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    Should I Block Googlebot?

    November 9th, 2006 byPhilip Nicosia

    I have a site that according to Google Sitemaps gets crawled regularly. In the last 90 days it has crawled on average 2209 pages per day.

    Googlebot Chart

    Now here’s the thing. I don’t get any visits from Google Search and Google has no pages listed in its index for the site.

    So why is Googlebot crawling the pages and waiting my bandwidth?


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    2 Comments Add your own

    • 1. newsreader  |  November 10th, 2006 at 10:44 pm

      Hi Philip

      How long has your site been registered? Sometimes Google throws your site into a sandbox for 6 months, until this time has passed, it does not usually show you a lot of results.

      Hope this helps and also thankyou for all your referrals to our site

      NR

    • 2. Philip Nicosia  |  November 21st, 2006 at 3:20 pm

      The sites been banned I’m sure. Its about 3 years old and always used to rank really well for all its search terms.

      Sandoxed would suggest it was indexed but this one isn’t.

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