I want to know what are penalities imposed to website by Google if website is not more than a scraper website. Just 1 month old . What are your recommendations?
There are penalities and there are bans. Bans can last forever, minor penalties like hidden text take about 30 days from when you correct it.... According to Matt's posts, some penalties take longer. It really depends on what is done. I don't know if this is considered a penalty, but one of the first sites I made used a javascript dropdown menu and it used 1 pixel gifs linked to the same urls that were in the menu so the robot could follow them. During this last update, google removed the PR of the pages with the 1 pixel gifs so I had to redo the menu to remove the javascript.
If a site is removed from the index, does that mean it is banned? How do you tell the difference between a ban and a penalty?
I am referring to websites which are scrapers like http://www.getbestinfo.com How google react to them? Remove Indexings ?
Not necessarily If a google search for your website name brings up your site, then I believe you are not banned.
Just ask Google if you are penalized, they'll probably tell you, albeit with a form letter that will make you guess what is wrong. I emailed Google using Matt Cutt's suggestion and I thought I might have a penalty and they emailed me back saying I was not penalized for anything. That should be your first step.
Well my site is not found anymore, it's probably banned? I don't even have meta tags or did any SEO work on it, can't believe it's banned!
My site was taken off google for this last update. Every keyword including the title of the website was nowhere to be found. Then last night all went back to normal. So, only fret if you're not reindexed in 2-3 weeks.
Go to Google and enter: site: www.yourwebsite.com If it returns your link, you're not banned, just getting bad rankings. If you get: Your search - site:www.yourwebsite.com - did not match any documents. Then you may have a problem. I doubt you're banned unless you did something horrific (cloaking, linking to bad sites, etc.). Ian
I've got the same thing, a 5 year old site updated once a month no particular seo work done on it , Loads of unique content and a complete database of the TT results from 1907 to 2004 lot's of back links from respected sites in the same niche was pr 3 now not even on google...
in my case it's start at march/april and still site is under penalty (so 5-6 months) and unfortunately i cann't understand the reason of this . :-(
Did you file a recinclusion request with google after you removed anything not allowed in their guildlines? Also, many sites that have done nothing wrong have lost their one top rankings so it is possible that you just aren't ranking well because of the new algorithm- not because of any existing penalty.
>>Did you file a recinclusion request with google after you removed anything not allowed in their guildlines? yes, i did no, i don't think such. btw 3 days ago google dropped my pr from PR 5 to Pr 0. but site still in G db, indexed pages (~130K, with a lot of supplemental page marks) the only that i notice this month is that starting the 1 oct. still now google visit site, but didn't do deep indexation (250mb) march-sept. 1-1.5gb, before this 3-4gb t
I think I may have too many IBL too quickly, could that trigger a ban? I thought banning is manually done?
I had to sites before the update that were on the first page on google for a very competitive phrase. After the update It does not show up on mcdar for that keyword but shows up for secondary words around 300-400. Is this a penalty for just the one phrase. And what would be the reason?
so, linking to bad sites is bad, obviously. but how can i know if it's a bad site i'm linking to? what should i look for or try to avoid?
If your website is not indexed then i think this is the biggest penality imposed by Google to any website. If you will lose your indexes you will lose visitors and ultimately customers. And Google is backbone of internet searches.