Anybody even had a site removed from Googles index and then gone through the process of getting it included again. I want to know what I am to with a few of my sites that have been removed from googles index completly- even when you put the domain name in the search term- other sites(that link to me) come up. I have got a link for the Webmaster area where I ask to relist the sites (3) I am going to rebuild them first. Let me know your experiences.....
One of the sites i used to own got removed for months and then i realised it was an DNS issue, As soon as i got it sorted google crawled and indexed most pages in the following few days.
I've been to a training day - was invited by Google people as part of the "Google Ambassador" program - they talked about this issue... From what I understand - go to the Google SEO forum, (the one Google manages and moderates) - and raise this issue there... Another Idea I would think of - I would invest a small amount of money ($20 per month? ) to advertise with Google ads... or even integrate my site with Google search or Adsense... all these advices will cost you very little time investment - don't give up! Cheers, Uri
We managed to get our site banned from google a couple of years ago. Clean the site in question up (really clean) and resubmit to google. We did this alongside a grovelling email. Three months later the home page of the site was reincluded and over the next couple of months everything went back to normal. Regards Dave
i got my homepage de indexed for 3 days, turns out it was a glitch as the bot came and the site was down....i almost died that day
It happened to me for one hour last Saturday morning.....LOL I'm glad I missed it because I would have had a massive coronary or stroke!
Thanks Dave, that was the feedback I was looking for, and that was the process I had in mind- I have had 50 sites removed- i wont be grovelling for all- but some are worth it (sites with 900 links to them) we live and learn- some said google is god- No- google is faster at punishment! LOL
Yes, I had a website that was doing very well organically in google. 150k+ indexed pages and 5k uniques/day. I was making $150-$200/day just letting it sit off adsense and affiliate programs. I decided to use a page on that domain to send Craiglist traffic to. Bad decisions! Pretty sure CL informed Google and my site got completely de-indexed. You can definitely say I learned my lesson. Never do anything even a little 'grey' on a website you care about.
Hi Ryan, I met you briefly at the Stephen Piece event last year (I am one of Stevens Students and reader of ezine experiment- way back ) What happened has actually been a good thing -It made me look for a better system. I will rebuild the sites,(using a wordpress system -on steroids) as I get time and the quality will be better, and my niche research is better. I have found some good people to work with, when the product - (a wordpress dashboard type system) is top rate and support is excellent.
I have worked for a few clients that have come to me with sites that were removed from the index for a variety of reasons (spamming their meta info, keyword stuffing alt text, etc). You just really have to clean up any instances that are no-no's and draft a nice email to explain that you have made the appropriate changes that make your site Google friendly; I can't hyperlink b/c I'm a newbie on this forum but the URL for re-inclusion to the Google index is this: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35843
Thanks for the answer - I have the links and am starting the process. How long did it take from submission to approval?
^ The turnaround time was fairly quick. One site took about 3 weeks, but another took as little as 4 days. Good luck!
Never had any of my sites removed from index, and I don't plan on getting any of my current ones removed either. Whitehat SEO ftw.
I have worked out why the sites were removed- the site was similar design/layout to many others AND It also have too many affiliate affiliate links- 5 plus to amazon on each page. this would have made it an a "thin affiliate model" -(a site put up just for affiliate marketing). I have have had this happen with sites that use data feeds to create sites.
I had one of my site deindexed from google, after year was everything fine, crawled and indexed again. Don't know why been deindexed, I could only suppose, cause of some link exchange program.
I think there are glitches somewhere and it takes time and patience to be re-indexed by itself. . Nothing to worry about