Hey, One of my site traffic has gone down, and getting low traffic from google, even though the site is still listen in Google searches. I have checked the domain name here and it says that it has been banned by Google: http://onlinealley.com/seotools/googlebannedchecker/ But on iWeb site, it says domain is not banned: http://www.iwebtool.com/google_banned Can you tell me how to find out for sure that domain name is banned? Thanks.
I think it is not banned if it is still in google search but can be penalized if receive lot less traffic. Why it's happening honestly I don't know. One friend said that for two sites like this seemingly very penalized by google without clear reason (doesn't violate google webmaster guidelines as far as i know) he did a reinclusion request at google and they answered that the site wasn't banned by their spam team! Strange.
Dear Matik, First, You forgot to write your website address. second, are you using google adsense aswell on your website and if yes can you see your adsense working? If it is working your site is fine if not It could be banned by Google. laptophospital.org
It would be easy to check whether its banned or still live with the help of a URL. I believe you are aware about this dork? If it returns pages from your site in the search results, then you are safe.
Yea it returns pages, but site is receiving less traffic, so what can be done about that? Until yesterday traffic was fine.
If its showing in search results, then your site is not banned! The reason behind less traffic may be a sudden drop in search engine ranking positions. Again, this drop might be a result of Google dance, or it might have been penalized. But, its too early to say that... You have to wait some time, and observe the traffic stats. If it continues to show a steady decline, then it might be penalized.
You likely just got sandboxed....in all likely hood, you will get your site reindexed in the future....
Don't worry it happens sometime. Continue your work on site and do some link building as well. You will see your site shortly on top.