Dear Darjunep,
First of all, and that is very important - Google Answers is not
linked with the Google Index, and I am not a Google employee. I am,
though, sort of an expert on search engine submission, and in
particular in Google submission.
There could be several reasons why a site, that was perviously
available on Google, is not indexed anymore:
- Technical problems, either with your server, hosting, when Google
last crawled there; or with Google itself, not going through your site
from another reason
- You violated the ToS (doesn't seem so from going over your site, but
think: did you use a "search engine optemizer"? Did you violate the
ToS in any other way?)
Other Reasons:
"The contents of your page or the links pointing to your page changed
significantly and you no longer have a sufficiently high PageRank, or
your page had low PageRank to begin with and a small change caused you
to be dropped from the Google index.
Your page was manually removed from our index, because it did not
conform with the quality standards necessary to assign accurate
PageRank. We will not comment on the individual reasons a page was
removed and we do not offer an exhaustive list of practices that can
cause removal. However, certain actions such as cloaking, writing text
that can be seen by search engines but not by users, or setting up
pages/links with the sole purpose of fooling search engines may result
in permanent removal from our index. If you think your site may fall
into this category, you might try 'cleaning up' the page and sending a
re-inclusion request to help@google.com. We do not make any guarantees
about if or when we will re-include your site. "
(From: Google's Webmaster's guide: "My web pages used to be listed and
now they aren't. " <://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html#usedtobe>).
I really want to refer to the third explanation given, because it
seems to me the most probable, and in any case, it is an essential
thing you should do in order to be indexed and ranked in Google: have
sites who choose to link to your site.
Google doesn't work like many other search engines, which are
human-edited. Google has a robot, which crawls between sites' links to
other sites, thereafter indexing them. Moreover, as much as a site is
linked by other sites, it has more chances to be indexed.
Try, first of all, to suggest your site for crawling again:
Add URL to Google - Submit a Site
<://www.google.com/addurl.html>
However, because of the way the search engine works - crawling through
links that other sites link to you (these links are called "back
links" - linking back to your site) submission to the "submit a site"
option is usually not enough. You have to be linked to other sites.
As mentioned before, the reason you don't appear in Google's search
engine could be, that you haven't been crawled to. That might be
because you are not
linked to any site, and no site links to you.
So, the next important step you have to take in order to ensure a
Google indexing, is to convince as many other site holders to link you
site to theirs. For example, sites related to sexual harrasment,
women's rights, stalking, real-life stories, etc. (some of these site
may ask you to link theirs in return, that's the way it is).
You can also "advertise" your site in Google Groups
(http://groups.google.com/) that discuss such issues, thus maintaining
the option that people would voluntarily link to you. However, be
careful not to flood the lists or to spam them - this will create bad
image or worse - make people complain to your ISP.
Another fool proof method to be linked and indexed is to insert
yourself to the Google Directory (http://directory.google.com/). All
you have to do is choose a category in the directory, that would
describe you the best, and using the "submit a site" option.
You can find more information on Google's index at ://www.google.com/webmasters
I hope that answered your question. Please contact me for
clarifications on the answer. I'd be pleased to clarify my answer. |
