Re: Site isn't being indexed

Happy New Year everyone :-))

As far as I know - Phil is correct. The duplicate content-thing is a
"filter", ie the URLs are indexed, but they do not display unless you
query in a way that they are unique and relevant. Eg. if you query for
"tennis" I would assume that perhaps only one of them would show (ok,
not at the moment :-)), but if you were to query for "tennis washington
dc" then you would have a better chance of having that one domain show
up. There is no way to "deactivate" that for a domain (unless you
differentiate yourself with more content: eg instead of just "tennis in
washington dc" write up a small description of the area, some of the
good clubs, players from there, etc. etc.).

If your site is being hit by the duplicate content filter, you should
still be able to do a site: and inurl: query and get the correct count;
sometimes you have to combine that with a keyword as well ("com" from
the domain name will usually do) - eg "inurl:tennisdc.com com".
However, I don't think those two sites are currently indexed completely
at all, mostly because of lack of natural, valueable links.

The changing of the descriptions is something that you might need to
wait a bit on. Since your sites have so few links, it is not that
"important" for Google. Google will not crawl and update your site that
often, it might take days, weeks, etc. - it is impossible to say in
advance, even if you see when Google crawls the site. You might be able
to speed that up by making some content changes on the pages in
question, then when Google re-crawls, it will recognize that you have
some larger changes and might update everything -- "might" is the word
though, there is no rule that Google has to follow, at least nothing we
can influence directly :-))

If you really need some links and want the sites to get indexed
quickly, you can try to get some good text-links from a high-PR site
(just make sure it is really a good site, not one with just a
pr-number). There are several companies that do that for you
(textlinkbrokers.com comes to mind) and you should be able to get a
link from a PR6 site for something around $60-$100/month. If you just
want the sites indexed, a single month will probably be enough.
However, keep in mind that Google is getting better and better at
finding paid links, so you might want to choose a site that will also
send you valuable traffic, not just some PR-bonus. Some other ways are
listed here:
http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=30332 (good
forum, by the way, you might want to let them check out your sites).

Hope it helps!
Cheers + have a great start!
John