I had a site kicked out of Google for 2 years. Tried everything in the book to get back in the index and nothing worked. Removed cloaking Removed duplicate content Removed invisible content Removed unrelated text Removed unrelated links Removed any suspected bad neighborhoods Improved the backend code Improved content generation Added navigation Added clear navigation Increased content-to-links ratio Added to Google webmaster tools and submitted regular reinclusion requests to Google. Never got more than form emails and canned replies. I searched all kinds of webmaster forums. Read hundreds of threads and thousands of replies. Posted questions and created threads. Nothing worked! This was over a period of 2 years!!!! Then, one day, purely by accident, I stumbled on a way to get my site back in the index. If I had known this 2 years ago, it would have saved me tens of thousands of dollars. What did I do? I submitted a DMCA request. This got my site reincluded in Google within days, all penalties dropped, and all pages re-indexed. The rankings haven't returned to where they were in 2006, but some are in the top 10 again! I can't wait for the next Google update to see if everything is completely restored. If so, happy days!
great to hear you had success but can you explain your dmca request a little better? my understanding of dmca requests is usually to get a copyright infringing site out of the index.... how did you use it to get your site back in the index?
I think you could of also went to their google groups and explained your situation. In all honesty, I don't see why Google would keep a site out of their search for 2 years.
That's fine if you want to beg Google for leniency. But, you do have rights to the index and placement. Don't think Google can just put sites in any order they wish without consequences.
DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) is a notification you send to Google that another website is using your content without your permission. If your website has dropped in rankings and another website has not, AND they are using YOUR content, this is a way to get your rankings back. This is what he told me.
will it hurt you to file an reinclusion if you only have a penalty .. in other words, is it worth a shot if your site has gotten penalized in the past few weeks to file a DMCA?