forum sig links any day. In the time it takes to post 1000 links on a forum, you probably could come up with a plan to get several quality links.