Hi, we had a listing for this new site for about a month, and now its
disappeared from Google totally. I have tried all the tools (I think)
mentioned on this group to see if I have done anything wrong, but its
beyond me Im afraid if I have. Can anyone shed any light please
http://www.harleystenerife.com

Reconsider using the charset "windows-1252". I had a couple of sites
with the
meta tag like yours and everything was fine when viewing with IE and
Netscape on Windows.
Then one day I had the chance to view the site on RedHat Linux 6.02.
All of my
"highly informative" text looked like the following:
??? ????? ????????? ????? ?? ????? ???? ??????? ????? ??? ???? ????????
????
????? ??? ???? ?? ???

I tested it on other similar systems and on each system all letters
were turned
into question marks. Everything looked OK with Windows but not Linux.
Instead try using ISO standard charsets. You should too. You don't have
anything to
lose and as i understand it google use Linux which could explain why
your site has on the face of it been sand-boxed.

Thanks I will look into this one,
Ive looked in the Group for past topics on character sets and HTML
Encoding... but found nothing to help, what is the difference please
between
windows-1252". and ISO standard charsets, and what difference does it
make, and probably more importntly for the future what is recommended.
Thanks

Mick wrote:
Google likes ISO-8859-1 encoding (and also UTF-8):

http://groups.google.com/group/googl...2770c4a6f0134d

Mick wrote:
Your site is not banned:

"Results 1 - 1 of 1 from harleystenerife.com"
http://www.google.com/search?&q=site...fe.com&num=100

I can't find any incoming links to your site. Get them, because they
help your site to get indexed and they also help it to rank higher in
search results.

Thanks again Tomi, its just appeared again on Google. Thanks also for
the encoding info, Im using Microsoft Frontpage to write this site, and
the amongst the options to use are "Central European ISO-8859(2)" or
"Unicode (UFT8)" Could you kindly advise me on the best option.
regards
Mick

Mick wrote:
The language used on your site seems to be British English, but you
also might want to use Spanish language some day because of your
location (Tenerife), so you could use ISO-8859-1 (doesn't include euro
symbol), ISO-8859-15 (includes euro symbol), or UTF-8 (includes euro
symbol). If you can't find ISO-8859-1, I suggest you select UTF-8,
which supports many languages. (If you will use the euro currency
symbol €, you might want to use the € entity instead of just
typing the euro character, because some web browsers might have
problems showing the euro symbol correctly.)

Related links:

http://std.dkuug.dk/CEN/TC304/guide/GIS8859.HTM
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars.html
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/html/euro.html
http://pipin.tmd.ns.ac.yu/unicode/ww...tm#Euro%20Sign
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/EuroSymbolFAQ.mspx
http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/as...883391033.aspx

Tomi, thank you for your time and expertise, I have lots to learn, but
"bit by bit".... many thanks Mick