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[harpsound]

I have just discovered that the alltheWeb spider has stopped visiting my site as of June2002 I have been so Google fixated that I have neglected that area. The site is super clean regarding SEO no-no's and I am getting excellent rankings in the other major search engines.

My website homepage still exists in the alltheWeb database. Nothing else. Back then I was a little green and put a few extra lines in my meta tags. The last cache on file did not have that change so I must have been banned for my indescretion.

Do I just free submit? or do I need to do paid inclusion?

Regards
Stephen Vardy

Edited by harpsound, 09 September 2003 - 10:02 AM.

[Jill]

Welcome, Harpsound!

The last cache on file did not have that change so I must have been banned for my indescretion.

Banned for what indescretion? You said your site was squeaky clean, didn't you?

It's very rare for a search engine to penalize or ban you. Perhaps your site was just down for a bit when the FAST spider came crawling.

Give it a good 6 weeks and see if your pages get back in. There's always paid-inclusion through Lycos Insite. That gets the FAST spider in every 48 hours.

Good luck!

Jill

[harpsound]

We have an SEO group out here who put "DC" language in your metatags

For Example

<link rel="schema.dc" href="http://dublincore.or...02/08/13/dces">
<meta name="dc.title" lang="en" content="Search Engine Optimization - M#######">
<meta name="dc.subject" lang="en" content="######
etc. etc.

I borrowed it for a while and did not feel good about it so removed it. I looked at the cache. The spider has definitely not visited the site in 14 months (about the time I started playing around). It has all the external links listed (89) so it knows that I am there. It has just stopped visiting. I was using Microsoft Publisher 98 at the time and I noticed that it only picked up 6 of 30 pages in June2002. MP98 is definitely a clunker with regards to spiders.

Maybe a resubmit will kickstart things. I have done this

Regards
Stephen

[Jill]

That's nothing to get banned over. Those tags are fine to use. They are called the Dublin Core tags. Not a problem. You don't have to remove them from your site, and you certainly were not banned for them.

I'm sure you're not banned at all, and there's probably some technical glitch. At least your site is listed, that's a good thing. Again, I would suggest using the Lycos Insite to get your pages listed, if you really care about being up to date with your FAST listings.

Jill