May 07
Google Indexing Mystery Solved?
So…if your domain is being crawled by Googlebot, there aren’t any red flags coming up in Google Webmaster Tools and your domain still isn’t showing up in Google’s search results - your site might be banned!
Well whatta ya know? Investigation by our fabulous IT team last night found that our newly purchased domain (not to be confused with our IP address) was previously blacklisted and still on the list! Apparently, www.tkg.com was being referenced/linked in the body of spam emails.
So now what?
The blacklist our new domain is on is manually maintained, so we’re following protocol & hoping with Dustin’s charm that this is resolved before the end of the week.
Now we need to get back in Google’s good graces so they stop ignoring tkg.com. Next: Google’s Reconsideration Request
June 30th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
[...] (since April 30th), we have experienced some trying times with Google…First we found out that TKG.com was blacklisted and then our Google rankings disappeared and we had to deal with Google taking over a month to [...]