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I've come to the conclusion that I've been Blacklisted or at least heavily penalized because I have a PR0 and only show up in Google if I search for my own domain.
In addition, Googlebot hasn't visited at all this month.
I'm not sure why - I'm certainly no spammer or manic salesman. Maybe it was some over enthusiastic use of keywords in my titles - I can't be sure.
In your experince what is the likelihood of regaining a position and visits from Googlebot, or am I washed up?
Thanks.
If you get results for "site:yoursite.com -ffdf" you're definetly still in. Do you have a grey PR bar or is it white? Since when is it like that?
there's really only a 90 day penalty or "ban" on domains, and it's applied manually
wrong. There are also automatic penalties for crosslinking out there. Duplicate content is also some kind of automated penalty.
There are also longer-lasting penalties for example if you put p0rn stuff on your site and try to get traffic by keywords mostly used by children.
There are penalties, but you can still find your url in the index somehow. It's a manual ban that is put on.
ThomasB the bar is completely white. I altered the titles mid to late January and in the latest update around February 2, I seemingly dropped out of the index until I searched for the domain.
If I've only incurred a penalty and not an all-out ban, how can I re-trigger Googlebot visits?
Thanks again.
What was your PR before, was it just the homepage that was in the index before or more of the site, and how many links do you have pointing to the site?
The site doesn't appear *anywhere in SERP's, and it's heavily alt tag/title tag optimized. (Could be trouble)
Is there a search i can use to see if the site is _anywhere at all_ inside Google's SEERp's of any kind.. .?
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>>What was your PR before, was it just the homepage that was in the index before or more of the site, and how many links do you have pointing to the site?
I don't know what the PR was (!) I only downloaded the toolbar when things went wrong (In the past I've mainly done non profit stuff). It's possible that it could have been 0.
Only the index page was listed. I only had a few external links and they are no longer listed in the link: .
Overall, the most disconcerting thing is the way Googlebot has stopped visiting. To me that is a very bad sign.
My site's gone, too.. I used the site:mysite.com -ffdf search and found all the pages
Then your site isn't gone, just bad ranked. Try to get better content, links and read the Florida/Austin threads and try to get some solutions for the filters applied in these updates.
