2 years ago a decent money-making website of mine was banned from the Google Index after 3 years of existance. No Google crawls, No pages in index, no incomming links, no nothing. Just big zeros in the Webmaster Tools. I didn't think it was justified. Yesterday as I'm viewing my Commission Junction stats I see sales had jumped for a link on that website. I check my traffic stats and see that Google is again sending traffic to that website after 2 years. I then look at Webmaster Tools and see that after 2 years my website is back. It again has thousands of pages, hundreds of backlinks and is ranking for many keywords. Just as it was 2 years ago. I'm totally shocked since I haven't made 5 posts to that that site this year. I'm curious ... has anyone had a LONGER elapsed time between a Google Ban and Reinstatement?
You bet, Got hit by a filter during Big daddy in 2006 and dissapeared completely . Now 2 months ago back the site comes from the dead and getting good Google traffic again..
You figuring it has something to do with this latest update too? Interesting that the site was apparently in violation of something 2 years ago but not now.
Yes, my observation about justified (not by error or filter) penalisation/banning is, they could take up to 4 years to "forget/forgive".