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tech-pro
10-01-2005, 05:32 AM
I could not get my new site The PC Guru (http://www.the-pc-guru.com/) listed in Google despite the existence of backlinks and submitting several times a site index. It was in the other search engines, but not Google. Searching various forums I found that this was a common complaint. I could think of nothing that was wrong with my site, and became convinced that the domain must have been blacklisted as a result of the activities of the previous owners.

Eventually I stumbled across an article by Matt Cutts in his blog: Filing a Reinclusion Request (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/reinclusion-request-howto/) . Less than two weeks after following the advice in this article, and a day after receiving an email from Google saying that their techs were looking in to it, I have the index page of my site in Google's index, with a page rank of 1. Nothing else is there yet, but it's a start.

I hope that Matt's article will be useful to others who suffer the frustration of creating a site and having it ignored by Google.

etechsupport2
10-01-2005, 08:15 AM
I think you should wait for next crawl by google, in the mean time try to link your page with many sites, I hope they will find you. You should also check the technical aspect of your site as per defined policy by google through this link; http://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html

Ivan Bajlo
10-01-2005, 10:58 AM
Did you try Google Sitemap?
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html

promo2go
10-01-2005, 12:36 PM
Interesting thanks for the links and hope to see your PR move up!

seodevhead
10-01-2005, 03:16 PM
I have no one to back me up on this... but in all honesty, I have seen from my own experience that new sites on new domains have a much harder time to get fully indexed if they lack a robots.txt file. If you take a real close look at your log files, you will notice googlebot will come to your index page, try to grab a robots.txt and wander away. I noticed that websites that didn't have robots.txt files took sometimes 10 revisits from googlebot before being thoroughly crawled. The accounts that started off with robots.txt (same number of backlinks, etc mind you) were almost immediately crawled within the first 3 bot visits.

Simply make sure you have a robots file with user-agent set to *. If you went to any SEO forum and asked if this is a true, I doubt I'd get any support... but just my 2 cents from close observations I have made. Who knows.

badblu01
10-01-2005, 10:37 PM
dose the google site map work ?

etechsupport2
10-03-2005, 07:19 AM
badblu01,

Google site map technology works but actually Google needs the publisher's help to keep track of all the new content. You can see through this link how it work; http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-does-Google-Sitemap-works-2660.shtml

FrankUSA
10-04-2005, 07:20 PM
thanks for the info guys