Cant get google to come hang out at my site

Mr.Bill · 07-24-2007, 11:44 PM

So I made a domain a couple months ago and cant get google to even recognize the name exists. I have submitted sitemaps added to blogs directories and social bookmarking. When I search in google I get results for the sites I listed it on however none that are directly from my site. the domain is "search - for . us"

Has a subdomain of "directory" which is a directory and cant even get google to go there. Is there a way to find out if a site is really blacklisted? In google tools says they came but no results ever show up. I know I have to patient but none of my site have ever taken this long I mean a 1 day old domain can show up in google.

I want to get this sorted because I would like to move the directory off the subdomain and move it to the main domain

Redfly · 07-25-2007, 01:21 AM

First of all, your site has no original content. What value to its customers would google be providing even indexing your site?

Does your webmaster console list any penalties?

Mihai · 07-29-2007, 02:13 PM

I think you are having some duplicate content problems.

Mr.Bill · 07-29-2007, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mihai

I think you are having some duplicate content problems.

What makes you say this? I added a 301 redirect from the subdomain to avoid this. SInce I moved the directory out of the subdomain to the main site

**Cricket** · 07-29-2007, 03:19 PM

How many quality links are pointed to your site?

Mr.Bill · 07-29-2007, 04:52 PM

Thats a difficult one to answer.I get extremely different results depending on the site I use to check them. get anywhere from 0 to over a million the domain name it throwing off some of the checkers.

**Cricket** · 07-29-2007, 05:07 PM

I am not finding any quality incoming links to your domain.

You do however have some serious issues going on though. You are redirecting from www.directory.search-for.us to www.search-for.us/directory/ which appears to be identical to www.search-for.us/ and then for your homepage link, instead of linking directly to the domain you are linking to www.search-for.us/index.php.

To top it off, every link in your sidebar points to www.search-for.us/index.php but yet in the footer you resort back to linking to www.search-for.us/

Do you not see some serious issues there?

Mr.Bill · 07-29-2007, 05:40 PM

This part I noticed last night

Quote:

www.search-for.us/directory/

This is something with the htaccess
Fixed the Sidebar links.

Mr.Bill · 07-29-2007, 08:55 PM

This was a nightmare for me to get sorted and its probably not the correct way but its working

Code:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^directory.search-for.us$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.directory.search-for.us$
RewriteRule ^/?(.*)$ http://www.search-for.us/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^search-for.us$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.search-for.us$
RewriteRule ^directory/?(.*)$ http://www.search-for.us/$1 [R=301,L]

Any chance someone knows how to avoid the extra step in the htaccess.

Any other problems with the site jump out at anyone? Think I got all the above ones fixed