Banned domain in google

How to recognize them.

[sifredi]

I bought my first banned domain, and this is how google handled it:

I bought the domain and put up about 500 pages on the site. After roughly one week, the front page was indexed. Then it took only 24 hours before it was gone again. Fair enough - I thought it was the usual fluctuation, so I waited a couple of weeks for it to get re-indexed. Nothing. Waited another month - nothing. I searched around and found a couple of blacklists with blocked email addresses from the domain I just bought. So, someone has been spamming with my new domain, making it highly possible that google and others banned it from the serps.

What is intersting is the way google displays banned domains versus unregistrered/no-content domains. Here is what is says when you search for "domain.com" if it is banned:
Sorry, no information is available for the URL domain.com
* Find web pages that contain the term "domain.com"

And here is how it looks if not banned:
Sorry, no information is available for the URL domain.com
* If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: domain.com
* Find web pages that contain the term "domain.com"

I just thought I'd share this.

[sfatih]

Thanks a lot for sharing. I have a domain droped from SERPs lately and it fits the picture you give.

Can anybody else confirm this?

[ncw164x]

yes exactly as I see it for the names I have had banned

[sfatih]

I have couple questions if you don't mind.

Is there way to learn why a domain got banned and is it possible to have it reincluded after getting rid of that problem?

When a domain is banned, do you keep on getting traffic from Google for let's say more than a month or does the traffic stop completely in a short time?

[bhartzer]

You won't really get a definitive answer as to why a domain was banned. Google just won't tell you. But, you can ask for a reinclusion request.

[ncw164x]

When a domain is banned, do you keep on getting traffic from Google for let's say more than a month or does the traffic stop completely in a short time?

Er not really, if you check your site stats when you get banned your traffic goes to zero straight away from that search engine.

You will still get visitors to your site either typing in your domain name in a browers window or clicking from their favorites and also from other search engines, but seeing as google is the main source of most sites traffic you will see a significant drop in traffic when a site is removed from the google database.

Not very nice having a hand removal but there you go...

It's time's like this to make drastic changes to your site, leave it a couple of months after the ban and contact them asking for a reinclusion, but don't hold your breath while you wait

[sfatih]

Actually I get this banned-style message only for the main page, the inner pages show up when I type their addresses in Google. But my main page is nowhere and is also "dropped" from the Google directory although it is still in DMOZ.

Would anybody be kind enough to make a comment on what seems wrong if I sticky my address?

[Fomhoire]

Did you take a look on archive.org to see what was on the domain before you acquired it? That may tell you why it was banned.

[sfatih]

I didn't know about that site, looks pretty useful. Thanks for sharing. But it didn't find any results for my domain.

[swoop]

When I type widgets.com into Google, I get:

widgets.com/

Google can show you the following information for this URL:

Find web pages that are similar to widgets.com
Find web pages that link to widgets.com
Find web pages from the site widgets.com
Find web pages that contain the term "widgets.com"

This doesn't match what the original poster gets, and I can't figure out how to get a result anything like the two options he presents.

[Rollo]

I've never had anything banned, but I was wondering...

If a site gets banned on your network, can it effect your other sites? For example, can they use your registry info, IPs, or other info to penalize non-offending sites, but ones obviosuly with the same owner as the offending site?

[nativenewyorker]

Other members at Webmaster World have reported success for getting their Google banned sites reincluded. The method used involved adding a disallow for Googlebot to robots.txt . If you using any questionable SEO methods, make sure you clean them up during the period that you ban Googlebot. After several months (3+) of banning Googlebot, robots.txt was edited to allow Googlebot to crawl the site again.

This was something that I remember reading from forum3, not from personal experience, so if you want to dig deeper, that's a good place to start.

[nativenewyorker]

swoop,

You likely do not have anything to worry about. Some fresh domains that I registered a few days ago show the same thing that you mentioned. I'm certain that those are domains that Google has on a "To Do List".

[sfatih]

swoop, you get a different message because the URL you type is either indexed by Google or it is known and will be indexed. The messages we discussed are for banned or not yet indexed/known by Google domains.

[swoop]

I think I'll put up a little content and see if it gets indexed by G.

[dataguy]

I have 3 domain names that I just got from a recent drop. The names weren't banned before they expired, but according to the search results above, the names are banned now. I can't imagine any of the 3 are really banned, but this must be what G does when a name expires.

Does anyone have any experience that might indicate how long it should take to get these sites indexed again by Google?

[Lorel]

BruceClay has a tool on his Tech Tips page that checks to see if your site has been blacklisted.

[bruceclay.com...]

[otc_cmnn]

Color me stupid but I can't find the blacklist tool on that page.... though I'd love to know where to find one!

[Lorel]

Go to Bruce Clay's Tech Tips page. Scroll down to the "opps your IP is either dirty or virtual" box. Fill in your domain name. Another page will come up. then click on the blacklisted link (USE FIrefox as IE won't work on this page for me). This gives you a long list of sites that can ban your site. If any of them are red your site (or a site on your shared IP) has been blacklisted for spam . If you are on a shared IP address and have not produced any spam and it was the other site that was banned this is easy to resolve by getting a dedicated IP. If it was your site that produced the spam, then you have to do as suggested above and in other threads.

[otc_cmnn]

ahh - I see. This tells you if you are listed in any email spam blocklists but unfortunately doesn't help with the problem at hand which is seeing if your are blacklisted in the SERPs.

Thanks!