Not in Google search results

I have some websites that back in December and January were on Google's 1st and 2nd page of the search results. Since then they've disappeared, I mean now they don't even show up when I enter mydomain.com into the SEARCH BOX. Does this mean it's been delisted and not indexed anymore or is it in the sandbox (registered in Dec and Jan)?

Should I wait on them since they were once ranking well, or should I change the content and try optimizing it for Yahoo and MSN?

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If you don't see your site by entering your domain name then it may be a red signal for your site. It may be possible that your site got banned from Google. Did you checked the pages indexed in Google? Just try this command in Google "site:yourdomainname.com" and check.

 

Good grief! Over 5 dozen sites and none of them are showing up

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Maybe try submitting something to digg, if you dont get indexed consider yourself in sandbox or banned

 

best of luck, but like the above said... if you search your domain and nothing comes up you are banned from google :/

try searching your self on yahoo?

 

Thanks for the replies.

Like I said it was listed, so it's not a matter of getting indexed, but whether or not it's not showing because it's sandboxed or banned. It seems that it's been banned then I guess. Some domains show up on Yahoo and MSN, but it's note same as Google.

The only thing that I can think of that caused the ban was linking to many similar URL's in the sitemap. I guess that "user experience" thing.

Oh well, live and learn I guess

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can you provide the site url, you can know if its banned or not by checking if your home page is indexed or not.

 

Google will never, i say never penalize a website for submitting a sitemap. I am not marking this up, They themselves say it.

Your ban should be as a result of something else, not because of sitemap.

 

You've never seen my sitemap then

Seriously, there was a LOT of similar URL's to the same product, multiple times.

The only other thing that might have caused it was linking back to itself, in otherwords a link on the homepage to the homepage. But MSN seems to like it and Google itself ranked it high at first, unless it was reported by someone and manually checked. But I've seen it on numerous Wordpress sites that the header links back to the homepage.

Those are the only things that might have triggered it.

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Most of the times this happens when your site is penalized for spamming or is reported for illegal content. However, you should keep in mind that it could also happen because of a band robots.txt

 

Why don't you list some of those URLs and the keywords they ranked for then people can actually offer you some useful advice? People cannot tell you what is wrong with your site(s) if they do not know which site you are talking about. All you are going to get without exposing your URLs are wild guesses.

My guess is that if you have 50 domains, they are thin affiliate sites. One page of content + contact us + terms of service + privacy policy + sitemap does not a "good" site make in Google's eyes. Google doesn't like these, and if their Quality Raters stumble on to them or if someone reports them, Google will quietly bury them in the SERPs or deindex the site.