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    • TheHecksler
      TheHecksler last edited by

      Hi,

      I got a request from a potential client as he do not understand why his website cannot be found on Google. I've checked that and found out that the complete website is not listed (complete delist) at all - expect just one pdf file.
      I've checked his robots.txt - but this is ok. I've checked the META Robots - but they are on index,follow ... ok so far. I've checked his backlinks but could not found any massive linking from bad pages - just 6 backlinks and only four of them from designdomains.com which looks like a linklist or so.

      I've requested access to their GWT account if available in hope to find more infos, but does anyone of you may have a quick idea what els it could be? What could be the issue?

      I think that they got delisted due to any bad reason ...

      Let me know your Ideas 🙂

      THANX 🙂

      Sebi

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      • MickEdwards
        MickEdwards last edited by

        Without knowing the domain or any information in GWT nobody is going to be able to really help.

        The only think I can think of is possibly .htaccess blocking Google.

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        • EGOL
          EGOL last edited by

          I got a request from a potential client as he do not understand why his website cannot be found on Google.

          Honestly....  I think most of the people who say this know what they did but they ain't sayin'.

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          • MickEdwards
            MickEdwards @EGOL last edited by

            True!  🙂

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            • TheHecksler
              TheHecksler last edited by

              Ok,

              here's the URL: http://www.hvla.com Here's the indexed pages 😉 https://www.google.de/#q=site:http:%2F%2Fwww.hvla.com and here's the robots.txt: http://www.hvla.com/robots.txt
              I haven't found anything suspiccious so far - even the small ammount of backlings from designdomain.com shouldn't kock him out. I will try to get ftp access to take a look at the .htaccess and to get GWT access - hope that helps.

              Moz found a handfull of backlinks zo hvla.com. would that mean, that some of these pages has been indexed before? I mean does Moz count inboundlinks to pages which are indexed by Google?

              Thanx.

              Sebi

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              • TheHecksler
                TheHecksler @EGOL last edited by

                Right, but before I tell a potential client, that he fucked up his own website, I need to have some evidence for that - I haven't found them yet.

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                • MickEdwards
                  MickEdwards @TheHecksler last edited by

                  Looks like you have been injected with spam links.  Used MajesticSEO to show the attached (sample).

                  I'd be assertive in getting into GWT asap.  I guess those URLs don't exist but it is still a big no.

                  http://i.imgur.com/XFNY1ZG.gif

                  If you go with the client disavow that domain for sure.

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                  • TheHecksler
                    TheHecksler @MickEdwards last edited by

                    Thank you very much 🙂 - meanwhile I found some spammy links too. Will tell him that. Looks like someone hacked his site before 😉 I've just got the Administrator acces and loged in ... hell - will tell him to fire his webmaster as he probably didn't comply with the most basic rules of securing a Website -.-

                    Thank you very much again for your help 🙂

                    Seb

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                    • paints-n-design
                      paints-n-design last edited by

                      2 things nobody said:

                      1st
                      Robots.txt says disallow to image and Theme (where i guess css and js is included)

                      2nd
                      WebOfTrust warning to not enter the site because of not trustworthy

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