Monday, April 13, 2009

Banned from search engine result pages?

Are you looking for the perfect URL name and it's already owned? Thinking of buying it? You might want to take a few minutes to see if the URL is worth purchasing.
  • Check the URL Status
Ex. www.NewCastleFarmersMarket.com
Go to the Google search box and type in; site:www.NewCastleFarmersMarket.com, this will tell you what pages if any are listed in Google search results. If you have multiple pages listed in the results the URL is meeting Google guidelines.
  • Check the URL Link Status
Go to the Google search box and type in; link:www.NewCastleFarmersMarket.com, this will provide you with the websites, if any, that have a text link on thier site pointing to that URL.

Repeat these steps for the other search engines you want to make sure you are listed in.
If for some reason there are no pages or links available on that search you may want to check the wayback machine to show the last page indexed for that URL, this will give you an idea of why the site may have been de-listed with the search engine(s).
Sometimes by looking at the previous site you can tell if the search engines were mislead or there was questionable content on the site that may have had it removed from the search engine results page. In any case you can ask for special reconcideration of the site using the Google Webmaster tools after you verify that you are the site owner by putting in a meta-tag code for the search engine spider to see.

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