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My site has been up since August 2004 and Google still hasn't indexed it. All the other search engines have indexed my site; I wonder what Google doesn't like about my site.
If anyone knows please advice me maybe there's something wrong with my site - www.zimbiz.com.

You are most probably experiencing the Sandbox Effect. Read this: http://www.submitexpress.com/bbs/about131.html

However, it is possible you may have other problems. I did a site:www.www.zimbiz.com check in Google and you are not even indexed. This could mean that your site has some kind of indexing problem. There are a lot of reasons for this, such as:
- You could have code that dissallows search engines to spider you
- You could be being hosted on an IP address that has been bannned due to spam
- You could be using code that generates error when Google tries to spider you
- There could be a duplicate site or site that looks a lot like yours, so the duplicate filter is removing you.
- You could be banned from Google, maybe because of Adsense spam you mention here http://www.searchengineforums.com/apps/ ... 1099273224
- How long have you had this domain? It's also possible that you picked up an expired domain that somebody owned before. Google is penalizing expired domains.

My guess would be that your site got banned by google.

The best way to find out is to buy a PR7 or 8 text link for a month. Google will index your site with in hours if its not banned.

can you please explain how can i get a PR7 or 8 text link ??

The site is indexed now.

You site is already indexed. getting your website index by google will only take a couple of weeks or just a month. but having a good rank for a particular keyword or phrase will take a lot of time for brand new websites because of the sandbox effect.

The best way to get indexed is getting a link from a page that is already indexed in the search engines.

google doesn't favor if you submit your website through http://www.google.com/addurl
It tooks more than 4 month to get indexed by google for one of my sites. I tried lots of things for that site: submited to bunch of directories, crazy link exchange and tried guaranteed inclusion service from Ineedhits.com, all failed.

My suggestion: don't try to submit your site directly to google. Just build backlinks silently and google will index your site by itself.

There is no sand box all you need some good links to get indexed.

I put my seobook.org.uk on to page 1 in less then 2 week and it is still there.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=seo+book

having the matching domain name for the serch helps a lot

I only used 6 links to get #14 spot added a few more and had page 1 only beat by seobook.com

a good pr4 or pr5 link will get you indexed in less then a week becareful of fake pr

some sites get indexed faster other slower, my site for eg was registered in the first week i put it online

Based on my experience, I submited my new site through the Google addurl and made only 2 back-links from mid level sites. My site was indexed within 3 weeks.

I guess, there is a lot of criteria used by Google in order website to be indexed. And I don't think submitting through the Google addurl might hurt the site. I also think that quality back-links will speed the Google indexing.

Have a great day

One issue to look for is domains that have pended delete, meaning they expired and went back for sale.

So if you look at archive.org's index of your domain it starts at Dec 20, 2002. Yet your whois record shows Created on: 16-Aug-04.

This means the domain expired. Some search engines ban domains that have deleted to assure they are not spammers. Unfortunately most webmasters have no idea that some Search Engine may penalize for this, and their new domains and new businesses sometimes never get exposure.

This is something a would require a re-inclusion request, however your site is currently indexed in Google so there is nothing to do.

There is a difference between indexed and not ranking. Try getting high powered backlinks from quality websites and Authority Domains as suggested above.

BTDINO wrote:There is no sand box all you need some good links to get indexed.

I put my seobook.org.uk on to page 1 in less then 2 week and it is still there.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=seo+book

having the matching domain name for the serch helps a lot

I only used 6 links to get #14 spot added a few more and had page 1 only beat by seobook.com

a good pr4 or pr5 link will get you indexed in less then a week becareful of fake pr

It will sure be interesting to read your upcoming SEO book.
Keep me updated.

good for you, your site is now indexed.. one thing i proved in indexing a site, you should really have enough patience