Dear Berns,
Before I begin my answer, I want to make sure that you know that
Google Answer Researchers, such as me, are not Google employees. What
I write here is my own researched opinion and not an official Google
position.
I've found your site, but it seems that it is neither indexed nor
linked to any prominent site:
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=www.sittella.com.au
That could mean, that the Googlebot did not "visit" your site; it
could also mean that you violated a clear Google policy, by having the
same site under two different links (if you want to know more about
the Terms of Service and about Google's tips for Webmasters in
general, visit ://www.google.com/webmasters/).
A search, for example, for the terms <"Sittella" "winery">
(://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=%3C%22Sittella%22+%22winery%22%3E+)
brings up your site - <http://www.shadeofcolours.com/> as the fourth
site. The other site does not appear. This could be of several
reasons:
- Your site is not linked to enough sites; and is not linked to
important sites at that; For example, your winery is mentioned at
<http://www.perthtourism.emrc.org.au/emrc/winery_view.asp?winery_id=16>
(second result), but you haven't provided them with your current email
or site addresses.
- Your site has too few or no keywords and meta-tags, that would help
find it.
- You violatd the terms of service, as mentioned before.
In order to improve your ranking (although appearing among the first
results is not guaranteed and very difficult indeed), you could try to
link yourself to more sites (for example, sites about wine, about
tourism in the area, etc.), either by contacting the sites' webmasters
and asking them to link to your site (in other words: doing good PR to
your site), or/and by entering some rich content, some article that
people would like to read (and to link to). Besides, you may want to
improve your meta-tags and keywords.
However, there could be yet another possibility, and that is that you
have been removed from the index because of this violation of the TOS.
In this case, I suggest you'll read the Webmatser's guide, and follow
it, and try to restore the site's listing, by appealing to Google
after you've made the necessary corrections :
General Webmaster's advice: ://www.google.com/webmasters/
My Website is not Included : ://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html
Help and appeals, after corrections: mailto:help@google.com
Guidelines: ://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
Google User Support discussion list
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=google.public.support.general
(general support).
I hope that answered your question. I wish your good luck with your
site. I used my Google knowledge to answer this question, as well as
searched and looked through your site for your keywords and META tags.
Please contact me if you need any clarification on my answer. I'd be
pleased to clarify my answer before you rate/tip it. |
