Blog gets banned

WP Blog site blocked due to cloaking!

[manjitr]

Hi,
I just set a blog site using WordPress. I downloaded the blog software and a theme and did a little alteration to to display adsense code in it. Suddenly my site disappears from Google and upon requesting Google to find out what happened they say that the site has been blocked because it did not meet quality standards. They did not give me an exact reason but hinted on cloaking. There are no other web pages created by myself in the site.

So my question: Has anyone using WordPress been banned from Google? Is wordpress creating cloaked pages?

Also I have a sitemap extension added to wordpress but all the urls listed by the sitemap generator are valid.

[Kufu]

The email you received is just a standard reply which they send out to any inquiry; by no means does it mean that your site was removed for any of the violations listed in the email.

[manjitr]

Well the first email I got from Google said that it was an automated message and I was asked to read through their website first and reply again if I did not find an answer. So I read through forums and their website but no luck. I did a site: search on google, and inurl: search and tried typing my domain directly into Google but no results were found unlike 2 months ago.

So I replied back to them again. And I recieved another email 3 days later without the line "this is an automated message" and they say my site has been blocked becuase it did not meet quality standards.

[CainIV]

No offense, but they probably didn't want another fly by nite blog site with adsense code on it would be my guess...they probably have enough of those already

[Pico_Train]

Yes, the fly by nights... Another great example of a way your competitor can create 10,000,000 blogs all linking to your site to bring tumbling down.

Please blog responsibly.

MABL - Moms against blogging and linking.

[manjitr]

But it's all legit content. Most of the content I post there is original, like gadget reviews, howto's, etc.

[tedster]

Here's a list of links to threads you can work through for ideas:

Resources: For Sudden Problems In Google Ranking [webmasterworld.com]

[outland88]

If the content has any real value why not step up to paid hosting.

[abates]

outland: wordpress is a blogging software package, not a free blog hosting site. I have an installation on my (paid hosting) site. AFAIK it doesn't create any cloaked pages...

[Kufu]

After reading through this thread again, I ended up checking up on a blog that I have on a personal site (no ads), and the blog is no longer in the Google index. Interesting!

They may be targetting blogs which may seem to exist simply for creating links.

[theBear]

Kufu,

But the blog on the site in your profile still produces results in a site:example.com inurl:blog ;-).

[Kufu]

theBear,

I'm not too worried about that site, as it is just a hobby site, but I am enjoying the attention it is getting. Most of my traffic started from that silly tutorial I put on there.

Back to the topic at hand: It wouldn't be surprising if Google took a stab at solving blog spam like they addressed the directory sites during Jagger.

[manjitr]

thanks for your replies and like abates said this is set up on a paid hosting. I have other sites (not blogs) on the same server which are rising in Google which outrules the possibility that it is on a blacklisted IP.

[outland88]

I am very impressed with the blog side of Google when it comes to abuse. I filed a DMCA complaint a year ago, for the blog area, and Google is still aggressively protecting my trademarks and copyrights. It seems almost automated. You’d be surprised at the types of abuse they go after and how minor you might think it is. They seemed to know all the tricks and then some. They're slick.

Since there was no mention originally about paid hosting I think many people thought of free blogs.