How can I find out exactly why my web site at
www.mortonconservatories.com has been blacklisted by Google?

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Request for Question Clarification by wengland-ga on 16 Aug 2002 10:30 PDT

While no entries for your website appear in Google search, why do you
feel that Google has blacklisted you?  Have you submitted your site? 
Do you know of any other sites that link to you?

Do you have a more specific question, like "How do I get Google to
list my site", or "Why did Google drop my site listing"?

You may not have been "blacklisted." I've had my sites of several
years suddenly vanish from the google radar. There are a number of
forums, and one of them is hosted by Google, that might give some
insight to this. I've posted a few links below to help you find those.

Frames don't list well, and your site is using them. And its not using
them in a search engine friendly way. Its created by /h/navleft.htm
and /h/home.shtml, and is constructed variously by index.htm and
index.html.  You should pick one and stay with that throughout the
site. Frames on the front page of a website, index.html, is hardly
ever a good idea.

Also you use shtml files for all your body frames. The Google engine
supports dynamic webpages, but limits the number that they will index.
Since your whole site is based on this, it may have simply skipped
you.

Adding those two together makes your site, not very google-bot
friendly.

Your site is also lacking a few things, enough so that your site will
drop off the radar periodically, as mine did before I fixed them.

First off, make a file called robots.txt. This should be a plain text
file and have a single line in it (for you anyway) That line should
be:
 
User-agent: * 

This lets all robots know that its okay to index your site. You don't
have one and google bot will sometimes get confused and skip your
site, at least this is the way it was explained to me. Since I've had
this file, I've not had the problem.

No space at the top, and plain, regular text. Put this in the main
area of your site. Check that it is readable by going to the file
using http://www.mortonconservatories.com/robots.txt. You should be
able to read it. If not, then try again using plain text. Don't put
anything in there except that line.

Some other hints. Though it is said that the google bot doesn't rely
on the keyword meta tags, not having any is probably not wise. I would
stick in the tag with a few key words there. Make sure the keywords
are also in text form somewhere on the front page.

Put the name of the site in the title. Mortonconservatories.com. This
will help the bot place you.

Google Search Engine Webmaster page
://www.google.com/webmasters/

Google Support Discussion Group. 
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=google.public.support

Search Engine Forum at JimWorld
http://www.searchengineforums.com/bin/Ultimate.cgi


webadept-ga

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Clarification of Answer by webadept-ga on 16 Aug 2002 13:29 PDT

Need to clarify something.. Your index.htm file and the index.html
file both have keyword tags. The /h/home.shtml page doesn't have them
and has a different title tag for the page.

Use either index.htm or index.html (I would use the index.html) for
the main page and take out the frames all together. See the Google
Answers Webmaster page link under "Why is my site not listed" section.

Anyone with half an ounce of common sense could have answered this
question. I believe it must have been posted in order to drive traffic
to the site mentioned. Google answers should not be used in this way -
use google Adwords instead.

Adam

Why would I want to drive irrelevant traffic to the site? It is a very
local company selling conservatories, hardly the type of site that
will be of interest to the average google answers reader. I merely
want to find out why it has been banned so that people searching for
that product in that area can do so.

Nigel