How do you know if you are banned?

In Yahoo if you have only 1 (or less) pages indexed (except for brand new sites) it is generally believed that there is some sort of ban on your site.

How do you know in Google if you are banned?

Does Google keep the pages from a banned site in its index? (site:www.site.com)

 

I just use http://www.whois.sc to see if a site is banned

 

There is a difference between a ban and a penalty by both google and yahoo - although both can give you the same results. I have had some sites which have gone from having thousands of visitors per month referred to zero- yet the sites remained fully indexed and the bots visited daily. A penalty isn't permanent and depending on what triggered it, it can be lifted in as little as 2-3 weeks if you fix what was causing. I still can't be sure what was done to get the penalties in my situation, but I didn't rank for even for the most obsure keywords- and this happened on sites which were over 5 years old. I changed everything I thought could have caused it and eventually traffic returned. Nothing I was doing was considered "black hat SEO (hidden text, redirects, cloaking, etc) and probably had something to do with over optimization - either too many links too fast, or something on page with keywords (which I fixed with gif's since the wording was really necessary).

 

as long as one page indexed then you are not banned
but i think you should contact the guys over there, sometime you can punished for something you don't know

 

where does it say if the site is banned or not?

 

Let say your domain name is xyz.com. Check by entering http://www.whois.sc/xyz.com in your browser address bar.

Look under the flag. If a site is banned, it will say so and when you click it, would give you the reason (spam etc)

 

How would whois.sc know if you are banned from G?

 

Who told you this stuff.