I really appreciate if anyone can tell me what is the reason why this site of mine http://www.spiritualandhealth.com/ was banned from google search. All pages that were index were gone. Any tips on how to get sites that banned in google to get index again? How long before request for re-inclusion reviewed. thanks
It must have to do with all the hidden content/links in this section: It's not smart to be hiding stuff....
ohh so that cause the problem , my main reason why I did that is to lessen the space used in the side bar... Thanks for the input
for this, you should remove the hidden content. and resubmit to google. i think your site will come back.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site:+spiritualandhealth.com&btnG=Search Google still showing results, I am doubtful it is banned.
I think it was temporary. Just create and submit a sitemap to Google webmaster tools, it will index again.
In my opinion, i think hiding content is really a bad behavior... but in your case it's a new website and need some time to get trusted by G and link aging for sure. Why don't you just wait and see how it will goes?
Hiding content is definitely a bad idea, Google's crawlers read the source as well as the real content. This will probably cause you to get sandboxed for a bit longer than usual.
My advice is to remove all of hidden contents then wait for a little longer and meanwhile building links while you can. After 1- 2 months, if your site is still not indexed yet, it is considered to be banned. For reinclusion please refer to http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35843
I'd get rid of the 20 articles on the right-hand side that all have similar titles AND I'd get rid of that suspicious footer, (all the stuff after the copyright). The resubmit via webmaster tools.
You must delete all hidden stuff and recreate the sitemap and submit it . Maybe your site get back but it can take few days or weeks also . So don't expect fast results .