Dropped From Google...Please Help! [Archive]

Manpasand

10-09-2005, 11:41 AM

One of my client's site has been dropped.

Earlier it was in top 10 ranking in all major keywords. e.g. "web design company", "website outsourcing", "web promotion company" etc. Few days back i have seen change only "web design company" keyword with other sites too but today ranking has been vanished from the result. These changes i have found in few datacenters at the moment.

Please help!

sootledir

10-09-2005, 07:24 PM

Lots of changes happening right now. Don't be too nervous yet.

Reporter

10-11-2005, 03:35 PM

viewtouch.com has also been made to disappear from Google Search. As far as Google's representation to its users is concerned, viewtouch.com does not exist. Thumbs down to Google.

bhartzer

10-11-2005, 03:40 PM

Reporter

10-11-2005, 04:55 PM

You're correct, viewtouch is banned in Google. Google doesn't ban sites without a good reason, so re-evaluating their Webmaster Guidelines will certainly help.

How were you able to determine this?

bhartzer

10-11-2005, 05:32 PM

Go to Google.com and search for the domain name (i.e., www.domain.com). You'll see that Google returns the result of "Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.domain.com". If you get that message the domain is banned.

Reporter

10-11-2005, 08:12 PM

You're correct, viewtouch is banned in Google. Google doesn't ban sites without a good reason, so re-evaluating their Webmaster Guidelines will certainly help.

online-web-solutions.com is not banned, it's still in the index.
It is absolutely true that Google will ban sites without notification and without providing any information as to what the specific 'good reason' is.

This web site has been on the net for over ten years and there have never been any emails of complaint to the webmaster. Logic cannot support your assertion that Google doesn't ban sites without a good reason, since Google doesn't provide reasons, explanations or notice when banning sites.

As Google progressively engages in banning sites it diminishes the accuracy, indeed, the truthfulness and integrity of its claimed mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

bhartzer

10-11-2005, 10:12 PM

Google routinely bans sites that don't follow their webmaster guidelines. They don't take into account how long a domain has been in existence nor how long it's been online.

Make sure the domain is in compliance with all their webmaster guidelines and make a reinclusion request.

Manpasand

10-11-2005, 11:09 PM

online-web-solutions.com is not banned, it's still in the index.This site isn't banned. Site has lost it's top ranking in some datacenters. May be its the begninning...

DarkMatter

10-12-2005, 10:45 AM

google doesn't email you to notify you if they ban you, nor will they tell you why if you contact them. why should they?

so far, everyone I have seen who has gotten banned was banned for violating the guidelines... http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html ...and almost all of them insisted that they hadn't violated the guidelines until someone pointed it out to them.

you would both do well to read them and review your sites for violation. in the time it takes to complain about it, you could fix the problem and get your site back in the index in a month or two.

5starAffiliatePrograms

10-12-2005, 02:03 PM

Please help! I am so freaked out. Never thought I would be writing this but I've been dropped too. I'm not banned because my pages show up when I do a site: domain.com search, but all my #1 rankings are gone and I had a ton! I can't be found anywhere now. Even a search in quotes in Google for "5 Star Affiliate Programs" does not show my main site. My blog and forums which are in different subdomains are getting more traffic and rankings than ever, it's just my main site that's disappeared.

I had a site re-design in Sept. The designer put the dev pages on my server, plus made a back up folder of my site. I've gone in there to check things and of course use the Google toolbar. Could it be a dup penalty? I also display my recent blog and forum headlines on several pages of site. But don't think that should cause a dup penalty. The designer did some stuff with CSS that I questioned and he said it was OK, but I wonder if it could be that.

How do I know if I'm being penalized for something or if it's just a temporary Google oops. I have never been dropped before and don't do any black hat stuff at all. Could someone bad have linked to me? How do I find out what happened and correct it? (Sorry for babbling, but I am totally freaked out.)

Linda

bhartzer

10-12-2005, 02:08 PM

Most likely, Google banned the site because of duplicate pages (specifically duplicate home pages (http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=%22graphical+narrative+about+how+Vi ewTouch%22&FORM=MSNH&srch_type=0).

bhartzer

10-12-2005, 02:10 PM

Linda, are you linking sites together that are hosted on the same Class C Block?

Reporter

10-12-2005, 02:18 PM

Most likely, Google banned the site because of duplicate pages (specifically url=http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=%22graphical+narrative+about+how+Vi ewTouch%22&FORM=MSNH&srch_type=0]duplicate home pages[/url].
I very much appreciate this tip.

dannysullivan

10-13-2005, 06:46 AM

Some additional advice:

Checking If You're Banned On Google (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050919-103817) on the SEW Blog runs down other ways to check if you've been banned.

Filing a reinclusion request (http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/reinclusion-request-howto/) from Matt Cutts at Google covers how to get back in, i f you are or suspect you are banned.

<<fixed 1st link>>

seopower

10-14-2005, 06:32 AM

Dont you guys think that this issue of ranking, getting banned, keyword ranking dropped etc. etc. spotted after last algo update of Google? Everything was so smooth before that...!

I was too on top positions in Google but suddenly rankings was taken over by JUNK subdomain results and gateway pages.

Now the most considerable thing I noticed is google keep on banning these junk results but every time a junk result disappers its position gets taken over by another junk result.

Now I dont know when this filteration will end because one think is sure that people will never stop posting spam junk pages.

Now I can see something similar is happening with Yahoo as well.

Just waiting for next algo update....

hiero

10-14-2005, 12:55 PM

When you write Google to inquire as to why your web site has been banned they will email you back with some general site specific reasons as to why. I have had success getting sites re-listed in a fairly reasonable time based on Google's feedback and their webmaster guidelines.

5starAffiliatePrograms

10-14-2005, 02:33 PM

Thanks hiero,

I didn't know G would give you any feeback. I have several people looking at my site now trying to figure out what could be wrong. No one has come up with anything specific yet that could be a problem. If I knew what was wrong I would change it in a heartbeat. Some folks at WMW say lots of sites that were recently re-designed got sandboxed. So could be there is nothing wrong with my site in particular other than the design is new.

What really is frustrating is that the site re-design was partly to look better, largely to make it easier to update and partly to clean up the code, which was a mess. I had designed the old site in FrontPage so the code was horrible and the site had all types of problems. However Google LOVED the old site. I learned a good lesson once again. If it aint broke - don't fix it! I wish I would have left it the mess that it was now and had not changed a thing.

If any of the gurus here have time to take a peak and give me any advice I would really appreciate it. If my designer used some coding or left a remnant of a link or did anything weird with the code I want it fixed. I would even be happy to pay a pro to analyze my site. But again maybe I'm just sandboxed.

Linda

glengara

10-15-2005, 07:19 AM

Linda, if you're using supplied descriptions of the affiliate programmes you probably have a fair amount of duplicate content, I'd keep a close eye on your html pages to see if any more go supplemental/Url only, and also change/remove any common content from your other site.

5starAffiliatePrograms

10-15-2005, 12:59 PM

Hi glengara,

Thanks for that. I didn't even think of duplicate content. I make it a point of writing my own full page affiliate reviews - never even thought of dup content, just like to write the benefits in my own style. I do have 2 big clients that each manage 20 - 40 programs. I did recently have my designer copy both of their affiliate directories (individual one paragraph description of each porgram) added all my other programs and made one big new combined directory. So some of the individual paragraph descriptions are the same but the whole page content is so different. So if that was it I would think lots of affiliate directories would be hit, but it's definately something to consider.

I also had summaries of my top 5 blog headlines on a couple pages. This was for my reader's benefit so they could see the latest news - not for any SE benefit. But I took that down too, just in case.

Thanks again. If anyone esle has ideas I am all ears. :confused:

glengara

10-15-2005, 03:40 PM

The affiliate area seems full of risk these days, most combinations of dup content, crosslinking, and AS seem to spell bad news....

5starAffiliatePrograms

10-15-2005, 05:23 PM

Yes am concerned about that, but I dont really do any affiliate marketing to speak of. I'm a consultant and do advertising and PR for only the top, high integrity programs. So my site is not filled with affiliate links at all and no datafeeds or dup content like that. Also no gray areas or bad neighborhoods. Its more of destination or authority site.

fathom

10-16-2005, 04:41 PM

Linda - by change is you old design still in FTP... a single mis-reported URL would have you 100% duplicated and linking to the original.

www cache (http://64.233.161.104/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-28,GGLG:en&q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.5staraffiliateprograms.co m%2F)

noted timestamps

no www cache (http://64.233.161.104/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-28,GGLG:en&q=cache:http%3A%2F%2F5staraffiliateprograms.com%2F )

fathom

10-16-2005, 04:49 PM

http://www.5staraffiliateprograms.com/tax-help-attorney.html

this may help - your two designs are interlinked.

note timestamp (http://64.233.161.104/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-28,GGLG:en&q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.5staraffiliateprograms.co m%2Ftax-help-attorney.html)

here's two of the calprits

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=19813

http://www.forum4designers.com/archive33-2005-6-271464.html

1. Since Google cache is quite recent if you replace old pages with original copy [articles] it will likely love you again quite quickly.

or

2. disallow all old pages in robots.txt

e.g.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /tax-help-attorney.html
Disallow: /next-page.html

and repeat for all old pages

glengara

10-16-2005, 05:12 PM

And IIRC, you also had some shared content with the Catalystmarketing site....

fathom

10-16-2005, 05:18 PM

BTW I still have a client that could use YOUR help! :D

5starAffiliatePrograms

10-16-2005, 05:41 PM

Thanks SO much for advice Fathom, but not sure what that means.

I do have some old pages out there still that I never updated to the new design. That tax attorney page is one that was never updated but didn't need to be.

Any pages that needed to be updated were and there are no dups. The pages are either old design or new design but no dups that I know of.

I did just yesterday notice too that Google still had the old design with NO WWW, in Cache and wondered how that could happen or if that could cause a problem. So are you saying that Google thinks http://www.mysite and http://mysite are both live sites that are dups? If you check the site with and without the www. all pages are the new design. Is it my fault G has not visited and cached the http://mysite version? Is there some setting my designer didn't do?

Also discovered some mistakes the designer made when he copied some pages to new design - like some pages had 2 titles and descriptions. Also discovered some off page stuff he did with CSS that I told him I was afraid would look like hidden text to the engines. He said no problem. I said take it out. THen today I just read from GG on WMW that IS a problem. Checked again and found some remnant code he didn't remove.

He was not doing SEO for me, just a site re-design to make it EASIER for me to update. I'm not a coder. Trying to dig through HTML to figure out whats wrong is like reading Greek to me. Now I'm trying to look at all this code stuff and trying to figure it out and I'm about to go crazy. I need someone to just tear this site apart and rebuild it right or something. If anyone here specializes in just checking and cleaning up code to make a site right, I will pay. I have no time for this and am at my wits end trying to figure it out.

Thanks!

5starAffiliatePrograms

10-16-2005, 06:01 PM

Fathom, always glad to help.

I am confused by the last part you added. http://www.5staraffiliateprograms.com/tax-help-attorney.html Is not a dup page. There are not 2 copies. It's just the old design. I didn't delete the old pages cuz they still get (or DID get) traffic. And surfer may still be looking for the info about the company. But I didn't need to pay to redesign many of the pages because they are programs I no longer represent.

So I have a bunch of pages some old design - some new but none are dups. Do I still have to do all the robots.txt? I would be easier to just delete all the old pages but do I need to if they are not dups.

glengara - Thanks, Cat was my 1st site. But WAY back when I built 5 star I did copy some paragraphs here and there for users not for any SE benefit. One site used to be more for merchants and the other affiliates, but over time everything has kinda shifted over to 5 star. I just started thinking about that yesterday. I guess I will just delete alot of what's on Cat cuz now most people go to 5 star instead.

glengara

10-16-2005, 06:08 PM

Point about Cat was dup content between similar topic/interlinked sites is VERY risky....

5starAffiliatePrograms

10-16-2005, 07:50 PM

I had not had time to check for site copiers yet, just did a little research and found this site which ripped my old site and copied it.
http://power2profit.tripod.com/

Reported to Lycos abuse, but not sure how fast they act on things.

Manpasand

10-17-2005, 03:20 AM

Now www.online-web-solutions.com (http://www.online-web-solutions.com) site's ranking has been vanished from the Google.

I haven't done anything wrong with this site and use all valid seo techniques.

Please suggest, what should I do to get back in Google.

5starAffiliatePrograms

10-17-2005, 11:53 AM

rockerarj

10-17-2005, 12:28 PM

Hi!

I was reading what happened with you and exactly the same thing has happened with my website yesterday.

I worked very hard to bring my website in visible regions for one of the world's most competitive industry keywords. My ranking increased and for top searched keywords my website was ranking #14 till yesterday on Google.

Today there's absolutely no trace even in the top 200 for the same keywords. I'm clueless how this has heppened. Lately as usual I had done a few changes in text and alignment but nothing that would make it totally invisible. Some of my pages are still showing up on a few keywords but these are the ones that haven't been indexed yesterday.

If anyone knows what I've done wrong, then please take out time to write a line..

Sincerely,
Rocker_arj

Manpasand

10-17-2005, 12:29 PM

Hi Manpasand,

I'm sorry that site was dropped and also sorry if it seemed I hijacked your thread. I was just joining the "Dropped From Google...Please Help!' discussion because it happened to me too.

Do you do any cross linking between your client sites? Have you checked G for any site copiers.

I just did a Google search for part of your title tag in quotes "Promotion Services by SEO Company". You come up #1 so you have not been totally dropped. I know thats not a phrase people would search for but the key is you show up. My site would not even come up when I searched for my site name. Did you just lose ranking for certain KW?

BTW that site copier I turned into Lycos... I already got a nice email from their abuse department that the site was removed for violating the TOS. WOW, that's what I call nice fast response time. Kudos to Lycos!
Finally after two comments you had responded my thread.

NO, I didnt cross link with client site.

For me site is coming in only with "online web solutions" keyword and loose the ranking in all competitive keywords not even "Promotion Services by SEO Company". As I said on 12th October it was a begninning but now totally vanished. I don't know whether it is some kind of penaly or tweaking the algo or other things.

It starts loosing ranking from only ONE keyword then after all keywords e.g. "web design company", "website outsourcing", "web promotion company" etc. I can say this site has been dropped 99.9% of all its related keywords.

Manpasand

10-17-2005, 12:44 PM

I was reading what happened with you and exactly the same thing has happened with my website yesterday.Without know your website URL, it is difficult to suggest you anything.

Please write your URL.

rockerarj

10-17-2005, 01:01 PM

Hi Manpasand,

Thanks for offering to help.

My website's url is http://www.londonhotels4u.com and it was ranking at #14 for "hotels in central london" till yesterday.. and now it's nowhere in the top 200 results.

Can having even one paragraph copied from another website lead to total removal from search engine results?

datingb2b

10-17-2005, 01:22 PM

I have a site, www.robrob8.com that was just dropped from Google as well.
This is my second site that has been dropped. The other is www.killrachel.com.
There is no connection between the two.
About KillRachel.com:
The site has been online about 3 years. Originally it was a Friends TV show fan site, of sorts. (Follow the 'Friends TV show' on the bottom of the left hand navigation on the home page.) I had recently changed it over as an affiliate site selling halloween costumes. I assumed, rightly or wrongly that it was dropped because of duplicate content, i.e. descriptions of products provided by the affiliate programs being deemed duplicate content. But when the site was changed over it saw a dramatic hike in traffic from Google for halloween costumes, then after about 5 weeks, Google dropped the site and traffic was reduced from Google from 1500 uniques a day to about 20.

About Robrob8.com:
The site has been online for about 6 years. Although the main content has been repeated on many sites, Robrob8.com was one of the first large computer pranks sites online. All of the programs and flash and other content, where possible, has the permission of the owners, where it was not created by me. Because the content is mostly original, I cannot see why it has been dropped.

I have reviewed the Google webmaster guidelines http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html and cannot see a reason, so I'm hoping that someone here can enlighten me.
I cannot afford this to happen to other sites I have, I'd have to get a job in the real world again!

Thanks in advance for your help.

Reporter

10-17-2005, 05:25 PM

My web site, http://www.viewtouch.com, is no longer banned by Google. I didn't even bother to inquire what was wrong there but the one thing I did change is to remove the page http://www.viewtouch.com/home.html from my web site because it was identical to http://www.viewtouch.com/index.html, which remained unchanged. Both had exactly the same content. I don't know if Google's 'unbanning' of my web site was a result of the removal of http://www.viewtouch.com/home.html or not. It sure is good to be at the top of the search engine again, though. It makes a huge difference in the money that flows around here, I can tell you all. It isn't right that a company should have so much power to make you invisible. The right to find what you're looking for on the net ought to be beyond the power of any company to obstruct.

5starAffiliatePrograms

10-17-2005, 05:59 PM

Yea Good for You! ~

After lots more reading and research today I'm starting to think for me at least it's a canonical URL issue (duplicate page rank for www and non-www). I have never used my non-www page and discovered not only is it in Googles old cache from July with my old site design, but the non-www page has PR1. If I've never used it not sure how that could be. Someone must be linking to me without the www?

I think that's what Fathom was trying to tell me yesterday but I didn't know what it meant or how to check it or how to fix it. I am trying to figure out how to do a 301 re-direct of non-www to www. Never even knew that was an issue before.

In addition to lots of other conflicting info, I found this from Matt Cutts blog:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bacon-polenta/ He says to do a 301 re-direct but someone else points out Google itself is using a 302 re-direct. I can't figure out how to do the re-direct anyway because there are different ways of doing it and the way I tried gave me a server error. So will see if my host can help. I feel like I got served double bacon on my polenta and all the grease is making me sick! :o

Marcia

10-17-2005, 07:21 PM

how to do the re-directHere's how, just create the .htaccess in the root directory and copy and paste

http://www.webmasterwoman.com/design-development/redirect-homepage.html

5starAffiliatePrograms

10-17-2005, 07:59 PM

Thanks Marcia - that's what I was looking for! A nice detailed explanation. I had seen a reference to your resource but it didn't include that specific url which had the concrete advice I was looking for.

In the meantime I had already contacted my host and they did something similar to my httpd.conf file, instead of my htaccess file. But it achieved the same result. All my non www pages now re-direct to my www pages. I SOOOOO hope this, in addition to some other changes I made regarding cross linking of my sites, takes care of things and Google picks me back up again.

sonnylady

10-17-2005, 10:06 PM

I'm a self-made websiter (if there is such a thing). I taught myself HTML (which doesn't look very pretty but works). I've worked hard for the past 6 years to get good placement for 'tennis gifts' 'cheerleader gifts' 'soccer gifts' and was on the first page for all until Google did their dance. Now I'm nowhere to be found. :(

I'd appreciate any assistance I can get to see what's gone wrong. I did set up 4 sister stores, thankfully, that bring in some business, but my main shop is gone. The only thing I've done lately (about 2 months ago) was to change the left-hand column to go to the sister store rather than staying within the main store. Could that be the problem??? :confused:

I'd really appreciate any help I can get on this. :) Thanks!!

My site is: http://www.4specialtygifts.com It is there when I type it into Google so they haven't deleted it.

jen85

10-18-2005, 05:18 AM

why are so many changes happening in google's result pages. What could be the possible reason for this?
Is it just google dance? or a change before google updates its index. :confused:

dannysullivan

10-18-2005, 08:04 AM

Some general discussion on the update is beginning over here, Oct. 2005 Google Update (http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=8261)

sonnylady

10-18-2005, 09:12 AM

Thanks, Danny, But that doesn't give us any answers either. And answers are what we need to fix our sites to get our ratings back. Google picked the worse time of year to do this - right before the holidays and 1/4 of all my business is done in December. At least it used to be. :(

ThouShaltSeo

10-19-2005, 12:44 PM

This is my second site that has been dropped. The other is www.killrachel.com.
There is no connection between the two.
About KillRachel.com:
The site has been online about 3 years. Originally it was a Friends TV show fan site, of sorts. (Follow the 'Friends TV show' on the bottom of the left hand navigation on the home page.) I had recently changed it over as an affiliate site selling halloween costumes. I assumed, rightly or wrongly that it was dropped because of duplicate content, i.e. descriptions of products provided by the affiliate programs being deemed duplicate content. But when the site was changed over it saw a dramatic hike in traffic from Google for halloween costumes, then after about 5 weeks, Google dropped the site and traffic was reduced from Google from 1500 uniques a day to about 20.

I have reviewed the Google webmaster guidelines http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html and cannot see a reason, so I'm hoping that someone here can enlighten me.
I cannot afford this to happen to other sites I have, I'd have to get a job in the real world again!

Thanks in advance for your help.

>> I have reviewed the Google webmaster guidelines http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html and cannot see a reason, so I'm hoping that someone here can enlighten me.

you had it right, 100% duplicate content will do

datingb2b

10-19-2005, 12:54 PM

>> I have reviewed the Google webmaster guidelines http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html and cannot see a reason, so I'm hoping that someone here can enlighten me.

you had it right, 100% duplicate content will do

That's what I've thought and I'm working on creating original content to regain the sudden hike the Killrachel site saw when the content originally went up. It's weird that once I had published the product descriptions that Google sent so much traffic then later dropped it off.

As Far as Robrob8.com I have no idea what happened. Any suggestions there?
Your suggestions are appreciated.

I'd also be intersted to know what the Google PageRank of the dropped sites are. I know that KillRachel.com has been a 3 since just a couple of months after inception and remains there today. And Robrob8.com was ans still is a PR 4. Are higher PR sites also getting hit with a drop in rankings, or just the 4's and lower?

I wopuld also imagine that other affiliate sites are also getting hit if they are 'product based' since there are only so many words to describe a product without falling foul of repetition.
For instance, if I sell candles they may be broken into several groups, votive, scented, round, square, tall, short, etc. Repetitive descriptive words to be sure. And with affiliate links leading to the sales page containing much of the same... well, with hundreds or thousands of other affiliates to contend with... I'd have to imagine more are being hit with the 'duplicate content' rule than are complaining here.

Although I do find that hard to fathom since products on my product pages are from a variety of sales sites. Why would Google go after a few words from many different landing pages and consider it 'duplicate content'. What about the "super mall" websites? Will they also be heavily penalized this coming sales season?

If this is true, this may spell the end of affiliate marketing. If it's just a blip of the month, I'm saddened to be hit so hard.

CactusJack

10-25-2005, 01:32 PM

For the past four years I was in the top 10 on Google for the search term business loans and business loan but now when I check I not in the first 500 positions. I use IBP to optimize my site and can't find anything unusual. I haven't changed a thing on my site but I have dropped like a rock. My site is http://www.carpenterleasing.com and any feed back would be appreciated. I might mention I have over 5000 links to my site active at that. I also am still in the top positions on MSN but Google it is a bad deal that has me puzzled. By the way my PR on this page is 5/10.

Best

Jack

Christopher Robinson

04-13-2007, 12:47 PM

Hi.

My site is over a year old, and I got on 1st and 2nd page results on Google for all of my keywords (even without many back links).
Then I have created and submitted Google site-map, with top priority for main page (it vent like that 1, 0.9, 0.8, 0.7, 0.6, 0.6, 0.6, 0.5,) And then I was drooped to about 10th page results for 90% of my keywords.
Thinking that something is wrong with the site-map I have submitted another one, that vent like that (0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5, for all pages) that didn’t help either.
So I deleted entirely site-map from my server, hoping that I can at least get back on 2nd page results, as I was before without sitemaps, especially now when I have about 50 good back links and PR-2, and that also didn’t help.
I’m really confused right now, please help me! Thank you.

PS. I also found out, that on one of my keywords, the same page is on 13th and 14th page results!?
www.AMRestoration.com

Big Juice

04-13-2007, 01:16 PM

Trying to do the right things sometimes rewards us with results we didn't want.

Young site with not a lot of links can not fair too well in Google and while I might have expected you to have decent placement for the first few weeks of the site's existance, I am not surprised to see that you lost your positioning.

Dude... get rid of the music loop as it is annoying for anybody who stays on your site for more than a few momments.

I can't imagine that all of those state and zip codes are helping you too much either. At least you didn't make them all links to the main page like some people are apt to do.

Build some decent inbound links to your site and after a time you will get some Google love.

Given that you are in an industry that doesn't restrict PPC I would seriously consider that route. For your type of busines I would even look into PPA or Pay Per Action for your site.

Another good idea to get people to come to your site is to offer free advice, maybe someone out there could use a little simple home repair advice. If people find your site useful they will tell others and perhaps even add some links to your site on their own.

Don't worry about what Google or any other engine is doing, just create a great site for people and not search engines.