Can blocked site be back at Google index?

site disapeared 6 weeks ago

[samuel_ado]

hi,

my site disapeared 6 weeks ago and it... i do not know the reason.. maybe it didn't meet the quality of Google or anything else.. (cause we have had a mistake signing some guestbooks and maybe owner of guestbook reported our site as spamming...etc

What I wonder is blocked sites can be indexing or have to leave it and start working with new site..

our site was #1 and too many competitors... but most of competitors signing guestbooks.. i can see their backlinks...etc

thanks for all

[tigger]

Well I've heard that Google is starting to reply to emails now so maybe it's worth dropping them a line

Although my experience has not been good, so I started with a new domain and it's already back to my old position prior to the domain getting banned, but this time round it's clean :)

[samuel_ado]

really? Google didn't reply when I sent them a message 6 weeks ago... i will send them again.. hope they reply, i think they don't tell the reason... :o( but it will be nice to hear from them if it can be back or not...

so your banned site couldn't be back... right? when did it get banned?

thanks

[tigger]

Nope it just picked up a penalty dropped from PR6 to zero, very upsetting :(

It happened July last year and by September I got fed up waiting for a replies to 3/4 very polite emails, so I built a new site on a new domain and got my rankings back, I'm still struggling to get the PR back to 6 but it's already a PR5

[samuel_ado]

do you know the reason of penalty?
and my-site still cached... so normally it can not be cached if it is banned or what?

[JayC]

my site disapeared 6 weeks ago

and my-site still cached... so normally it can not be cached if it is banned or what?

Samuel, I'm a little confused by what you're saying. If the site "disappeared" and you think it's been "blocked," how are seeing that it's still cached? Do you just mean that it dropping in the rankings, or is it not indexed at all? If you search Google for just the domain name do you find it?

[samuel_ado]

hi..

i am not sure that my site was blocked to banned or whatever... but it is not indexing at google..

so when i search my doing at google then having followin result ;

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Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.mydomain.com

Find web pages that contain the term "www.mydomain.com"
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i can not write my exact domain because of the rule..

can you tell me what it is? blocked or banned or?
it has a gray PR and not indexing at google..
but still cached.. cause when i check "cached page" at google toolbar then i see the page....

thanks

[HenryUK]

The same thing happened to me in the last update. My site went from PR6 to grey PR. In my own case I believe that it was the result of having two similar domains, distinguished only by the suffixes, .co.uk and .com, both of which were pointing to the same site.

The reason that we had two domains was historical, having changed from .co.uk to .com when we moved our coverage beyond the boundaries of the UK (and other branding considerations etc.)

Having spent some time persuading those linking in to switch from .co.uk to .com, needless to say it was the .com site that got switched off - possibly because the .co.uk version is the one listed in DMOZ (despite many requests to them to change this!)

I have seen a number of other sites where the last update did the same thing in similar circumstances, and I understand why.

It is a bit of a long shot, but I wonder if you might be in the same boat ie having more than one version of similar domain names.

Incidentally, I understand that the way to fix this is to put 301 permanent redirect on the "old" URL. In my case I can't do this right now (horribly complicated stuff with the old URL being used by third party sites in POST statements that can't be reliably redirected), but I'm hoping to be able to do so soon.

best of luck

[samuel_ado]

hi Henry,

:o( yeah i had 2 similar web-sites (same content and same design at the begining then i changed one of them but it was too late..... and 2 of them have a gray PR and one of them cached but other didn't....

so will it be back? :o)

thanks

[HenryUK]

I think you had better hope for a reply from someone who has successfully got themselves out of this hole in the past!

I set out what I think the solution might be in my last post, but if you have had a site automatically penalised for being the same as another site that you control, and now they are different again, I would be tempted to start over with new domains.

Depends how many links you have in and how much you have spent on marketing those sites...

Alternatively, you could try emailing Google and hoping...

[webman]

I've been in a similar situation for the past 5-6 months. I have contacted Google and they ensure me that my site has not been banned or penalized, yet with incoming links from all the major directories (ODP, Zeal, Yahoo, Galaxy, GoGuide, JoeAnt, etc.) Googlebot is still unable to find me. In fact, he hasn't visited once since the toolbar went gray.

I've thought about changing my domain name, but it is just too difficult to get the domain name changed in all of the directories and incoming links (took one year just to get listed in ODP). And I can't find another domain name that I am satisfied with.

Anyway, if there are people out there who have come back from the gray PR bar after several months, please let me know.

[The_Hitcher]

Well I came back from a greyed out toolbar and total banishment but had to plead with Google to do it. I have since cleaned my act up and its staying that way. In the general run of things its usually quicker and easier to start again though.

[TheDave]

Yes I had a problem caused by 2 domains or the use of ASP (not sure what actually caused it), and to resolve it I had to email google. They gave me a fairly standard sounding reply, and the next day my site was PR'd again.

[Jesse_Smith]

www.webpronews.com/articles/2003/0218rn.html
shows how one person got his site back in.

[edited by: Marcia at 4:19 am (utc) on Feb. 19, 2003]

[jeremy goodrich]

Dude, you believe that -> I've got some real estate to sell you. :)

[samuel_ado]

Hey hey hey

my web-site came back last week :o)

Thanks for all

Ado