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This is my first seo project by myself. anyways, it jumped to page one for almost every term on MSN after about a month, it has since dropped for some reason probably because i haven't updated it in forever. It still doesn't come up on yahoo or google though. Can you guys take a look and make suggestions? Look at the source I used css for the menus so they are really links...would that be considered spam?

The site is like 10% done i dont even have graphics made i was about to scrap it then i saw it all over msn so I am going to go with it...Thanks for your feedback!

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A short checklist of practical checks and likely causes that go beyond the “submit a sitemap” advice in the thread.

Start by confirming crawl vs index. Use site:yourdomain.com on Google to see what’s indexed and check individual pages’ cached copy. Run a HEAD request to confirm pages return 200 and not 403/404/503:

curl -I https://yourdomain.com/somepage

If pages return a non-200, or have an X-Robots-Tag: noindex header or a <meta name="robots" content="noindex">, they won’t be indexed. Also fetch https://yourdomain.com/robots.txt and confirm there’s nothing blocking bots; see the robots.txt reference at robots.txt specification.

Use webmaster tools for definitive answers. Verify the site in Google Search Console and in Bing Webmaster Tools to see Crawl/Index coverage, Manual Actions, Security Issues, and URL Inspection results. If a Manual Action or malware flag appears, it will be reported there and will explain deindexing or severe ranking drops.

A few site-structure and content checks relevant to ’s CSS-nav question: make sure navigation uses real anchor href links (not onclick-only JS), avoid hidden or cloaked text, ensure canonical tags point correctly, and confirm pages aren’t thin or doorway-like. A country-code TLD can limit geographic visibility; use the geo-targeting setting in Search Console if needed. ’s cache-observation suggests low crawl frequency—improving internal linking and earning a few quality external links raises crawl priority. and were right to point toward webmaster tools, but the above steps will help pinpoint whether the problem is a block/penalty, crawl issue, or simply low indexation because the site is new.

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Looks very clean. Good content. Good linking strategy. Last cache on 26 Jun 2006. No site links, no back links.

Bad choice of domain extension, should have went with a dot com. You can overcome the search engine's disfavour by staying clean and growing.

Sounds like a new site that's for sure. Keep doing exactly what you have been doing. You are in good shape. Patience and perseverence. Stay clean.

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Sign up for the Google Sitemap tool. Even if you don't use the sitemap, itself, it gives an overview of spidering patterns on your site.

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i have used one of those sitemap tools before they can tell google what to search

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