If I made the entire forum PRIVATE for 1 week and then opened it back up for 1 week then closed it for 1 week, could Google BAN my website? What problems could arise? I already know this might irritate members/non-members. I am NOT worried about this, I am more worried about Search engines.....could this hurt the site in ANYWAY? Please help! *Update: If I am already indexed, and then make it private and go back and forth, will this mess up google with them indexing in the future?
hide links on your forums or hide part from thread but i think open and close not good thing to google but if you do this you will not get ban google ban sites to another reasons
I've got a private forum and have never experienced any trouble with google. I know some people hate having to register before viewing but like you I don't care either. If they are generally interested they will sign up It's been changed briefly to private, guest and back to private several times and I've not had any issues
I don't see why they would shelf your site completely...I don't see it helping your rank at all , but hurting it...I don't see.
But I know of a forum that is 99% private and it has a PR3 rank + 378k Alexa rank..............how is THIS!?
Must be a important forum Just because something is private doesn't mean that it's not something people link to. In addition , there's a few forums out there that are still crawled by google, and they're private....I've seen logs on what goes on, and it's quite funny I can find cached private info.
No new site will not be banned and alos if u close the site will effect in trafffic and SE position. but not chancing of banning.. google will ban the sites who did black hat methord or spam methord to boost the site is SE..