8 days ago I bought the domain <url removed> through godaddy premium domains and I think it might be banned by google- is there any way to know for sure? I have 301 redirected my other 2 domains <url removed> and <url removed> to it 8 days ago and as of yesterday my web presence entirely dissapeared. I was getting 200 unique hits per day at <url removed> that were being forwarded to <url removed> and now I am getting 0 and none of my content is searchable... I submitted a reconsideration request to google but it says it could take 2 weeks for them to look at it... It seems like pulling back the 301 redirect at this point might be a further setback since it's already been in for over a week. Also in Google webmaster tools I uploaded a new site map 4 days ago and it's still "pending download" and apparently nothing is happening with the new domain... In Google webmaster tools the crawler diagnostics show that google has been crawling the site for roughly the past week but nothing seems to be indexed or web searchable. Any suggestions?
Looks like it was banned and they removed the ban for me because the "submit for reconsideration" link is no longer showing up in webmaster tools and I sent them up a new sitemap and it worked instantly... It shows 0 pages indexed but I think within a few days I will be showing up in search results again. Whew! Wish I would have noticed it was banned the day I bought it though instead of waiting 8 days for everything to dissapear from search...
If ban != penalty then you find that out, when you search for the domain-name. "banned domains" rank bad for their own name.