I just worked on a site that was dropped from Google's index. I took out the black SEO stuff (wasn't me!) and submitted a request for re-inclusion. Now, does anybody have experience with this process and got some feedback from Google?
I have done two inclusion requests previously. In the first case, I think it was a mistake on Google's part. The second case was with a site that contained a lot of pages of less than original content. I made some improvements, and did the the reinclusion request. In both cases it took a month or two, and then I was back in the results. They did not reply to me in any way, and as I understand it they never tell you, they just include it in their own time.
You have to read Google's replies very carefully and lot between the lines. Overall the process sucks - especially if you do not know why a site was banned in the first place. I am still having one site that I am not getting back into Google and I have no idea why. No blackhat, original content, static pages - and Google is just not helpful at all. Christoph
create a new on with something totally different and hope that Googles algo likes you because if it doesn't you're not going to make it in. Reinclusion requests are a waste of time!
Seconded, they are a waste of time. For me, a reinclusion request got the index page of a site back into google (five months ago), and a lovely email from them that the engineers had looked at it, there was no longer a problem, the site was not banned etc (I had bought a domain not knowing it had previously been owned and expired). Five months on they have never indexed a single other page in the site. My query about it on Matt Cutts 'reinclusion' blog was deleted and Google decline to discuss the matter further. Happily MSN, Yahoo and visitors rate it highly. Forget about reinclusion requests, get a different domain if at all practical.
I'm going through this now. Site dropped completely, no index, nothing. PR went from 6 to N/A. No blackhat, was a legitimate site. I used the coop on it, but I can't imagine it being dropped for that when so many still say they have good results with it. I submitted a reinclusion about 4-5 weeks ago. Received the usual autoresponse email with links back to the site and if that didn't fix it, to reply to the email. I did. A few days later, the front page showed back up in the index and the PR restored to PR6. No internal pages have been added to the index since then. Only the site index page remains.
during the last fluctuations, my site went from 850 to 1 page, and stabilized there for about a month now. lately, it has no pages at all in google.com and no cache. however the homepage is still indexed and cached in all other datacenters. still has PR. it has many links coming from link-vault (many irrelevant) I started to remove them slowly. do I have to take action right away or wait and see
It seems that you often have to wait 2 updates (6 months). First you get your index page reindexed. Second they start spidering normally. With no feedback, I agree it is really hard sometimes to know exactly what went wrong.
I purchased a domain name in August (on godaddy), created my own, very unique content (it's a web site raising awareness about our community), created/submitted to google sitemap, established few (less than a dozen) but good quality links to it from other (reputable) sites and have been observing google bot visiting me at least once a day, every single day since August.... however, the site wouldn't appear in google search results at all... you could plug in the web site (domain) name - and nothing would show up... searching for community name (very unique) would result in google displaying only 4 pages of search results - all of which would be local realtores referencing our community, yet, my site, full of information about the community - wasn't there. After reading a couple of threads on this forum describing similar situations I decided to give it a shot. Two days ago I submitted re-inclusion request where I explained, that the fact that my site isn't showing up in google searches is making me to believe that previous owners must have done something which resulted in the domain name being banned by google (even though, the history on archive.org didn't reveal much of activity on this domain). This morning (only two days after I submitted my request) the site is at the top on google when one searches for the community name. Just wanted to share.
Well, after approximately one year of trying - multiple emails and just 2 months ago I used the reinclusion process in Google's Webmaster Tools. ... The site is back in Google in its proper positions. Indexing is getting better by the day too.
I never did. As a matter of fact, I knew nothing about SEO until recently, when I began to wonder why is my site not search'eable on google.