I have had a site submitted back in August. Google continually hits the sitemap but still lists it as unindexed. It is in my webmaster tools account but no indexing, no stats, not nothing, except downloading the sitempa regularly.. Any ideas or how I can go about asking them..
That means your site isn't working for the google bot. If they don't index any of your pages, then something is wrong with your server. Do you have enough backlinks so that google can find your site?
I have about 30 sites on this same server using the same sitemap format and the same robots.txt file. It has more backlinks than some of the other sites I have.. I am getting referral traffic from other sites even..this site is older than others that have been indexed already.
Has the domain been blacklisted in the past ?? Maybe you might want to modify your robots.txt file to specifically tell the Googlebot to spider your pages. Good luck Alex
That's kindof what I am asking. I am not a newbie but havent had to deal with this. How owuld I check if it were blacklisted? As far as robots, you mean add allow statements? I have a few disallows and the sitemap location in my robots.txt They are downloading the sitemap file according to webmaster tools daily...
i dont know offhnad i will check but i never have done anything different...this utlizes the same template i have 20 other sites using
if you are in link exchange or your site has back links from those sites then it is possible your site is banned by google, there is also chance of having your site in sandbox, just check it out..... Good luck
That is my question, how do I check it out..is there somewhwre to go to look up banned sites..or if you are in the sandbox?
Well, as far as a possible ban is concerned: Do a check at archive.org. If there are any old entries, the domain was already registered before and may be banned...although a ban doesn't last forever most of the time, many come back after months, sometimes years.
Michael Gray wrote a great article for this process, I suggest you give it a read, it may help you determine your issues: http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/is-my-website-banned-in-google/?more=1&c=1
info - not an issue. As I have mentioned, this is the same for 20-30 sites..this is the only one having an issue. Stark/Antonaf - thanks, I will check this stuff out.
Okay, been a couple of weeks, added index,follow even though my other sites dont have it. I added the link to more of my other sites and know that it is on others from link exchanges etc. And STILL not in Google...any other suggestions..how to I find out if it is banned?