Am I a victim of this 302 header thing?

[SirTalksalot]

Hi all,

I've been reading and trying to understand what this is all about, but my website has been up for nearly two months now and has not been indexed by google. A website (www.trafficswarm.com) was linking to me, and when I did the header check this is what I got:

"Status: HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:57:04 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.29 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.16 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_perl/1.29
P3P: policyref="http://www.trafficswarm.com/w3c/p3p.xml",CP="ALL DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa TAIa OUR IND ONL NAV STA"
Location: /index-b.pl?
Keep-Alive: timeout=3, max=150
Connection: Keep-Alive
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain"

I've since managed to stop them linking to me (I hope), but could this be why google won't index me? The thing is, I've got other websites which are far far far less popular and they have all been indexed. Can anyone tell me why I'm being ignored by google?

My site is www.talk-uk.com by the way.

[SirTalksalot]

Anyone know?

[Mogga]

Is findspot sending you traffic?

[SirTalksalot]

Originally posted by Mogga Is findspot sending you traffic?

Pretty sure they're not.

[SirTalksalot]

Originally posted by Mogga Is findspot sending you traffic?

I've just discovered, they don't seem to be sending me traffic but I AM listed in thier search engine. Is this what's stopping me being listed?

[Mogga]

Possible.
But with google the way it is don't sneeze it the wrong way else that might mess things up too.

[SirTalksalot]

Is it possible to write to them and ask what the hell is up? I know I'm probably being rather optermistic here.

[Mogga]

Yes you can contact google.
You can reports sites via the google spam page for bad results in the SE

http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html

Type(s) of problem :
Hidden text or links
Misleading or repeated words
Page does not match Google's description
Cloaked page
Deceptive redirects
Doorway pages
Duplicate site or pages
Other (specify)

Or you can find the email on google's site for sending them other info.

[SirTalksalot]

I was thinking more along the lines of asking them why the hell the are refusing to index me.

[chrisk999]

When I wrote to someone at Google about the silly hijack problem, they replied as if it didn't exist...:

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We understand your concern about the inclusion and ranking of your site. Please note that there is almost nothing a competitor can do to harm your ranking or have your site removed from our index. If you are concerned about another site linking to your site, we suggest contacting the webmaster for the site in question. Google aggregates and organizes information published on the web; we don't control the content of these pages.

So frustrating.

[Mogga]

"almost nothing"
Sure that used to be nothing
;-)