trillianjedi - 2:34 pm on Jul 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

The core content of your sites (the real meat on the bone) is complete duplication.

Your navigation, link text etc, has been varied, but the substance (actual content) of each site is identical.

I'll highlight this from googles TOS for you again:-

Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.

Can you honestly answer that you haven't done that?

That question is rhetorical.

I'm not questioning your honesty - the point I wanted to make is to get help from people on this problem, you need to explain everything or you just leave people guessing as to what the problem might be. If you were honest, you were economic with that honesty.

;-)

When "duplicate content" was first suggested by someone above, that's what they meant. It's duplicate content as far as google is concerned, not as far as you are concerned by examining what other people are doing and getting away with.

I don't think all our five sites has sitewide duplicate contents

I can take the back-half of one of your URL's, copy and paste it onto the end of one of your other domains, and land on the same page, with a different header and footer.

I would hazzard a guess that all five sites are running from the same database backend (either one database, or 5 copies of the same database). That database is your core content.

To try and get the thread into more constructive terriotory, and in terms of fixing the problem, I think you should ditch 4 of the sites and concentrate on one.

Once you have done that, and are certain in all other respects that you comply with googles guidelines (I assume you have now read them?), send google an email and request re-inclusion for that one domain.

I'm sure others can make other suggestions also. I've never had this problem, so I don't know the likely outcome I'm afraid.

TJ