runboy - 5:44 am on Aug 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

I have tried opening the following related subject on another thread, but appearently WW moderators did not approve it. If you have pages that does not comply with google webmaster guidelines (duplication content, etc..) and it happened that these pages are very usefull for your users, would banning googlebot via robots.txt from crawling/indexing these pages be enough action before asking for an inclusion request? An example, assume that your site is banned for having an ODP clone, would excluding googlebot from crawling/indexing the ODP section in your site helps removing the ban?

My best guess is not. When you do an inclusion request I don't think they spend much time reading about what you have done. They probably just visit the pages they have listed as problem pages and if they are still there they move on to the next site. I think you are lucky if they spend more than 30 seconds reviewing your site.