Can I be banned by Google for one keyphrase only?

As above. Would it be possible to be banned for a 'two word' key phrase only? I used keyword links in the past for this phrase, could this happen?

 

I don't see why this would happen unless you flat out spammed your keywords. There's no reason for Google to ban keywords on you just because of link exchanges, unless ofcourse they're to bad neighbourhoods.

 

I must have had a few hundred links. Is this too many?

 

If you have a few hundred link exchanges that were all on one page, or to sites that didn't relate to your site at all then yes. Google probably took it as a link farm and they really don't like that.

 

So how long would this sort of ban last?

 

Anyone know?

 

Remove the problem and email Google begging for their forgiveness! I read about other webmasters that have tried it and got the ban removed fairly quickly (week or so)

On thier site in the webmaster section is a email address you can use. Hope it works for you. If so, post again and let us know.

 

No. A penalization or filter effects the whole site so their is no way it would only effect 1, 2 or more keywords alone. However you can be penalized and still rank for low competition keywords while the penalization or filter will keep you from being ranked for high competition ones. Because you have not given us any insight into why you would get penalized I can not be sure what it is. If you linked to a bad site remove the link and tell google. If you still have the link or other penalization factor don't bother emailing them as they will ignore you.

 

there is chance that any important sites from which u had backlinks might gone down or banned if u feel only some part of your site gone down.

 

No there isn't. NO MATTER WHO LINKS TO YOU IT WILL NEVER HURT YOU!!! Try it! Try and get your competitors banned by getting them thousands of spam grey-barred sites. It won't hurt them unless they link back. Be careful giving bad advice.

 

I think that it is possible that Google can filter (not ban) sites for specific phrases. I created a site two years ago with a two word hyphenated domain name. It was sandboxed for 15 months but even yet it does not rank for the two words in the domain. It does reasonably well for most other phrases so I think it can happen.

 

What you have is a case of insufficient importance for that phrase. Some people think all they need to do is register a domain with a keyphrase and they should rank for it. However it isn't that easy. If you don't have enough quality backlinks with that specific anchor text in them you will not rank for it and I am not referring to directory or links page links.

 

I agree with you, i have domain with main keyphrase on it.
only with 1000 backlinks on Google, i got rank #2 position after 3 years optimazing only on quality of anchortext on my backlinks

 

How do you know if google can filter sites for certain keyword phrases only?
I have read shortly from an SEO guru, that this has been the case for some websites, their sites has been thrown out of the top 1000 for certain keyword phrases, because they have gathered very much backlinks in short time with same anchor text.
Google learns always further and punishes all that seems unnatural.

 

Believe me your NOT dealing with a seo guru because NO MATTER how many backlinks you gain in how short of time it will never hurt you as long as you aren't reciprocating. If they could every BH in the world would use it to ban competitors. See what I mean?

 

Great explanations, even Zorro use Black Hat...don't you

 

No gaining backlinks fast is not black hat but genius. And no I never have and never will use BH.

 

pieman_fellis,

actually this sounds like the typical sandbox scenario. Where they let you rank for all "unimportant keywords" but not for the highly competitive ones. Happened to us before too. What you can try: The ones you regard as "banned" will come out of it at some later time naturally, or you can speed up the process by doing a massive linking campaign from authority sites and "newsworty sites" like technorati etc, delicious, and a few high pr links from "news and media" type of sites. Almost certain it will fix your problem in 30 days max.

 

What do you mean with "They LET YOU rank...not for the highly competitive ones"?

Visio, you can read it here, for example: http://www.bradfallon.com/2004/12/discuss-stomper-update-googles-new-link-trap-warning.html
Brad Fallon is a SEO Guru.

And about your theoretical reason, it's highly unlikely, that one person will put 1000s of links to one webpage. And if so, they would have no high pagerank, and so they anyway have no substantial impact of the ranking, so there's no reason to google to do anything about it.
That's what i think to it.

 

AndyZ:

That is an interesting article. Does the link trap really exist? If so how can it be repaired?