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News
Does Google ever forgive a penalized website?
Posted
October 03, 2008
Many of the methods that promise high
search engine rankings are basically spam. Google doesn't like
spam at all and if Google finds out that your website contains
spam elements, your website will be penalized. Will Google
forgive you if you remove the spam from your site?
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Indexing
Problems
Why are my web sites not being indexed by the Search Engines?
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(We have been using your
product for around 5 months now, submitting about every month or so, however,
we're not showing up anywhere on any of the major Search Engines. What am I
doing wrong?)
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Your web site URLs are
embedded in JavaScript.
This is the most common reason why your web sites are not indexed by the
Search Engines. If your web site URLs are embedded in JavaScript, most of the
Search Engines will not recognize and index these pages. If you're serious
about getting your web sites to be indexed by the Search Engines and get a
good position on the MAJOR Search Engines such as AltaVista, Lycos, Yahoo and
many others, please consider changing your web site style, either by putting
your links in simple html format or making alternative links at the bottom of
your page just for the Search Engines.
· There are no or little content on your web pages
If your web site was designed for "Nice looking" which means it contains only
the Image, Flash, Java, Image map etc, and there is no actual text information
(or just little text) on your web pages, your web pages will be ignored by the
Search Engines because Search Engines will index the web sites, which contain
valuable information. Please put any real useful information in text format to
your web pages.
· Your Pages Are not Cross-Linked.
Not all search engine spiders visit your website from your main index page (index.html).
If you have not linked each of your pages with all your other pages, you stand
the risk of having engines indexing only one or two of your pages. Just add
text links at the bottom of your pages to all your other pages.
· Your web site is a Frame style
Most major Search Engines do not support Frame style of the web sites. If you
wish your web sites to be indexed by the Search Engines and get good results,
please consider changing your web sites to a non-frame style.
· Using the correct Html Tags
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE></TITLE> <META name="description" content="put a short
description here"> <META name="keywords" content="put your keywords here">
</HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=FFFFFF>
Put your contents here ....
</BODY> </HTML>
Some Search Engines such as AltaVista and Google completely ignore websites
that have invalid html tag sequences. Also, please make sure you use the close
tags correctly. For e.g. <font> requires that you have </font>, <table>
requires a </table>. Your browser may display it correctly, but if you want
the page to be indexed, check your codes and put them in order.
· Do not use any Virtual Domain Redirection Service
If you are using an Internet Redirection Service to make it easy for people to
remember your website address, please do not use the Redirection web site
address for your submission, use your real web site URL to submit to the
Search Engines.
· Using normal .html (or .htm) file format
If the contents of your web pages are generated at real time by using a script
such as .cgi, .asp etc rather than a normal .html (or .htm) file, you are
taking the risk that your web sites may be ignored by the Search Engines,
because Search Engines want to index the web pages where they knew what the
information is.
· Meta Refresh and Meta Robots Tags
Check your codes for the following tags between the <head> and </head>.
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=http://www.other-domain.com/directory/filename.html">
This tag redirects your page to another web site. If you have this tag in your
code, the robots will usually completely ignore your website altogether.
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
This tag specifically directs robots to ignore that web page. If you have it
in your code, remove it immediately. You can use it on pages you do not want
Search Engines to index.
· Are You Using Free Website Hosting?
Many free website hosts use various methods of enforcing their advertising
banners on your ite. This sometimes causes wrong and/or incomplete indexing of
your website. If you haverepeatedly have trouble with getting your free
website indexed, switch to a pay web hosting provider.
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