I have one site that appears to have been blacklisted, as the site has completly vanished form google altogether for the past 3 days.. The site is at www.acceptcreditcards-cheap.info I'm not really upset about the blacklisting, as it was really more of an expirament than anything, but I am interested in finding out why it was blacklisted. I did not purposly use any blackhat SEO techniques. There are a couple of different possibilities for why this site was blacklisted, and I'm wondering if I could get your opinion on each, as well as your own possibilities. 1.) I 'bent' the rules of Ad Sense by placing images next to advertisements. My opinion here is that they wouldn't have banned it from google for this, they just would have banned the site from adsense if they found it to be objectionable. 2.) Nearly all of the main pages are derived from a search of the database. Even though each main page has unique titles, a unique image, unique titles and descriptions, and unique text at the top, perhaps Google thought this was some sort of blackhat, doorway page technique? I don't see how, but I guess it's possible. 3.) Most of the content is syndicated. Again, I'd be surprised if this were it, as there are still a dozen or more original articles authored by myself. 4.) The Key phrase 'Credit Cards' is repeated too many times? It's possible with the syndicated content on each page that there could be too many occurances of this key phrase, flagging the site as being 'spammy'. 5.) Google discovered that I purchased some high PR one way backlinks, and submitted to a few hundred directories and word clouds. If this is the reason, it would be the first time out of a dozen or more sites I've done this for. That's about everything I can think of. Anyone have any idea of why this site might have been removed from google?
I think its normal for the site to get disappeared for some days.. its been happening to my sites too.. (New Sites) but it gets cached again!
Looks as if your website has not done anything wrong so I guess there is nothing to worry about! Should be back up and running in no-time! NashTax AnotherLaugh.com
Ok, so since no one has any ideas why this site has dissapeard from google, do you think I should buy a new domain, move the site, and start over? Or should I just wait and see if it comes back? If I wait, how long?
No, after 14 days of being completly dropped from google, I parked this domain, purchased another, and moved everything over.
I would never change my domain just because Google penalises it. If you believe in your business then it will make money if you are in Google or not. I have a site where I hardly get any traffic from Google anymore and it is 5 years old. Last October it had around 70,000 uniques from google, but I am still going to leave the site as it is and keep working on it. Infact it is still my main site. How I see it is that if you keep changing a sites domain then you will never grow. People get use to a domain and will start typing it into their browser plus the longer you have the domain the more branding it will get.
All of those are (poor) techniques. Why not just build a shit-hot site, and get some proper SEO in there? Much easier, and you won't get banned. Btw, pretty much all of those are things that will get your rankings penalised. You're trying to rank in a league where your site doesn't belong, as it's not the best for the search consumer. Sort out the site, and sort out your SEO. If you want a hand, drop me an email
The site looks fine to me. Not everyone can get a site up and running like Myspace or Youtube, lol. Maybe there were something wrong with your code, or you didn't have enough backlinks or you have alot of duplicate content with the same design as someone else.
I'm not sure I'd classify any of my bullets ' techniques'. As I've said, this site was mostly an expirament in uilding a sydication site, that updates automatically, and seeing if I could build some organic traffic from it, and convert visitors to clicks in the Ad Sense Ads. It's an automatically updating, zero maintenance, high conversion money maker. I've built several other sites in this vein. See the following for some even better examples of sites I've built that are similar. www.securitysoftwarestop.com www.softwarekiddies.com Yes, I know that some of the things I've done *could* impact the PR ranking, and the index ranking. However, I fail to see why it would be flat out BANNED from google altogether. I'm nearly 100% positive it's been banned, and I'm just looking for a reason why. Not becuase I value the site much, but because I want to know why. I've built and promoted dozens of other sites, and I'm reasonably well versed in SEO. In fact, if you take a look ath the SEO I've done to this site, you'll see that I've done more than most in this regard. The SEO is not the problem in my mind. But being flat out de-listed form google is something I've never seen before, on any of my sites. I've seen it happen before, but always for sites that have used obvious black hat techniques.
Ummm, I don't know if it was the first or 2nd site, but it said something like: "Where undergoing maintainance" visit later sort of thing. I see a few sites that do this. Why some do it I know, like PayPal, does it, but then they have to do it I guess. But if you have a content site, then there is not much reason to do it and if Google crawls your site during this time then they will just index the homepage and all the rest will go into supplemental as Google will think that they are not there anymore as google will not be able to find them as there will be no links linking to them from the homepage. I have never done anything like this. If I need to update my site then I do it offline with a little testing and then upload it by over-writing my existing files so that there is no downtime.
Give it some time (1-2 weeks). This type of thing happens from time to time. I'd only worry if you dropped from the index for an extended period of time.