How do you tell if a domain is banned in Google?

[crick]

I am buying this site. Its an arcade games site. It has no listings or links in Google but does do in MSN and Yahoo. I was wondering if it could be banned in Google. How would you be able to tell?

[nippi]

ask google?

[coosblues]

And give the Wayback Machine a try, and see what the site previously looked like - it may help a bit.

[ogletree]

First type the domain into google. If it shows up there even just as a url it is probably not a ban. If it is not there then do "www.domain.com" with quotes. If you see links to it and it did not show up at all before it has a ban.

You may be able to get it reincluded.

[internetheaven]

Does it have Pagerank and is it cached by Google?

[pmkpmk]

Google is currently transforming the "Google Sitemaps" into some kind of "webmaster dashboard". From the mere submitting of sitemaps, you can now get all kinds of information about the "status of the site according to Google". One of the most beneficial recent additions is a warning if the site got penalized. Google is NOT offering this information to notorious spammers, but webmaster who have tripped the occasional spam-trap might get such a warning together with the option to issue a reinclusion request.

Notification of violations of the webmaster guidelines
We may use the summary page to tell you if a site has violated the webmaster guidelines so you can correct the problems and request reinclusion.

Source: Official Sitemaps Blog [sitemaps.blogspot.com]

So, get the current siteowner to submit his site to Google sitemaps, and you MIGHT see an answer there. You can even create the sitemap entry yourself, but the current owner needs to cooperate in terms of placing the validation file onto the site. Without validation, you can't see the advanced stats.

The Google sitemaps interface can be found here: [google.com...]

[edit]Additional sitemaps info[/edit]

[edited by: pmkpmk at 9:56 am (utc) on May 15, 2006]

[nippi]

mmn.

i'd still ask google.

They will say

[Dayo_UK]

>>>i'd still ask google.

>>>They will say

I am not sure they will.

[pmkpmk]

I'm pretty sure they won't :-)