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>>...but not in the removal of your web page from our index...<<
Google wrote to me the following: (pay attention to "blocked" and "removal" words used in the letter)
"Your page has been blocked from our index because it does not meet the quality standards necessary to assign accurate PageRank. We cannot comment on the individual reasons your page was removed. However, certain actions such as cloaking, writing text in such a way that it can be seen by search engines but not by users, or setting up pages/links with the sole purpose of fooling search engines may result in permanent removal from our index."
This is a confusing message. As quoted above in Google Fact: "This may result in blocked access to Google from your IP address, but not in the removal of your web page from our index."
I'm confused. Either my site is blocked or it is removed. Which one is it? Can you please clarify?
when google blocks an IP address they are blocking anyone from that ip address from performing search queries on google. no sites get blocked from anything in this case, but a users specific ip address is blocked from being able to use google to search.
when google removes a site from their index, they are taking the site out of the google search results. This means nobody will be able to find your site searching through google.
I think google should tell folks exactly what they did wrong for having their site removed. Even the cops have to tells you what you did wrong when you're being arrested and what you're charged with.
I think Google's guideline and policies are very vague. For example, with regard to cloaking, I am cloaking my affiliate merchant's link to protect my interest and not to present Googlebot with a different page than other users will see or to mislead my visitors.
The same IP address is shared among many websites. Is it possible also that google could be blocking my server's IP (therefore my site) because another person who uses the same server had spammed SE?
I think google should tell folks exactly what they did wrong for having their site removed. Even the cops have to tells you what you did wrong when you're being arrested and what you're charged with.
bad analogy. A cybercop isn't going to explain to the hacker who was just caught how they caught them, in technical terms. Then any other hacker would known, and be able to circumvent the cybercop in the future.
I think Google's guideline and policies are very vague. For example, with regard to cloaking, I am cloaking my affiliate merchant's link to protect my interest and not to present Googlebot with a different page than other users will see or to mislead my visitors.
Google doesn't care about your site, though it expects that you might care about google. If you do, and you want traffic from them, you play by their rules, just like any private club.
There have been many lengthy discussions on the topic of legitimate uses of cloaking (there certainly are many) - but it still comes down to the same thing in the end, if google didn't penalize on policy the act of displaying different info to a user than to the bot, we would live in a world without quality search results.
The same IP address is shared among many websites. Is it possible also that google could be blocking my server's IP (therefore my site) because another person who uses the same server had spammed SE?
technically: yes
likely: no
but it's a bad idea to share an ip address with someone else if you're planning on relying on google traffic. get your own ip.
Google rarely, but surely, bans ranges of domains that they have found full of junk. Even entire class C's could be done away with... but they'd likely have a good reason.
Google wouldn't ban an IP first, they would remove a domain first. Google works logically, always presume that first.
