Ah ok thanks. Another thing I just noticed! My site is still in the google cache: http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache...cal+gabriella+montez&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=8 Is it possible I wasn't banned then?
Is it possible that the site was down when the bots crawled and Google will put it back in the index once they crawl again? My host (a company called dreamhost) has been very unreliable.
Honestly: no, I don't believe it. Otherwise there would be a suggestion to visit your url directly when searching for it. I believe you or someone working on your site has done something, maybe followed some ill advice and got labelled as a spammer. Many sites have been banned these days without the webmasters knowing why. The best thing is to be very passive SEO wise, unless of course you know what you're doing
I don't have anyone working for me and I haven't engaged in any SEO other than installing mediawiki and using mod_rewrite to make the urls be the name of the article. Does google make mistakes in its banning algorithm? I ask this because adwords reps have made mistakes before and disabled my ads when they shouldn't have. After complaining to them Google acknowledged the mistake and then reenabled the same ads that another representative had disabled for "violating the TOS". On tvWiki, the only thing I can think of that might have raised SEO flags is the interwiki links at the end of some articles. These are there because mediawiki displays them when foreign language articles don't yet exist. And Google doesn't ban wikipedia (although wikipedia shouldn't be displaying them since people only add the links to articles that exist)! After thinking about this i'm wondering if google thought it was keyword stuffing, but I doubt this since each title is the title in a different language and I'm guessing Google should only penalize actual stuffing. I was also thinking google might ban for duplicate content (some of the wikipedia articles haven't been changed yet, but I know there are tons of Wikipedia mirrors that google likes. It would be a royal pain to remove all these interwiki links however, and I don't know if it was a problem.
Its a month old. Thats why I think over 200,000 mentions of the site must have raised a flag. Is this enough for a ban nowadays though?
It shows just 8 on my end, http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&lr=&sa=G&q="www.tvwiki.tv" The others seem to be mostly about similar sites/pages from what I see.
But when you click on repeat the search with the omitted results included it comes up with 222,000. From what I can see all these pages do mention this site.
I clicked for the ommitted results but could only see up to result #33 (4 pages in total). I have often noticed this strange behaviour, but do not understand it... Pages 1-3 still show that there is more than 4 pages of results but once I click page 4 that's it, no more pages.
Yeah this seems really weird. Is it possible that there is a bug in Google or does this point to some other cause for my site to no longer be in google? Also, I still haven't received any response from Google. Does anyone here have any connections to someone there who might be able to help me fix this? By the way, I appreciate your responses.
Is this the possible cause of being delisted?: http://www.tvwiki.tv/w/index.php?ti...d=36512&diff=31257405&oldid=31257403&rcid=313
After telling them about the wiki spammers, Google has added my site back to their index but they now have only 2 pages indexed. odd....