Help!

Well I don't know where to start. I believe I was listed in DMOZ at one time but do not see any listings for my site(www.buytacklenow.com) at this time.

I have noticed in the past few weeks my site stats have dropped way off on AOL and google. By this I mean the googlebot has not been to my site more than 12 times in the month of December and my ranking in both google and AOL have dropped way off.

I only am using google to try and explain my situation because of the large change in robot visits and referrals. In October I was hit by the googlebot 253 times and like I said before, in December only 12 times.

I am thinking that my server (host) had some problems and the spider could not spider my site and that maybe why I fell out of the index. I ran some tests with spiders of my own and was receiving errors relating to redirects. (I have no redirects)

Is it possible that DMOZ may have not been able to view my site or confirm it's existence and that is why I am no longer listed?

Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Richard Shuck
rich@buytacklenow.com

It appears to me that your site has never been listed at DMOZ, there is no indication it has ever been touched by an editor. As for ranking and Google, that has nothing to do with us so I couldn't even speculate. All I can speak for is that your site is not listed with the ODP.

Thank you

Kokopeli,

Thank you for your reply. I guess I was wrong about being in DMOZ. I will wait a few more weeks and then post a message in the URL status board.

This whole search engine and directory registration process will drive people crazy.

Thank you again,

Rich