Q and A: Why is Google ignoring my site?

Dear Kalena...

I am writing to you because I have tried to ignore the fact that Google has been ignoring my site for over a year now, but I have had enough.

I have tried to optimise my website as best I could. Ok I do not do this on a full-time basis but I do try my best; adding relevant content, trying to building links with relevant websites which are subject related, etc etc.

My website ranks well for keywords like "plus size fashion", "plus size bridal wear" and "plus size casual" on search engines like Yahoo, MSN Search and AllTheWeb but Google would not have anything to do with me. I can see that Google had indexed by website, it has indexed around 250 pages, so I shouldn't be blacklisted. My site also has a PR 4... modest I know but not low enough to throw away.

I am clueless as to what I might be doing wrong! Can you shed some light please?

Kudos for the great blog - I look forward to your posts!

Best regards,

Sarah

Kalena's Answer:

Dear Sarah

I'm assuming that your site is the same as your email domain? If so, you've got some serious coding problems. I can't even get the site to load in either FireFox or Internet Explorer. I get an error in FF I've never seen before:

"Redirection limit for this URL exceeded. Unable to load the requested page. This may be caused by cookies that are blocked".

I don't get an error with IE, but it just times out without loading the page. Based on the error message, I'm assuming that your site code uses a number of redirects or META refreshes. Although Google has indexed 379 pages from your site, I can't seem to get any to load and I've clicked on about six.

I have no doubt that your code problems are causing major issues for Googlebot when it comes to index your site. Not to mention the fact that many of your potential visitors probably can't view your site!

Sarah, I would get your code sorted out quick smart and rid yourself of any unneccessary redirects. I used the HTML validator from W3 and a 302 error showed up, indicating serious redirect issues. Better get it sorted!