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Banned for cloaking

         

michaelbs

12:20 pm on Nov 4, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I have been having a good response to around 250 cloaked pages for around 3 months now, however all these pages that use the NOArchive tag are missing from the latest Google update, the strange thing is that I do not seem to have been banned because my domain name (hompage) are still listed in google? Is there any way which I can find out if my domain name has been banned from Google?
Thanks in advance for any comments..

Brett_Tabke

1:30 pm on Nov 4, 2002 (gmt 0)

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No archive shouldn't be a problem. We thought so early on, but it's proven the test over the last two years. I use it just about everywhere and often cloak it to save the bandwidth.

If you can find your site in Google, then obviously it isn't banned.

It could be just a classic "drop" of pages. There were alot that said they suffered the same this month. What's the toolbar say on the subpages.

michaelbs

2:05 pm on Nov 4, 2002 (gmt 0)

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The toolbar on my sub-pages are showing a pagerank of 3.
From your experience are "droped" pages re-indexed or gone for ever? This was my first attempt at SEO and it created around 3/4 sales a week of a $39.95 product.
What are the normal reasons for the great "Google" to drop your pages anyhow? or does it not need a reason?
Thanks for your reply Brett.

volatilegx

11:25 pm on Nov 4, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Try reworking your cloaked pages to make sure they are different from each other. I believe some cloaked pages I had were dropped because they were too much alike. Some other cloaked pages on the same domain are still doing well after this last update.