Banned from google

A few of my websites are hosted on a shared server, one of which got banned for reasons I do not know of, also I have another site with high PR hosted on the same server. If an ip address is "tainted", would all websites hosted on that server be penalized? Would they have any PR at all? I'm thinking about getting another website going, should I get a dedicated IP or stick with the shared server, and hope google doesn't block the site?

Thanks.

 

Google won't penalize an entire IP. Look how many sites share are on Yahoo's shared servers.

 

Is getting blocked the same as getting banned/penalized?


"Thank you for your reply. Please note that your page has been blocked from
our index because it does not meet the quality standards necessary to
assign accurate PageRank. We cannot comment on the individual reasons your
page was removed. However, certain actions such as cloaking, writing text
in such a way that it can be seen by search engines but not by users, or
setting up pages/links with the sole purpose of fooling search engines may
result in permanent removal from our index. Please read our Webmaster
Guidelines at http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html for more
information.

Regards,
The Google Team"

 

Yeah, blocked means banned.

 

Will all sites that link to a blocked site get penalized?

So what you're saying is, i should stick with the shared IP?

 

I have another question, if a site is penalized by google, will it have any PR at all? What if the site is on a tainted IP address?

 

penalized site could have PR, but not a banned site. IP addresses don't get tainted.

 

http://www.google.com/search?hs=Obn...n-US:official&q=tainted+ip+google&btnG=Search

Could someone explain this? I've been reading a few articles that talks about how a tainted Ip can affect everyone hosted on the server.

 

Apparently some people believe that Google penalizes entire IP's, but I don't. Why would they ban or penalize 100,000 sites just because one on the same server breaks their rules?

 

Hmm you've got a good point, but two of my sites have been banned already, and they're both hosted on the same server. Could it be because I linked to it using the banned site?

 

Did you just write to google, and they responded with that message. I want to ask them whether i'm in their index, but i never thought they would give a personal response.

 

Yeah I wrote to them after a few weeks of not being listed, I would wait first before contacting them.

 

Can anyone confirm that google wont ban IP addresses??