Simone on the move

For one and a half weeks now, Enjoy Perth hasn’t shown up in google, at all. There’s no way of finding the site on google in any way, doesn’t matter what you search for or how many pages you scroll through, it’s just not indexed at all. Obviously I get a lot of hits from google, meaning my traffic has practically slowed to a halt!

This is what it says at Google Webmaster Tools:

Home page crawl: Googlebot last successfully accessed your home page on Oct 23, 2007.

Index status: No pages from your site are currently included in Google’s index. Indexing can take time. You may find it helpful to review our information for webmasters and webmaster guidelines. [?]

I am still indexed in Yahoo and live.com search.

There are a number of things it could be, but none seem like they would be enough to not index the site at all…

The fact that I have text link ads (in the footer). Google says you should report paid links. I guess they do have a point, the ‘advertisers’ on enjoyperth are there to get page rank, well, I think at least most of them. There are a lot of reports around the blogosphere (and apparently it’s now been confirmed), that this is the reason many sites have lost PR. But, that was in the last week. My site stopped being indexed in the week before that.

The fact that http://www.enjoyperth.net and http://enjoyperth.net don’t point to each other (or the one to the other)

I’ve gone through all the Google webmaster guidelines, posted a message in the google webmaster group (no useful responses), and went through the webmaster tools. One tool is the ‘Analyze robots.txt’ tool and when I run that it says:

Allowed by line 2: Disallow: Detected as a directory; specific files may have different restrictions

I have no idea what that’s supposed to mean…!?!

Also in the Webmaster Tools, it shows me that there’s a number of http:// errors (where I’ve linked wrong), and some unreachable urls (it says the network was unreachable, all the recent ones are links to the calendar). But no where does it say that this is sooo bad that you have to fix it (though I should of course, if I could figure out how ;) )

So at the moment I still think the most likely cause is those text link ads, or it’s just random and will be fixed soon…

I’m going to remove the text link ads at the end of the month, because I don’t want to lose the tiny bit of money I have earned this month! :D If that doesn’t help, I’m need to try harder to find someone I can contact at google.