Why would Google ignore Project Mai Tai?
by Sapphire (December 13, 2006)
Okay, I’m wondering if any of you might have some ideas on this. My newest site, Project Mai Tai, was indexed by Yahoo and MSN within days of its launch three months ago. Google has yet to index one page, even though the bots come by every day. I did forget to include my robots.txt file until yesterday, but the verdict from other webbies is that this is not what caused Google to shun the site.
I checked my headers - nothing in them advising robots to go away, don’t index, and make me cry. 
The domain did belong to someone else years ago. It had been without an owner for several years when I bought it, and before that it appears to have been a harmless personal blog (going by Wayback’s cached pages).
I’ve never had a site be ignored by an engine this way. Particularly just by one engine, while the others are happily indexing and sending a trickle of traffic. What could I have done to piss Google off?
Posted in Blogging, SEO Tags: Project Mai Tai
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