My First Banning

[mamuttawa]

I am guessing I have been banned for a site I created for a friend...figures. The landscaping site in my sig is the one. Never got spidered and all I can think is that I gave Google a little to much duplicate content throughout the pages.It was a quick site I came up with...The only other thing I can think of is the cheap hosting I went through. Besides that, I am stumped.Live for almost 4 months...many directory and site links, even DMOZ.Any thoughts?If it has never got spidered it could be the domain name itself. Every website we have started has had no problems getting indexed by Google, except for a hotel directory we had created. We are finally on our third domain name and it is finally getting indexed. The other two domain names are still online and they have yet to even be indexed once by Google, and one has been online over a year!Check into your domain name an see if it might have been owned by someone previously who damaged it in google's eyes.archive.org has no cache for previous owners so that may not be it.I suspect the duplicate content as well veto.That is one of the first things I checked. I should have said that I never noticed it getting spidered, but I only checked once every few weeks. Most of my sites are indexed within a week, so I became worried. Never had this problem in the past 5 years of doing this.The only other thing I can think of is that it has to do with the server. I have ran across problems with other hosting companies where they have accidentally blocked the Google spider. Thanks for the response though. Like I said, this is the first time I have come across this problem.I'm gona be the odd one out as usual here. I just dont think google has found you ....http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... .%2Bcom%22If Google had you banned then you would still appear some where for the domain name... i.e sites linking to you.infact if you take the .com from the end http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=& ... orservicesThere are still no sites in the database that contain links to the site otherwise they would show up for that linkIt's not natural for google to ban every site linking into a penalised site... so it would still return some results..... if only one or two .. if that makes sense.If you have a site that you know is spidered from Google everyday, I would try adding a link to the site from the homepage just to get things kicked off. It just doesn't look like a banning to me....Thanks for the tip. i guess i can sneak a link on a related site I know gets spidered a lot. Another thing that confused me was the DMOZ listing. I have a DMOZ listing and it wasn't picked up in the last two Google/DMOZ Directory updates. I have had that for almost 4 months.Actually I looked and am currently on about 5 Pagerank 5 pages under my control. These pages have been spidered many times too. I can see the actually link text in the serps as well.Some thoughts about your host. First of all there are mixed reviews about it. Some good, some bad. But to address the problem, given what I can vaguely discover about your host, My best guess is IP sharing is what is causing your problem on this one:http://www.searchenginepromotionhelp.co ... akes-5.phpBoth #9 or #10 could possibly apply.In fact I'm almost positive you have a shared IP. I did the test and your IP for that returns a non-configured page:http://64.132.144.218/There's no problem with MSN Search indexing the site, so that rules out un-indexability.Yeah MSN and Yahoo do a very nice job of spidering the site. So the shared IP may be causing the problem. I have used this host in the past, like 2 years ago and had no problems, but I always come back to thinking they may be the problem.I might just try another hosting company to test it.veto, just to add... all the pages that link to your site in MSN do not exist in Google's database... Could mean something.Yeah, I haven't ever seen this kind of thing. The sites I have directing to the site show my link, it shows the link text in the serps, but doesn't show the actual link in Google.Well, like the article said, "some" search engines. I'm fairly certain that MSN, follows the actual text links, whereas I'm nearly as certain Google does a reverse lookup and follows the IP. IP sharing is typical of lowcost hosting plans. I like to call it IP conservation, but basically it is a lowcost method of gaining business. For those who never heard of it, IP sharing works by an internal host redirect to your home directory based on the domain name. I think typically up to 50 sites can be hosted on the same IP address that way. Higher priced plans usually have a singular IP. When in doubt ask your host. The good ones will usually tell you in their plan descriptions or FAQsOf course don't rule out point #10 there. It may be I'm wrong about Google, but it could be that the IP is simply banned because of one idiot on the IP.ATNO/TW,Nice article and information regarding IP sharing (though neither of their suggested links worked).Here's an alternative IP Address Lookuphttp://www.urgentclick.com/ip_address_lookup.phpcya'sPS....hope you sort your troubles out soon Veto!