Ok guys.. So here is the story, I bought a domain off of someone for $2,000 last friday (august 8th) that ranked very well for a few of my keywords. Here is the site - Site I Bought - Well now it is August 14th, some 6 days later, and my site got BANNED and is now deindexed???? I have literally done 4 things to it since I have bought the domain (as I was about to upload a brand new website template and content for the home page) 1) I changed the adsense to mine 2) I changed the autoresponder to mine (capture name&email) 3) Installed a blog - (Blog here) 4) (this might be the reason but shouldnt be from what i know) - is that the domain was with namecheap, and hosting was as well, well i switched the hosting to godaddy and the website was down for 16 hours ... but i wouldnt think that would result in a google ban? I have not even begun getting new links to it or anything of that nature. It ranked on the 2nd page for two highly competitive keywords with over 300 Million SERPS.. Please give me advice .. you can see when you go to google and type site:www.domain.com - Here that a weird thing comes up as ?wsnet on the end of the home page URL .. im baffled, stunned, and completely stunned by this ... I bought this website through paypal with my credit card .. I have not been able to get ahold of the guy at all today (since i learned about the ban) Please give me suggestions, advice, or what to do next???? I am LOST and out of $2,000 at the moment!
why try to get ahold of the seller? he can't control google that really sucks that google is doing that anyways, I had it happen to a few of my sites that were down for a few days because of some hackers that really messed up the servers and it took almost a week for me to rebuild everything, and then google went and de-indexed my sites!!!! really, really nice, thanks google (and to add even more insult, when I searched google for my site the first result that came up in google was some hacker site that lists all the sites that got defaced) Google has a real problem in the algorithm and it is a shame that you are getting punished like this for no fault of your own
IMHO, If i was you id put everything back just like it was exactly.. except for your own adsense code.. Ive made the same mistake before and learned if its not broke dont fix it..
everything is the same though .. cept the adsense, now godaddy hosting, and autoresponder (which only thing changed their is my info so i now get their info and not him)
your site is alright. But you purchase a 31 pages indexed for 2,000. You may have lost $1,950 i believe. The site's value is probably less than $50 in the market.
I'll look at it some more.... for one thing, that site is only a year old, that is not very old to expect that a site is going to be solid in its serp rankings did you check out the backlinks before you bought it? have they changed since you bought it? it may have lost some links and that would result in a drop in the serps for the keywords that it ranked high for, what page on the site were those keywords linked to? the homepage? or inner pages that you might have changed? if it is true that you haven't removed the pages that were indexed and the backlinks are still intact, then that looks like you can blame google, but otherwise it would be the fault of the pages being removed
Hello... When i checked you where still indexed in google. (their is nothing wrong with the site/domain) EDIT: i see what ya mean but think that is googles fault You have about 33 indexed pages (google) and 63 in (yahoo) which doesnt surprise me as the site is affiliated and probably only has a few pages. I suggest that you spend some money on getting a new professional looking template then after you are done start your backlink building campaigns. Good luck with your new site thx malcolm
Touches93, the site was ranked on the 2nd page for 2 very important keywords to me. Work At Home - The site was ranked #14 Work From Home - The site was ranked #16 Canam - Yes the site is only about 14 months old. As far as I can see the backlinks have not changed at all. The only page that was getting links mainly was the homepage
Malcolm1 - yes i do have a professional design ready to upload with brand new content and the blog installed as i was going to push this to about a 100 page site in the next month .. but now it is banned and deindexed?????
eniva - I only have one thing to tell you... that site is NOT banned by google. It's indexed and in google's cache. You're freaking out over something that's not true. It is possible that google sandboxed you, maybe because there was a change of ownership so they just dropped your ranking until you prove them that the site will continue as it was before. You are definitely not banned. If you lost your SERP, then you have been sandboxed.
Listen........ why do you insist on saying this? (am i wrong here? does someone see something else ) Did you not read what i said or do you just want to go on about this issue knowing that the site is ok? thx malcolm
Hi even i feel this site is perfectly placed. It seems to be properly indexed. Go ahead with the expansion... i dont think it should cause a problem
the site is not banned, as muncle said, it might be sandboxed, but it might just have lost its serp position for any number of reasons, google serps shift around all the time never buy something assuming that the serps will stay the way they are, you can gamble that they will, but it is not a guarantee
So what im getting back from everyone is that the site is basically sandboxed and lost its SERPs (as of right now) and to continue as planned with this site as if nothing had changed?
Sandbox will be lifted sooner or later. If a relevant authority site linked you, you'd see thesandbox lift very soon, otherwise it could take few months. If you're able to give google what it likes to see - fresh content and natural link growth, your site will be ranking high agan.
Ok .. I will continue as planned .. can anyone explain what the ?wsnet is on the end of it when you type site:domain in google?
there must be a backlink(s) out there that uses that ?wsnet link he could have set it up as a way of passing a referrer variable to the site so he could tell that the visitor to the site was arriving from that link
Ok so the thing I got out of most of this is that site is not banned, just basically sandboxed .. Where do you guys suggest I get good quality links from (free, paid, quality directories) Any type of lists would be well appreciated to getting my site back on track!
Also, for those of you who think I am "sandboxed" I thought being sandboxed means you dont rank for major keywords, but you should still rank on the long tail and DEFINITELY for your own domain. Here's how I look at domains ... As soon as you become indexed by Google, you will rank #1 for your domain - "onlinescamsuncovered.com" as a search should bring you up as #1 without question especially after the site is over a year old! An inclusion search shows that you are included in the index, but as I said, a search for "onlinescamsuncovered.com" doesnt show your homepage in the first 3 results or pages