Do we know hOw do our site get banned or ommitted from the top search engines; meaning Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and Live.com?? mean When your site has been removed from Google's index and your traffic is falling. Here 5 Ways your site To Get Banned by Search Engines: 1. Linking to Unrelated Sites or Bad Neighborhood Link campaigns are good thing when done correctly; we would say they are a necessity in today’s SEO world. But linking to bad neighborhoods is a sure way to lose your ranking. If you aren’t careful about who you are linking to you can easily disappear overnight. 2. Spamming (Keyword Stuffing) “Stuffing†long lists of keywords into the content and the code on a page that makes the page unreadable. 3. Hidden Text If text or links are invisible to the website visitor but can be seen by search engine spiders then they are considered hidden.In the past people would simply make the text too small to read by using a 1 point font or make it the same color as the background. Now that search engines have built in algorithms to combat that, spammers are using cascading style sheets (CSS) to hide text or using < div > tags set to not display text on the page. It is boils down to this: it is considered hidden if the text or link is invisible to the website visitor but can be seen by search engine spiders.Search engines can easily spot this today so it is best to avoid it altogether. 4. Doorway Pages Pages that solely exist to rank well in the search engines. Sometimes these pages are ugly, containing paragraph after paragraph of meaningless text. Most the time doorway pages are orphaned pages meaning they are not part of the site’s regular navigation. 5. Duplicate Content or Websites Setting up multiple websites with the same content or having several pages on a site with essentially the same information but different keywords inserted here and there. You see the duplicate content method a lot with travel-oriented sites. A “template script†is written then regional terms, such as state or city names, are swapped out on each page. Any more ways you might know?
Trust me, it won't be too long before google will catch up with you. I have always told people, It is not worth the risk! Br seo_genius
google does have a page where people can report black hat websites and the response is very very fast from google...
Is it okay to copy articles from other sites/ blog but will mention the Source and have a link back to it?
My traffic dropped. How do I know if I am banned by search engines? Are they ways to be restored/ unbanned?
yes even I agree bad neighborhood is counted as suspicious in nature * Links intended to manipulate PageRank * Links to web spammers or bad neighborhoods on the web * Excessive reciprocal links or excessive link exchanging ("parallel links.") * Buying or selling links that pass PageRank
ok..I might be agree with you that bad neighborhood could get banned your website...But what if I add your websites in thousands of spam directories and websites. Do you think your website will get banned...
I would say the chances are these links are never indexed by google as most spam directories are already banned therefore not crawled. If these are crawled then as someone said earlier, its just not worth the risk, quality links are the way forward for any site
I think the meaning here of the word Bad Neighborhood here are those websites already banned from being indexed and linking them will give impression that your site was connected to the banned sites and serves as another portal to gain his traffic..