Banned for Blogging

5 days ago I signed up on over 60 blogs, and on each have posted a news paragraph and a link to one of my domains. Today that domain is banned on Google.

We are running 23 other domains with identical sites except for the content, so the blog issue may be the culprit.

- The domain is only about 4 months old.
- It is running about 500K pages with high-quality content (affiliate catalog datafeeds; comments, ratings, pictures, searches, everything.)
- It looks like a high-end shopping site, and will definitely withstand Google's new Chinese/Indian manual review.
- Four other domains run into the same host, each with different portions (one fifth) of the datafeed. Thus, duplicate content isn't happening.
- We did XML sitemaps early on, and have come to suspect like everyone else that they are just a trap for Google to find and penalize networks.
- We do not link across our sites.

Does anyone think that the blog could be the culprit (strange as it may seem), or is it more likely some other characteristic of the site that's to blame? I can't believe I could be blocked just for blogging, but there it is.....

 

how do you know it is banned? Are you getting a grey pr bar?

 

Spam is a terrible thing...

PS: Nice looking site TD, but why 60 blogs?

 

I hate to ask a question inside of your question, but what is "Google's new Chinese/Indian manual review"? This is the first I have heard of this... Did I really miss it in these forums? I read here very extensively.

 

Google has hired an anti-spam team. I don't know about Chinese/Indian - the people I've seen write about it have all been european.

It's basically a program they have where they have people look through the serps, go to the sites, and flag spam sites as spam.

 

Ah, thanks for the information. Much appreciated.

 

>>>500K pages with high-quality content<<<

is that an oxymoron? sorta like "government intelligence".

and aren't affiliate catalog datafeeds duplicative content by their very nature? you may not be duplicating it among your sites, but how many other people are?

i'll second the question on what "banned" is.

 

you made me laugh hard.

 

I second that, and there is a chance that the problem lies in it.

 

I have to think some form of spam filter or trigger is at work... 60 is excessive, hell, 5 is too much...

 

right. There is no way for anyone here to determine exactly what happened IMO, but if something does not make sense to us, then chances are that the search engines have found a way to detect those things as well.

 

hehe, ST, I think you just gave us way too much credit...

 

... or the search engines

 

Thanks for the suggestions. I guess it's impossible for anyone to help without more info, so here is the URL of the banned site: http://www.01planet.info.

To recap, this site was banned immediately after I linked to it in 60 new blogs that I started for this purpose. However I agree with many here that banning is a little extreme. Some additional clues:

1. The host account is running 2.5 million pages in MySQL.
2. This is one of 5 domains that are each running 500K pages out of it.
3. Thus, there isn't any content duplication in the product catalog.
4. However, all the pages that are not product catalog (main category pages, "corporate" pages, etc.), ARE duplicates.

So I may be answering my own question here, because if they were manually reviewed you would indeed see duplicate content between the 5 domains, but only on the pages mentioned above in #4.....