Wordlog.com – Help Needed with Google
May 19th, 2005
Anyone able to offer any insight into why a site isn't listed on Google.com after being in existance for a year?
"Please think of this as a public appeal for help.
Wordlog.com is not indexed by google, almost a year after I started publishing this blog. You might have seen me going slow around these parts every once in a while. The reason for this is google. I figure, since this site is not indexed, the posts I make here will not show up when someone is searching for the relevant information. So why bother? All the visitors I get to the blog are from links from other blogs, and I cannot thank you all enough for that.
Vis-a-vis google, I have contacted their support department many times, without ever getting a favorable response. When I wrote the first time, the response I got was that google thinks that this website is a link farm, or something of that sort, and that I have to follow the webmaster guidelines. I took the effort to check that there are no hidden links, or any violations of their suggestions. There are none - this is a just a normal WordPress weblog, with minimal modifications, if any.
The motive for starting this blog was two-fold: inform WordPress users of the latest developments, through informative articles and news, beyond the “here’s a new plugin/theme� information, and, to make money, through advertising. Looks like I am failing both ways.
So, if any of you kind readers would have any influence on this subject, and can help me sort out this issue with google at the soonest, I would greatly appreciate it. Please leave me a comment if you can help. Like I said, I have already tried emailing google’s support team, and that did not help. Please suggest alternative, honest, methods of resolution, or if you work at google and can do something to help me, please let me know through a comment.
If nothing works out and I am still as hopeless at the end of two weeks, I will make this content available at WebLog Tools Collection, since I have already discussed it with Mark. That way, at least you, the WordPress users, win!"
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