LOR - my sites have gone
 

LOR has figured prominently at or near the top of my 'daily hits' stats for almost 2 years now but a few days ago, for the first time, it dropped out of sight completely.

I've had a look for my Free Sites on LOR but can't find any.

Have I unknowingly committed a major offence or have you just had a gigantic springclean? I'd appreciate you looking into it please. The domain is www.japamor.com

Cheers

Obviously, I'm not with the LOR, but out of curiosity - why don't you have anything on the root of your domain? That can be an extremely bad strategy when it comes to those damned pesky SEs, especially when it comes to gaining PR on subpages.

Hi UW
I'm not sure what you mean. Is it the forward slash at the end or the http:// at the beginning of the URL that I should be including?

Japamor, I get a 403 "Forbidden" on your root.

Same here ... 403 at http://www.japamor.com/

I see what you mean.
The top-level folder I'm seeing at the server is one with just a forward slash against it. I find that I can't rename it or do anything with it. I'll contact my Hosting company to see what I can do.
Thanks for your help eveyone. |thumb

It's somewhat dangerous to do all your freesite posting on one domain. You make one mistake, or your server hard drive dies and the ll spider hits your domain before the backup is reinstalled, and you lose all your good listings.

Just upload an index.html page to your root.

That's done. index.html uploaded and no more 403. I can't believe its that easy.
Thanks for that very handy advice Bill, and again thanks to UW, Lemmy and Simon for helping to plug another large gap in my webmaster knowledge! :D

Ironically UW tried to plug my gap while I was drinking by the pool.....

Slightly different out come.... |thumb

Well, it took all three of us to plug Japamor's...
...sounds like you must have a smaller gap!

:D

Japmor - our best guess is that Google has blacklisted you. You had a lot of sites listed on LOR, but none of them have any PR & the 403 on the root probably wasn't helping things.

You might want to set up the index page as a hub & list all the sites that you have on the domain on there & hope that Google recognizes it, spiders the entire site & lifts whatever ban they have that is not giving you any PR.

Of course this is all just a guess.

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Right, thanks GG I'll do that and see what happens. |thumb

How does this affect my future submissions to LOR. Can I keep submitting as before, or should I change to another domain?

what is better? have your root listing all the sites and galleries from the sub folders or use the root for a fake tgp and or LL listing some hosted stuff...

thing is I never linked back to my roots but I could trade links and link back to it as long as I didnt break any LL rules for a # of links out...

right now on my roots of my 2 main submitt domains I have single pages up with links to my LL and a notice of under construction of a LL or tgp

Hmm... I didnt even consider that I may not get listed (or I may have my sites removed) because of no PR due to not linking back to my domains root and interlinking things better. Good tips in this thread.

I guess building an actual site on the domains root would be best. Linking to a fake tgp from my free sites may get me rejected from a few ll's. Im guessing real ll or a hub that lists a clean version of all my free sites would be probably be best.

I'm not sure that linking back (or not) the the domain's root from each free site is going affect much for the free site itself. My point was that there was nothing at all at the root of the domain in question, and that that _may_ have caused the complete lack of PR on any of his pages on that domain. It's the only correlation I can come up with. Perhaps Google assumes that anything on a domain with no root content must not be worth anything. I don't know. Either way, it's not good.

Here's a related point. For any domain which you use for free sites- if you have no other site to place at the root, you should, at the very least, have a page there that links out to all of the free sites on that domain.

And as Bill stated - never put all of your free sites on a single domain. Spread them out many. If a domain gets stolen or Google bans it, you don't want to lose it all.

Very good point UW. The first domain I owned was pr0 for a couple of years. The domain had an index page that listed the free sites on the domain and the rest of the page was pretty much a banner farm. Once I cleaned up the root index it went to pr3 on the next update and that got passed along to the free sites which varied from pr1 to pr2.

http://www.japamor.com/xxxx/classic1/index.html

Yet that has PR (although it currently shows as not being indexed).

You all said some things that had me thinking. I was more or less just thinking out loud rather than replying to any particular post. Instead of going with a free site hub, a link list or a tgp Im going to go with something a bit different. I will make each root into a hub but it wont be a more free porn type hub. Maybe some custom fpa's in the niches I submit to or something like that would be better. Still just thinking out loud :)

Yeah, that was the first site I checked out when I saw this thread.

Not to detract to much from Japamor's problem, but I find it interesting that he's got a hub with retained PR, yet the free-sites stemming from that hub have all dropped their PR recently -- if my understanding of what happened is accurate. Sound like a familiar problem to anyone?

As of right now, you're domain is banned :(

You're not the only one - I had to remove 100 or so listings that a good friend had because of a similar situation. My suggestion (or guess) is that you should work on cleaning up that domain, get a legit index page on there & wait to see if Google gives you some PR.

site:http:www.japamor.com looks like it isn't banned...

http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:...s&ct=clnk&cd=2

uhm, how do you check if a domain is blacklisted by google?

check this out I had PR 3 and 4 PR free sites on a domain that had a lot of sites and most now have no PR but 2 or 3 - also note I build NO doorways...

My other domain has at the most 30 sites with no doorways and has 3 or 4 sites that have PR all the other has PR gone...

this no PR in google thing is IMO a algo change that fucked up and next update the PR will be back... And IMO PR doesnt mean shit

example my one LL LOST all PR on the category pages BUT ONE....

This is the 4 or 5 straight month that G likes my site more than the month before and when I lost PR on all my category pages weeks ago - MY google listings never wavered

I check and see if Google is indexing anything at all with site:domain.com

Bingo, and he is not alone. This has effected many others.

The category pages are still indexed however, so I don't think that this is a ban: Japamor is indexed.

I know others think that the pr update was messed up and this will self-correct, but my impression is not so optimistic. I fear that these noticeable PR changes are reciprical link penalties that are starting to go into effect, so lists and free-sites with nothing pointed to them but reciprical links -- including hardlink trades -- are getting hit the hardest. Older sites have kept their PR levels perhaps because of bookmarkers links, toplists that have pages pointing to them that have not made a displayable ranking, and perhaps Google is giving a nod to sites that have just been around longer.

It's also been suggested that linklists that are found to be spamming in one way or another are getting marked and sites that have reciprical links to these sites are getting penalized for being in a bad neighborhood.

I guess my point is Japamor is not alone and it will be interesting to see how this effects our business model in the long term.

Won't affect it all. It'll just make it worthless to submit free sites. :D

Japamor - if it makes you feel any better, I think my listings were dropped too. |boobies|

hmmm i a bit confused by all of this especially the "no pr" part. does this mean we need to let our free sites spin in cyberspace until they get some pr on them? or should we go ahead and submit and there is a time line that after so many days/weeks/months if no pr shows up, we'll be delisted? Does this override the "listing forever" post of a few months back?

did i mention i'm on drugs and cannot be trusted with a keyboard these days?

:D

Are these seem changes/dropped listings happening at Smut Gremlins? I can't seem to find my sites there either.

she has hee links set to expire as some of my not so old links are gone but more newer links are there, there are reasons for links to be removed after so long if your seo plan is focused around that

I too have had the waivering PR thing with my LLs category pages since the beginning, as I'm sure that most of us have, so I've never paid any attention to the PR voodoo. I've seen respected members of this board, with an abundance of SEO knowledge and experience, say time and time again that one shouldn't base link trades on PR, and I shall continue to follow their advice. That's what a reciprocal link on a free site is - a link trade. I link to you, you link to me, everyone is happy.

::gentlystirring::

Makes sense.

In that context, how do you (generic "you") handle those link lists which don't keep your free sites listed forever?

I mean, if I had a link trade with you, say between one of your link lists and one of mine, and you took my link down, it would seem to be fair/correct to take down your link on my site, right?

So, do you remove the recips for link lists which drop your free site listings based on a 'expire date' or do you leave the recips up?

If you remove the recip, do you replace it with another LL recip and then submit your free site to that LL? Or is it just build and forget, including forgetting that some LL won't list your free sites forever?

Let me make one thing clear - I am not solely basing this on the lack of PR - I'd be insane to do that.

I'm assuming there is a problem with the domain because of a number of things - it's been around for almost 2 years, I had 100 or so sites listed on my pages, so there are a lot of links to sites on this domain from Link Lists & whatnot. 1000 listing in Google with no links back to the domain caused concern as well. The 403 on the index baffled me and still does - I can't grasp a legit reason as to why it was left as 403 & not set up with any sort of page.

Based on the age & the number of links, there should be PR on the domain, but there isn't & that leads me to believe that there is a problem.

Hell, today I see no PR at all, which might be a good thing & does lead me to believe that it was the 403 on the index that caused the alleged problem.

Some have agreed with me & some haven't, but I feel it's better to be safe than sorry.

Bash me if you want - and if some PR appears, I can easily add the sites back in (I was planning ahead & saved the links I deleted in a separate file)

Could you clarify which domain you are speaking of. I assume that it's japamor.com since I never submitted 100 links to the LOR. ;) There may be some confusion at this point in the thread because some readers here now know that the links from whoringwives.com appear to have been dropped as well, though I haven't been given a confirmation on that.

I'm speaking about japamor.com - but I will now look into whoringwives.com as I was not aware of a problem (and you know I'd have said something to you if there was)

Links to whoringwives.com were removed on July 11th, but it was not blacklisted, which 99.44% of the time means there was a DNS issue. MML was not the one that ran the linkbot on that day, or I'd have heard about it. I'll ICQ you now.

Just a friendly follow-up - We we're both on a planes to Vegas on the 11th, so I can't say for sure what was going on with that domain. Only the free sites from that one domain were removed (luckily), but not the sites on my other two free site domains. A DNS issue would have been odd, but the server that my stuff has been on had been occasionally bogging, so that was probably the culprit - and that's one of the reasons that everything is being moved to new host. WW is now pretty much alone on the old VPS box and will get moved sometime this month. Sooner rather than later.

As far as the lists that 'expire' free site listings, I have, up until now, never really given that much thought. I honestly didn't realize that SG had that six month policy. If I was already editing a particular free site and I noticed that I had a recip up to a list that I knew wasn't linking back anymore, I might take the extra couple of seconds to take the link down and possibly replace it with another. Would I go looking for old free sites to remove recips under those circumstances? No. It's not worth effort and, in most cases, that link list would have given you much more traffic in those six months than what the value of that single non-recip link could ever make up for. Plus, if you want the big lists to retain their ability to provide loads of traffic, you want to see them doing well in the SEs. I believe non-reciprocated inbound links are part that success.

When it comes to other situations, such as never getting listed or having a listing dropped for other reasons, then yes - I do remove/replace those recips if I have the time and KNOW that the listing is dead. GG has offered to relist the dropped free sites and I had to admit to him that I've already begun replacing the LOR recip on that particular domain's free sites.

EDIT: And now the Green One just ICQ'd me to let me know that he has just re-added my sites anyway. Damn him!

Greenie - you know Im not gonna bash you - but the line of reasoning doesnt make any sense from a Link List point of view - unless Ive been out of the loop way too long - the point of listing free sites and providing a recip trade for that listing was all traffic based - and had no basis in where a free site ranked or for that matter, whether it was even listed in SE's?? Now I know that a few LLs have made a point of rewarding free sites that existed with Google rankings but that was extra bonus's - not the basis of acceptance for listing

The problem of not showing PR can probably be easily explained in this case because he doesnt do any interlinking within that domain - if he didnt have an index page that would make sense - and for that matter he may have a noindex in his robots text for Google - it doesnt matter though because that was never anywhere near a rule for acceptance - Google certainly doesnt show true PR anywhere and hasnt since almost two years ago - as well as their link: command being scaled back to just show a representative sample of links

If I were going to try to look at whether a domain is banned it sure wouldnt be in Googles index - I would use the domaintools whois tool as they will show blacklisting of domains for spam etc.

/added - I suppose if someone really wanted to go to the trouble of worrying about free sites having some acceptance in SEs - the first rule I would have to add is that I would be able to spider the robots.txt as Im sure there are some WMs out there that do prevent some robots from spidering their pages - I know of one host already that is used by some free site submitters that throttle robot flow and in some cases a free site submitter has (for some reason) prevented robots

Forget this domain, because I'm still thinking that the 403 on the index was the problem.

You would knowingly link to a site that you believe (or know for sure) is banned by Google or Yahoo or another popular search engine?

Greenie - first off I dont think that the 403 on the index would cause a removal - only if the 403 occured on the free site itself - I really dont care what they have on the root index unless its something objectional/against the rules - and Im pretty sure the bot you use doesnt check the index page on the root - just the sites listed - but that may just be something youre doing on the side that I didnt know :)

As far as the SE stuff - first - the keyword here is knowingly - and Id say that in pretty much every case Ive looked at where someone has posted that a domain is banned in Google - it was not - someone had looked at Google using thier little script tool or some other sites tools and decided that it was banned - which in Google is highly unlikely and very few and far between. Unfortunately a lot of "SEOs" have decided that Google bans sites/domains for all types of reasons - and this just isnt so - they may hand remove a domain/site based on some spam reports from the index - or go so far as to supplemental out some pages based on dupes - but banning at Google really is saved for extreme cases. Now if they are "not listed" that is a different scenario and can be caused by reasons ranging from not being crawled properly, not enough time since first crawled to be included, not linked to properly etc etc - hundreds of reasons - but none that would stop me as a linklist owner from listing the site.
I have looked at the tools that some of the "knowledgeable SEOs" are using to determine if a site is "banned" by Google, and all it checks is backlinks (which Google has already stated is fake), PR (which again Google has already stated is faked in the toolbar) and occasionally they mine into some areas of Google that they "interpret" to their liking for indicators of "bannedness"

So as I said - the keyword here is knowingly - and quite honestly there is no way to "know" because Google aint gonna tell ya