Site banned from SERPS - Why?

Discussion in 'Websites' started by nsusa, Jun 9, 2006.

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    Last September one of my sites got removed from Google's SERPS with the Jagger Update and has not recovered since then. I pretty much followed every hint, every lead I could find. I made changes, made reinclusion requests, made more changes, another reinclusion request - nothing.

    The site has not been promoted in a spammy way nor have I tried BlackHat SEO techniques - at least not knowingly.

    The site had a directory once and I charged for listings and I thought that would be considered selling PR - I removed the directory and initiated a reinclusion request. Still noting. I am at a loss.

    The site has PR; the site has pages listed when doing a site:example.com. Some of the results are supplemental though.

    Anyone here willing to take a look and let me know what you think is causing the site to be punished/banned by Google?

    URL: highlandsranch.us
    Keywords to search for in Google:
    highlands ranch
    highlands ranch colorado

    The site used to rank somewhere on the first 3 pages of the SERPS. The last time I found it, it was on page 100+something.

    Thanks.

    Christoph
     
    nsusa, Jun 9, 2006 IP
  2. davert

    davert Banned

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    Very nice site. HOWEVER --

    1) Every page uses the same keyword list, and it is LONG and a lot of the keywords don't seem to be on the pages.
    2) You have LOTS of excess html code in there - you could just add the table definitions to css and cut your page length into a third of what they are
    3) Do all pages use the same titles?

    I think the keyword lists are getting you. Also, putting the actual kjeywords into the h1 or h2 headers would help.
     
    davert, Jun 9, 2006 IP
  3. nsusa

    nsusa Peon

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    Thanks.

    Reply to your

    #1:
    The list is long but only because of two words making one keyword - or is that itself a bad thing? Example: Hacienda Colorado is the name of a restaurant. Overall this is less than 20 keywords.

    #2:
    Good point from a load time standpoint. But would that really be an issue that Google would ban the site?

    #3:
    I think all pages have the same title. I'll give that a try + the keywords/H1/H2 header inclusion.

    Christoph
     
    nsusa, Jun 9, 2006 IP