Hi, I lost traffic from google since September 16. When I do the site: operator, my site is not listed. But when I do the link: operator, I still saw the backlinks to my site. The pagerank for the site is also there. (I got pagerank of 1). I then logged in to google webmasters tools, and notice that google is still crawling my site (last time was september 19). If my site got sandboxed, won't my site still shows when I did the site: operator ? Based on these data, is my site banned by google ? Is there such thing as temporary ban by google ? I read on some forums, some people lost traffic for couple of days and then got their traffic back. Thanks,
Search for your site like http://www.domain.com/ and if it shows no results, your site is banned. Contact google using webmaster tools to get reconsideration. Good luck!
No. Your site is not banned from Google. It happens to most of us. Don't worry about this.. just work hard on your site content and build some backlinks, submit articles to digg,etc and your site'll be back in a few days.
Try find your site info that Google still has by using "info:" operator. For example : info:achmadz.blogspot.com
skip putting the http: in the google search Just search www.site.com ... I notice google's backlink search isnt working